Making Requests
Intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide clarification and practice of Making Requests in the context of Workplace environment and other daily life activities.
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide gist and specific information listening practice using a video from Youtube and its transcript about requests with Would you ..?, Could you ....?, and Can you ...? in the context of workplace environment.
Procedure (29-45 minutes)
T shows a picture of two people, one is helping another, and asks Ss about what they see in the picture. [Someone is helping another] T shows a picture of people requesting at a restaurant, and asks Ss about what they see in the picture. [People ordering/requesting for food] T shows a picture of a girl who shows a gesture asking for a permission, and asks Ss about what they see in the picture. [a girl asking for a permission] T writes the related vocabulary on the board below each picture. T prepares Ss to engage in the lesson's main topic by asking: "Have ever asked someone for help? to do something for you? for a permission?" "How did you ask him/her?"
T explains some potential blocking vocabulary. T asks Ss to watch a Youtube video about making requests in a workplace setting. Then, asks them if they could understand what some people would say when if they want to ask others to do certain jobs for them.
T models some examples from the video. T drills these examples. Then, T writes the examples on the white board.
T publishes a transcript of the same video and asks Ss to cooperate in finding the requests and responses. Then, T publishes a task to be done by the Ss. T gets their feedback.
T publishes a task to Ss and asks them to work in pairs to prepare them for a role-play.