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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
1 Requests in Places

The aim of the game is to have students make requests as many as possible.

Materials and Preparation
No materials required

Procedure
1 Tell students to imagine a place where they would like to be. It might be an ordinary place like a
school or an extraordinary place like at the top of a mountain. Remind them not to tell the places to
anyone in the class.
2 Next, give them some time to think of various requests that they might ask if they were in those
places. Ask them to keep the requests in their minds.
3 Then, choose one student and tell her/him to give a request once, and at the same time ask the
rest of the class to guess that imaginary place.

E.g. Place: hotel
• Can you help me with my suitcase?
• Could I have room service, please?
• Would you mind checking in two hours earlier?

4 Explain that the first student who guesses the place correctly takes the turn. If a student comes up
with 7 requests and the class is still unable to guess the imaginary place, that student wins the round.
5 Finish the game when each student in the class has had a turn.

2 Caption This

This game aims to have students make requests by looking at pictures. It is expected to help students
with their creativity and speaking skills.

Materials and Preparation
Visuals on page 141
As a preparation, the teacher photocopies the visual page as many as the number of groups.

Procedure
1 Put students into groups of four or five, depending on the size of the class.
2 Hand out the visual page to the groups.
3 Tell students that they are going to caption each picture with a request phrase.
4 Give them 7-8 minutes for the task.
5 When the groups are finished with the task, have them read out their captions for each picture.
6 Emphasize that they are going to choose the best caption for each picture by voting. Therefore,
advise them to note down their friends’ captions while they’re reading out.
7 After all the groups have finished, vote for the caption of each picture and decide on the best
captions.

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