I will share my screen with students and ask them to guess what these cards are for? I will ask a student to ask me about one card. Then, I will ask a different student to ask someone else about a different card. I'll repeat the question about the last card to a different student. 1. Driver's license- It's a card that shows one is legally authorized to drive a vehicle 2. Starbuck's Card- It could be a gift card or a rewards card for Starbucks (coffee place) 3. Planet Fitness Card- The card is for gym membership at Planet fitness Transition to listen to audio file.

1. Gist Task- use exercise 2a in course book to expose students to TL. Share PDF form of photo of different plastic cards. Share screen with students and then, share link of google slides. Give students 15 seconds to read 4 questions then ask them to please answer the questions while listening to the audio. After listening to audio go over answers quickly with students. 2. Use exercise 2b for course book to get students to notice the TL. Divide students into Student A and Student B. Play audio again for students and this time ask Student A to listen for language the speaker uses to speculate (to guess) and Student B to listen for language that compares and contrasts the photos. Share google slides link with students again and play audio. Share answers with students and remind not to worry if they didn't "notice" all of the phrases because we are about to go over them in more detail.

1. Meaning- Students do a quiz on google forms where they decide if the speaker of the sentence is speculating or comparing and contrasting. I'll give students 2 minutes to complete the quiz. We'll go over the answers and that's when I'll talk about the meaning and form of the phrases. 1. It's probably a library card. Answer: A. speculating 2. The second one, is one of those ID cards that business people wear around their neck. Answer: B comparing and contrasting 3. They're both used for identification. Answer: B. comparing and contrasting 4. With the first one, the card would enable you to borrow books, while the second one would simply enable you to assess the building. Answer: B comparing and contrasting 5. It looks like one of those cards that you have when you're a visitor. Answer: A. speculating 6. I suppose it's important that people can identify who should and shouldn't be in the building. Answer: A. speculating Ask students what they think it means to speculate based on the sentences? Answer: guessing possible answers. Ask students questions about comparing and contrasting. How many things are being compared here? (Talking about question 4) Answer: two 2. Form and Pronunciation- screen share my google slides with students on form and pron. Speculating- It's probably... It looks like... It might be... Comparing and contrasting- They're both... something they have in common is... Pron- when we speculate we usually use wider intonation to illustrate uncertainty: this is usually higher for models (might, could, etc.) or words like probably, guess, something, etc. We something say these words a little more slowly. When comparing and contrasting we usually stress the subject, comparative and thing being compared.

Use google forms to give students a short practice of speculating and comparing and contrasting in a conversation between two coworkers. Give students 2 minutes to complete. 1. Well... Answer: They're both 2. Yes, the colors... Answer: looks like 3. Yes, I guess it could be... Answer: some kind of 4. It... Answer: might be 5. the company's eco principles... Answer: or something like that. Check answer in OCFB

Use exercise 3 from course book and ask students to 1. Talk about two of the three photos, 2. Compare and contrast the situations, 3. Say how you think the person might be feeling. Allow students to talk in pairs for 4 minutes. Then, do OCFB and DEC.