Strategies for New Arrivals

Barrier Exercises - Ionic Compounds

Students work in pairs to complete this SPEAKING task. What to do:

1. Cut the paper so that Lists One and Two are separate from one another.
2. Give List One to one student and List Two to the other.
3. Students do not show each other their list!
4. Students take turns explaining the number of each type of ion they have in their compound.
5. The students decide whether they have the same compound.
6. Students complete the summary sheet after they do the task.

List One		List Two
1. Na 2 S		1. Na 2 SO 4
2. CaCl 2		2. MgCl 2
3. H 2 SO 4		3. H 2 SO 4
4. BeOH		4. Be 2 O
5. AlF 3		5. AlBr 3
6. CuSO 4		6. CuS
7. Fe 2 O 3		7. FeO