Speaking (A2 Pre-intermediate) English Readers English for Life Classroom implementation

2.
Put students in pairs and give a picture to each student 
which they must keep hidden from the other.
3.
The pair can then try to identify the differences between 
their respective pictures by asking questions such as 
Is there any orange juice?
or 
Are there any grapes?
They must not look at each other’s pictures until they 
have found the differences.
4.
Feed back with the whole class.
Using 
Saying it accurately
Saying it accurately
allows tightly controlled practice of 
the new vocabulary. After you have fi nished this section 
you might want to allow students to build their own 
conversations.
1.
Photocopy the pictures from the roleplay photographs 
sheet below, or source your own which fi t the profi le of 
your students.

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English Readers
English for Life
Speaking (A2 Pre-intermediate)
2.
Put students in pairs or groups which match the 
characters in the photographs, and give each group the 
appropriate photograph.
3.
Get students to give the characters names and to 
imagine what they may be talking about.
4.
The pairs/groups can then start to write a conversation 
between the characters.
5.
Set a goal, e.g. they must include at least one word/
phrase from each of the categories in 
Conversations 
Exercise 2
(i.e. non-precise objects, quantities, etc.)
6.
Let students perform their conversations within their 
groups at this stage, and monitor for accuracy of 
usage.
Using 
Saying it clearly
 and 
Saying it appropriately
1.
At the end of these parts, get students into the pairs or 
groups from the roleplay exercise in which they wrote 
their own conversation, and ask them to annotate their 
dialogues with the linking from 
Saying it clearly
and the 
(rising) intonation from 
Saying it appropriately
.