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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
9 Do Me a Favor

The activity aims to have students ask for and respond to favors. It also makes it possible for students
to improve their reading and speaking skills through working in a collaborative way.

Materials and Preparation
Board game sheet, a dice pattern and counters on page 148
As a preparation, the teacher photocopies the board game sheet, makes dice from the dice patterns
and cuts out the counters.

Procedure
1 Put students into groups of six.
2 Give each group a board game sheet, a dice and counters.
3 Ask students to place their counters on the starting point. The student to throw the highest number
with the dice starts the game.
4 Have students roll the dice. Then, have the student who has rolled the dice ask for a favor according
to the box she/he has landed on.
5 Once the student has come up with a suitable favor, have her/him roll the dice again. The member of
the group whose student number for the group activity has been indicated by the dice is required to
respond to the favor. If the student can’t think of anything to say, she/he can say “Pass.” but misses
the turn. Have students keep rolling the dice in turns to continue.
6 Monitor and guide them while they are carrying out the task so that you can help them with the
challenges faced during the task. The first student to reach the finish wins the game.

10 Favor Guessing

The aim of this game is to have students practice asking for and responding to favors.

Materials and Preparation
Pictures on page 149
As a preparation, the teacher cuts out the pictures.

Procedure
1 Put students into groups of four or five, depending on the size of the class.
2 Stick the pictures on the board or display them on the interactive whiteboard.
3 Ask students to examine the pictures for 2 or 3 minutes and ask them to think about what favors
those pictures remind them of.
4 Tell them “What kind of favors do you think they need?” and have them write as many favor phrases
as possible.
5 Monitor and guide them while they are carrying out the task.
6 The group making at least ten accurate and comprehensible favor phrases will get a random
applause.

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