Start from Jamboard slide 1: ask ss to look at the various activities listed and think about which ones they enjoy and which ones they don't. Ask them to drag and drop either a thumb up or a thumb down next to each activity. When done, quickly acknowledge class preferences and introduce the text: short conversation between two friends, with one inviting the other to do something together.

1. Give ss a couple of minutes to read the text (slide 2 on Jamboard) and answer the two gist questions. 2. Plenary check. 3. Focus on the two different purposes of Cynthia's responses (1 - she can't do something / 2. she doesn't want to do something)

Ask ss how Cynthia expresses the two different concepts and move on to slide 3. Show them the examples taken from the text

Go through Jamboard slides 3, 4 and 5 to highlight: 1. meaning - I use "Sorry, but I have to..." when I would like to do something but cant' / I use "Sorry, but ... isn't my thing" when I don't want to do something 2. form - focus on different verb forms the different structures govern - I have to takes a bare infinitive / a gerund or NP is used before the expression "isn't my thing" - both constructions require acton verbs to make sense, as I am talking about activities 3. pronunciation - sentence stress: (Sorry,) I have to help my mum (HAVE/HELP/MUM) / (Sorry,) fishing isn't my thing (FISHING/THING) + highlight connected speech in have to and ~ing ending connecting to next word (fish-ingisn't my thing)

Give ss link to Google Form and give them a couple of minutes to answer questions - if there is time they can check in BORs, otherwise plenary check should suffice

Wordwall activity in pairs in BORs - one ss extends invitation - second student declines by choosing either of the forms practiced in class https://wordwall.net/resource/54362566/tp6-free-practice-refusing-invitations

Conduct DEC