14. Sports scores Difficulties for this point include ―love‖ and ―nil‖ for zero and ―all‖
and ―deuce‖ for draws. You can get them used to this language before you introduce it by giving
points during classroom games as if they were sports, e.g. Football Debate (students can pass,
shoot or save if they come up with an counter argument to what the other team says). Other
practice includes guessing the context of sentences they hear from what the numbers are, type of
word used for zero (love, nil, zero, nought) and other context clues
15. Number idioms You can practice these by students adding the number to each idiom,
e.g. ―It‘s ________ of one and half a dozen of the other‖ or pairing them up by idioms that use
the same number (which will hopefully make them form connections between them and so
remember them more easily).
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