TP 3 Personal Info E-mail addresses
Beginner level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To enable students to develop their listening skills for specific information in the context of an interview between employment agent Tony and interviewee Amy.
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide free oral practise in the context of personal information by clarifying the question form eg. What’s your e-mail address?
Procedure (39-46 minutes)
Stick the job visuals on the board and ask students if they remember them. After eliciting a few answers give them HOs where they can find the jobs with missing letters eg. a t _ _c h _r. Tell them to work in pairs. Then get feedback from the class. Project the written forms of the jobs on the board.
Write an email on the board (babacan.sema@hotmail.com) and ask what it is After eliciting email ask how it is read. Highlight (.) and (@) and write how they are read (dot, at) Show a business card and ask what it is. After they learn the meaning of it, post it on the board and ask the email address. Let students listen to it to check Show students the HO and tell them to say email addresses in pairs Give out the HOs Play the audio to check.
Tell students to repeat the email addresses. Play the audio and make students repeat firstly the second half of the e-mail (@bfl.com) and then the whole address. Make sure they pronounce dot and at well.
Tell students that they are going to ask the question "What is your e-mail address?" to three people in their group. Give students the business cards. Give three different business cards to one group Elicit one answer from each group and write them on the board. Check the answers with the other groups.
Write the word interview on the board and ask what it is. (If necessary do a demo of interview with a student.) Post the picture of Tony and Amy on the board and tell where Tony works. (employment agency) Give synonym (job.) Tell students that they will listen to an interview and complete the gaps as they listen. Let them do peer check. Then tell them they will listen again. This time give them the tape scripts so they can follow and check their answers.
Write a personal info question on the board eg. What___ your name, please? Ask what is missing. Once you elicit the answer post the HO on the board and tell students to complete the gaps. Give out the HOs Once they finish let them do peer check. Then play the audio and make students repeat the TL.
Tell students that they will interview their partner with the questions of the previous activity. (post the questions on the board.) Let them know that they will write down the answers of their partners on HOs. Give out the HOs. Once they finish tell them to check each other's paper.