-Greet your Ss. -Display a picture about a birthday party. -Ask Ss. what do you do in birthdays? -Elicit the answer from one of the Ss. and then ask all of them to talk in pairs and exchange ideas in one minute. -Get the feedback. -Display a picture B from Face2Face elementary Sb.p.41. -Ask ss. What do you think is happening? -When did that happen? -Elicit the answers from ss.

Pre-teach the lexis that they will use through pictures and eliciting the words and their parts of speech.Words are (grandparents-New Year's Eve- the world cup- born....) -Set the context of the listening task by introducing a picture of the main characters in the conversation. -Set the task in HO1 by giving instructions and ask ICQS to check their understanding. ICQs are:- Are you going to answer these questions about your last birthday?-No -Are you answering the questions individually after listening to the audio?-Yes -Demonstrate the 1st question with the Ss. -Ask ss. to check in pairs. -Display the answer-key on the board. -Ask Ss. for any challenging questions to clarify them.

-Ask ss. to listen again to extracted sentences from the audio and say it loudly. -write the marker sentences of board :was it a big party? yes,it was where were you on your 13th birthday party? I was in Liverpool with my parents. -Highlight the meaning of the sentences as they refer to past actions. -Ask CCQs to check their understanding. CCQs are:Are we using was/were in present tense?-No Are was/were forms of verb to be but in past tense?-Yes -Model and drill the sentences chorally, as groups and individually many times. -Engage ss. in highlighting the form of affirmative and interrogative sentences. -Highlight the phonological features and intonation of the sentences.

Ask ss. individually and in 5 minutes to use the words to form questions with ‘’You’’ in HO2. -Ask ICQs to check their understanding. ICQs are: Are you going to use these words to form sentences or questions?-questions Are you forming questions with you?-yes -Demonstrate the 1st sentence with the students -Monitor ss. while answering the task and help them if needed. -Ask ss, to check their answers in pairs. -Display the answer-key on board. -Ask ss. about the challenging questions they faced and clear any difficulties.

-Set the task by telling ss. they are going to interview each other in 8 minutes using the set of questions from the controlled practice and they have to fill a table with the answers. -Ask ICQs to check their understanding. ICQs are: Are you going to ask your friend these questions?-Yes Are you going to check if both of you do the same thing or not?-Yes Are you going to use was/ were in the questions and the answers?-Yes -Demo the task with one of the ss. -Monitor and help ss. if needed. -Give ss. content and linguistic feedback and praise their good sentences and ask them to find the mistakes in the incorrect ones.