TP 6 - Party
Intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide Ss practice in the productive skill of speaking to make, accept or refuse invitations in the context of useful phrases
Subsidiary Aims
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To give Ss practice in the receptive skills of listening and reading about functional phrases in the context of making, accepting and refusing invitations
Procedure (39-50 minutes)
* Ss to look at the pictures on the board and look at the words * Ss to predict what is happening in the pictures with a partner * Elicit some ideas
* You will listen to Rose speaking to 4 friends on the phone. * Show the 3 questions on the board and go through them * Answer the questions while listening ICQs - are you going to listen? yes are you going to write the answers? yes * Peer check the answers * Elicit answers and write them on the board 1) Ian 2) Lucy 3) Alan
* Show Ss the conversation HO (folded to only show the conversations) * Give Ss the conversation script HO that they just listened to * Ss read it (while they read put on the WB the answer spaces for the race) * Split Ss into 2 groups (James & Bond) - make sure the groups sit on the correct side of the WB * Show the task (other folded part). Explain that the 2 teams will have a race so we can find a winner. * Teams to find the useful phrases and run to the board to write their answers (different people each time) the team that finishes 1st gets 2 points. * Check all the answers together and give each team 1 point for each correct answer. * Tally up the points and declare the winner
* Ss will now listen to the answers and repeat the useful phrases. * In pairs practice the 4 conversations. * Invite a good pair to perform for the class
* Change pairs and show HO about writing a conversation - give an example * When they have written their conversation they can then practice it (swapping A & B) * ICQs - are you going to write? yes then will you practice? yes * Monitor and note any errors * Write any errors on the WB and elicit the correct way from Ss
* Show and give the flexi stage HO * Ss can complete in pairs * Listen to the answers and check