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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
5 What is the Manner?

This activity aims to have students talk about the manner of accepting or declining request expressions.

Materials and Preparation
Activity sheet on page 144
As a preparation, the teacher photocopies the activity sheet as many as the number of students.

Procedure
1 Hand out the activity sheet to students. Then, explain them that they are going to listen to different
dialogs and fill in the blanks by picking the exact phrases they hear from the list on the top of the
activity sheet.
2 Pause after each dialog and have them choose and write the exact responses they hear.
3 Afterwards, ask students to evaluate the manner of each dialog in terms of response (accept or
decline), formality (formal or informal) and politeness (polite or impolite). In case they don’t like the
manner of any speech, encourage them to rephrase it as they wish.

6 Request Prompter

The aim of this activity is to have students accept and decline requests using prompts.

Materials and Preparation
Strips on page 145
The teacher photocopies the worksheet and cuts out the strips of paper for each pair.

Procedure
1 Put students into pairs.
2 First, give each student 8 situations strips randomly. Then, hand out the response strips consisting
of 4 accept and 4 decline responses for each student.
3 Tell the pairs to put all of the situation strips face down. Next, have one of the students in pair
to pick a situation strip and read it. Ask the other student to choose a response (either accept or
decline) and give a convenient response for the request mentioned in the situation strip. Remind
them they are to dedicate one response strip for each request.

E.g. Student A You are studying for your Math exam, but your neighbors are having a very
loud party at the same time. You decided to visit and say: Could you turn
the music down and be more quiet please?
Student B Yes, of course. Sorry for that noise. (If the response card is Accept)
I am sorry, I don’t think I can. (If the response card is Decline)

4 Let them elaborate and pursue each dialog if they wish. Each student in pairs does the same task
in turn.
5 After they have studied all situations, let them tell which requests have been accepted and which
ones have been declined.

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