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upper intermediate level

Description

In this lesson students will have practiced making offers as well as accepting or refusing them

Materials

Abc White board
Abc Answer key handout
Abc Images of the main characters, in the conversation, Helen and Bonny
Abc Role cards
Abc CD: Listening to a conversation between Helen and Bonnie

Main Aims

  • To provide practice of language used for making offers as well as accepting or refusing them

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide specific information listening practice using a text about a conversation between two sisters in which one of them is having a problem in the context of a phone call
  • To raise the learners' awareness of the form of the verbs used when making, accepting and refusing offers
  • To provide fluency speaking practice in a role play in the context of having a problem

Procedure

Lead-in (1-2 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

Students will be asked questions about whether they had a best friend or not and on whether they tell them everything or not. Then they will be provided with two questions about having a problem in which they will have to answer in a group discussion.

Eliciting stage (1-3 minutes) • To set the lesson context and to get students interested in its topic

Learners will be given pictures of people in trouble. They will be asked about what is happening in the picture, what is it that people need when they have a problem and how to offer help. Also this would be the stage where the target language will be first presented through this elicitation.

Exposure (5-10 minutes) • To provide a model of production expected in coming tasks through listening

First, two pictures of the two main characters who will perform the conversation in the listening practice will be presented to the learners. they will be informed of who the characters are, their relation to each other, and what the conversation will be about. Then, they will be given a list of the topics that the characters talked about in the conversation for which they will be asked to discuss and guess what the problem which the characters talked about was. In the end, they will be asked to listen to the conversation and while they listen they will order the topics according to whichever that comes first. After listening, they will first check their answers with a partner

Controlled practice activity (10-15 minutes) • To rais the learners' awareness of the target language as well as its form

Students will fill the gaps of sentences which are often used for making offers, then the will do sentences which are often used to accept offers and in the end they will answer the gaps of sentences that are often used to refuse offers. They will answer by choosing an appropriate word from a box. Learners will be put in pairs to check their answers and then they will write them on the board. When they finish the gap-fill, they will be asked to look at the sentences of the gapfill again, in groups, and discover which verb forms follow the phrases: Let me..., would it help if I..., why don't I..., what if I..., thanks for..., I'd better... and It'd be easier if I... . An answer sheet will be handed to the learners ti check their answers.

Free practice activity (10-15 minutes) • To provide an opportunity to practice target productive skills

Learners will be involved in a role play. Each one will be provided with a role card which will be given to them randomly. Every two role cards will carry the same number for the purpose of pairing the students, and the one acting will have to accept or refuse the offer. The gap fill which was written on the board during the controlled practice activity will help the learners produce the language. As an extension to this activity words from the sentences on the board will be omitted and the role cards will be switched between the learners and they will do it again, only this time they will have to rely on their memory.

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