5. Highlight/clarify key basic vocabulary for the unit.
CONVERSATIONS What is it? Students can listen to a conversation and read the transcript
where key words and phrases are highlighted. Exercises
in this section check the students’ understanding of the
conversation, and of the meaning and usage of the key
words and phrases.
Suggested implementation: 1. After completing the
Conversations section you can
ask the students to rehearse and perform one of the
dialogues.
2. They can do this either in a pair or for the whole class,
but it is often a good idea to get them to come to the
front to perform rather than letting them talk from their
chairs.
3. You can ask students to work towards improvising a new
scene by asking them to think of what language they
would use if the situation were slightly altered
(e.g.
talk about moving schools instead of moving house ).
SAYING IT ACCURATELY What is it? The exercises in this section focus on sentence structure and
meaning, and allow the students to do tightly controlled
practice of the model dialogue presented in
Conversations .
Once you feel that students have a good understanding
of the new vocabulary, allow them to build their own
conversations, or to use the new language in a more
improvised scenario.
Suggested implementation: 1 Make role cards for students along the lines of the
characters in the
Conversations . You can adapt the
vocabulary used, the intent of the speaker, or the
situation itself.
2. Try to think of scenarios that suit the profi le of your
students: age, culture, reason for studying.
