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Complaints, functional
Intermediate level

Description

In this lesson students will learn how to use their language in the context of complaints. The lesson will start by brainstorming some examples about explaining a problem, expressing dissatisfaction, and responding to a complaint. Ss will then listen to conversations for people making complaints, then they will do CP on the listening followed by FP.

Materials

Abc Grouping

Main Aims

  • To provide clarification and practice of language used for making complaints in the context of Phone bill

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide fluency and accuracy speaking practice in a conversations in the context of situational complaints
  • To provide detailed listening practice using a text about complaints in the context of phone bills

Procedure

Lead in/Building context (5-8 minutes) • Generate interest in the topic

Start by asking questions about phones and bills to elicit TL - What kind of smart phone you have? - Is it expensive? - What would you do if you bought a new phone and it didn't work! - How many hours do you spend using your phone? - How much do you spend on your phone bill?

Listening (10-12 minutes) • to practice listening for details

Give Ss gap fill exercise, one for each pair of students. - Ask them to guess the words in the gaps - Ask students to check their in their groups - Play recording 2.12 to 2.14 - Give Ss the answer key

Highlighting target language (7-10 minutes) • Clarify meaning, form ,and pronunciation

Elicit from Ss why we used the TL: - Why we used those sentences, what does it express? - What do we call it when we are not happy about a product? [dissatisfied] - What do we do when we are dissatisfied? [we take action, make a complaint] write marker sentences that they have problems with on the WB and drill the pronunciation.

Controlled practice (8-12 minutes) • To provide practice on using the TL

- Give Ss the grouping task and instruct them to group the sentences in the last task in 4 categories, they will work in groups - Give students answer key - Discuss the answers with the Ss, ask CCQs - Ask students to give at least one more example to each category, in Groups

Free practice (10-12 minutes) • To provide freer oral practice and use the language productively

- Give Ss numbers (1,2,3,4) and instruct them to group into 4 groups, all the 1s ... all the 2s ... - Give each 2 groups a situation. - Give instructions that each 2 groups will take opposite roles, one group will make complaints and the other group will respond to their complaints. - Change roles, same rules - WC FB

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