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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
5 On the Phone

The aim of this activity is to help students practise how to make and answer phone calls with appropriate
expressions and make requests on the phone. It also helps them to improve their listening and speaking
skills.
Materials and Preparation
Photocopy the worksheet on page 198 and cut up the cards for each group.

Procedure
1 Put the class into groups of four students. Hand out the cards to each group member as four ‘Card
A’ and four ‘Card B’ randomly. Point out to students that they are going to say telephone expressions
in ‘Card A’ and try to find the person in their group who has the appropriate reply in ‘Card B’. The first
student to collect four matching pairs of the cards wins.
2 One student begins the game by reading a ‘Card A’ to only one of the other students in the group.
For example, ‘A: Hello, this is Arwa. May I speak with Norris Albert, please?’ That student then looks for
a matching reply on his/her cards. If the student has a matching response, s/he reads it aloud to the
group, for example, ‘B: I’m sorry. He is out of the office now.’ If all the students in the group agree that
the cards go together, the student gives the card to the first student who wins the matching pair.
3 If the student doesn't have a matching response, the first student has to wait until his/her next turn
before saying the telephone expression to another student. The second student then reads a ‘Card
A’ to one of the other students and so on. The game continues until one student, the winner of the
game, gets four matching pairs of the cards.

6 Making Requests

This activity aims to help students practise the expressions for making, accepting, and refusing requests.
It also helps them to improve their listening and speaking skills.

Materials and Preparation
Photocopy the worksheet on page 199 and 200 and cut up the cards for each group.
Procedure
1 Put the class into an even number of groups with four students and give each group a set of cards
in the first worksheet. Point out to them that they are going to categorise these expressions under
three titles; Making Requests, Accepting Requests, and Refusing Requests.
2 Ask them to categorise the expressions collaboratively and study each expression separately. Then,
hand out the second worksheet to each group and ask them to ask and answer the questions in
turns using the expressions they studied.
3 Remind them that each student in the group will take three cards at the beginning. After they ask
all questions in their cards, they will change their cards with their friends’ in the group. All group
members in the group will ask and answer the questions in the worksheet.

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