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THEME 6 FAVORS

FUNCTIONS
F1 Making requests
12 GRADE F2 Accepting and declining requests
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F3 Asking for and responding to favors
12 Favor Chart

The aim of this game is to have students practice asking for and responding to favors. It is expected to
help students improve listening skills.

Materials and Preparation
Worksheet on page 151
As a preparation, the teacher photocopies the worksheet as many as the number of students.

Procedure
1 Put students into pairs and hand out the worksheet to each student.
2 Have students take a glance at the worksheet for getting more acquainted with the task.
3 Let them listen to the recording twice, noting down at the same time.
4 After the second listening, ask the pairs to swap the worksheets and do peer checking.
5 Have students share their answers and give a third listening to check the answers. Make sure that all
students have the right answers on their worksheets, which is vital to the second step of the activity.
6 As a second step, have students look at their worksheet and ask them to rephrase the favors and
their responses on the worksheet.

E.g.
Favor Is it OK if I borrow your mobile phone to call my Mom?
Rephrased Favors Can I borrow your mobile phone to call my Mom?
Could I borrow your mobile phone to call my Mom?
Is it alright if I borrow your mobile phone to call my Mom?
Response Of course! Help yourself!
Rephrased Response Sure!
Certainly!
Yes, of course!

7 Give them 5 minutes to discuss and have them share their answers with the class.

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