Speaking (A2 Pre-intermediate)
English Readers
English for Life
Classroom implementation
Speaking
aims to help students improve how they read in
practical real-life situations and to widen students’
range of
vocabulary in line with A2 expectations.
The book contains twenty units, each of which can provide
the basis of a lesson. They are divided across fi ve sections:
1.
What’s your news?
Meeting
and describing people,
talking about things and places.
2.
What do you fancy?
Making arrangements and requests,
being a customer and speaking on the phone.
3.
What do you mean?
Developing conversations and
checking understanding.
4.
What’s wrong?
Complaints,
problems, apologies and
thank-yous.
5.
What do you think?
Agreeing, disagreeing,
and giving
opinions and feedback.
All the units in
Speaking
have the same structure and once
you get to know the sections
you will quickly be able to
create your own lesson plan. Each time you see this symbol
in the explanations below, it
indicates a new section of
the unit.
GETTING STARTED
What is it?
Each unit begins with two or three simple
Getting Started
questions directed at the student. The aim of the questions
is to introduce the topic and prepare
for the material which
will follow.
Suggested implementation:
1.
Direct the questions at the class, personalizing the theme
for the students and getting
them thinking about the
topic – which you can then discuss or brainstorm for
vocabulary.
2.
Get students to ask the questions of each other.
3.
Get students to think of additional questions on the same
topic. They can then ask these
questions of their partners
or the group and use these as the basis of a survey.
4.
Create a mingle activity by distributing students’ secret
written answers to other students and getting them to
fi nd the student whose answers they have.
