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4.2 anyone, anywhere, anythingA. Establish the situation: Tin Tin Mya is studying in Australia, and her friend Nan Htwe is writing to her,wanting to know about Tin Tin Mya’s life in Australia.Students read the letters, and fill the gaps in Nan Htwe’s reply with anywhere, anyone and anything.Answers: anything, anywhere, anyoneB. Students complete the table.Answers:positive negative questionperson someone anyone anyone/someoneplace somewhere anywhere anywhere/somewherething something anything something/anythingMake or elicit these points:• The rules for the positive, negative and question structures are the same as for some and any. We usesomeone, something, and somewhere in positive sentences, offers and requests and anyone, anythingand anywhere in other questions and negative sentences.• There is no difference between someone and somebody.If you like, give or elicit some more examples, e.g. I went somewhere interesting yesterday. Did you goanywhere interesting? He didn’t go anywhere interesting. Would you like something to eat? I don’t wantanything to eat. Can you see anything? I can see something. etc.4.3 Where’s the calculator?A. Play audio 9.6. Elicit the situation, and the problem.Answer: Sayama Win can’t find her calculator. Saya Seng Li is helping her look for it.B. Play the audio again. Students answer the questions. Tell students that some questions don’t have yes/noanswers – I/We don’t know is also an answer!Answers:1. Someone – we don’t know exactly. 3. We don’t know.2. We don’t know. 4. It is very untidy.C. Students read the text, and fill the gaps with someone, anyone, somewhere, anywhere, something oranything.Answers:Sayama Win has lost her calculator. She’s looked in the staff room, but she can’t find it anywhere . Oneproblem is that the staff room is very untidy. It might be somewhere in the staff room, but there’s a lot ofstuff there. Someone should tidy it.Maybe someone came in and borrowed it. However, she doesn’t think anyone entered the staff room,as it was locked. Unfortunately, Sayama Win needs her calculator now. She has to write her maths tests, butshe can’t do anything without her calculator!4.4 Questions and answersA. Students write true answers to the questions. Encourage them to give extra information, e.g.Yes, I went to the cinema. OR No, I didn’t. I stayed at home.B. In pairs, students ask and answer the questions.C. In groups of four or five, students make lists of questions to ask about last weekend, using any + thing/one/where.If you like, do this as a Group Brainstorm Competition: give the class three minutes to write as manyquestions as possible. The group with the biggest list is the winner.D. Students get into pairs with a person from outside their group. They ask and answer their group’s questions.Get a few students to report back to the class about their partner.14 Module 9