Do It Yourself Mr Bean infinitive of purpose practice
Part One: Happy New Year
Try to match the things Mr Bean does and the reason he does them, then watch and check.
He puts some balloons on the door…
He puts some music on…
The hats have letters on them…
He shakes hands..
He cuts up a tree and puts it on a plate…
He puts some sugar in some vinegar..
He steals his neighbour’s birdfeeder…
His guest changes the time on the clock to midnight…
He holds hands with his guests…
He turns off the light…
He takes out another clock…
…to say ‘hello’.
…to represent people’s names.
…to eat the peanuts inside.
…for people to eat.
…to replace the wine.
…to go to sleep.
…to end the party early.
…to sing a traditional song.
…to check the time.
…to celebrate New Year.
…to dance to.
Check as a class, then see if you can remember the reasons by looking at the top half of this page only.
Part Two: The Sales/ Painting the Living Room
Try to match the things Mr Bean does with the three reasons why he does them, and then write possible reasons for the ones that don’t match
He drives onto the pavement…
People are queuing outside the shop…
He buys some paint…
Mr Bean drives into the back of a lorry…
Mr Bean draws on the wall with a pencil…
He cuts his telephone line…
He puts his teddy bear into the paint…
He covers everything with newspaper…
He puts a big firework in the paint…
…so he can stop.
…to paint his room quicker.
…to use it as a paintbrush.
Watch and check.
Check as a class.
Test each other by saying a reason and seeing if your partner can remember what action matched it.
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PDF for easy saving and printing:
Related pages
Infinitive of purpose page – NEW LINK
Purpose, cause and effect main page (including one more video)
Where is the video?
I just Googled it and the YouTube video came up as the second result.
Hello,
I like the activity, but I would like to ask you some questions: did this activity work to teach students infinitive of purpose? how can you ensure that?
Thanks
It depends what you mean by “work”. There’s no presentation stage in it, so you need to add that before or after (both work), but it certainly helps students understand and use the form. Here’s one more for the same point:
https://tefltastic.wordpress.com/worksheets/videos/wallace-and-gromit/wallace-and-gromit-infinitive-of-purpose/
Hello,
Thanks for your reply
I have another question; since it is matching, how can that help students to use the form, i mean to actually produce the form not only matching?
Thanks
Nawal
I haven’t used this for years, but the instructions seem to suggest that the non-matching ones allow more creativity from the students by allowing them to write their own. The Wallace and Gromit one I linked to has more of that, as far as I remember.
This is brilliant!