Patricia Actis June 5, 2015 Speaking Skills, Chat about Friends
Intermediate B1 level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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Practice Speaking about friends and other people.
Subsidiary Aims
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Expand vocabulary
Procedure (45-55 minutes)
Before their listening, will make up a personal story about a friend of mine getting a job in Brazil to introduce the theme of chatting about friends.
Will ask them to talk about: - If you have a problem, who do you talk to? - If a friend of yours has a problem, what do you do? - Will play Course book Audio 3.8
- Ss will have to identify and answer the questions 1.What was Hussein's problem? 2. What happened in the end? 3. Where was Hussein flying to? Why?
Role Play - Groups of 3. They will pretend to be friends of Frank's and talk about his problems at work. Will distribute role play cards. 1. talk about people you know: Did you hear about Frank? 2.Summarise what people say : He told me that he wants to... 3. Report speech directly: So he said, What do you mean?
Ask Ss to tell the whole class about the activity and personalise it to make it more real and lively. Read Frank's email to close the lesson.