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INVITATIONS
THEME 9 AND CELEBRATIONS

FUNCTIONS
F1 Asking for and giving suggestions
F2 Doing shopping
9 GRADE F3 Making requests
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Talking about future plans
F4
F5 Making and answering phone calls
11 Calling the Front Desk

The aim of this activity is to help students practise making and receiving phone calls using common
expressions for telephone conversations and making requests on the phone. It also helps them to
improve their listening, speaking and reading skills.
Materials and Preparation
Photocopy the worksheet on page 204 and cut up the role cards for each student.

Procedure
1 Ask students some questions to brainstorm and recall the commonly used phrases for making
requests and for telephone conversations. For example, "This is ... speaking. How can I help you? Could
you please hold on a minute? I’m sorry. S/He is not available at the moment. Could you speak more slowly,
please? Would you mind if I asked you for an extra blanket?”
2 Divide students into two groups and assign each group one of two roles, such as the students in
Group A will play the role of a hotel guest, and the ones in Group B will be the receptionists.
3 Hand out the role cards to each student.
4 Ask them to use the information on their cards while they are acting out a dialogue.
5 Explain that students in one group pair up with the members of the other group, each for a few
minutes, and then move on to another at your call.
6 When the time is up, ask a group of volunteers to act out the dialogue as a role-play in front of
the class.

12 Do Me a Favour

This activity aims to help students to practise the expressions for making, accepting and declining
requests.

Materials and Preparation
Print and photocopy the worksheet on page 205 for each student.

Procedure
1 Hand out a copy of the worksheet for each student.
2 Ask students to read the sentences and match each request with a suitable response.
3 When they have completed the task, check the answers with the class.
4 Then, have students sit or stand in a circle, and tell them that they are going to build similar dialogues
as in the previous exercise.
5 Explain that one of the students begins by making a request, e.g. “Would you mind opening the
window?” and the one sitting or standing next to him/her accepts or declines the request, e.g. “Sure.
I’d love to.” or “No, I’d rather not.” The next student in the circle makes another request and another
student accepts or declines the request. This continues on until each student has had a turn.

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