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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
7 Let’s Meet

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

Materials and Preparation
Photocopy the worksheet on page 201 for each pair of students.

Procedure
1 Put the class into pairs and hand out each pair of students the worksheet. Tell them that they are
going to create a dialogue about planning the weekend activity together using the expressions for
making, accepting, and rejecting suggestions.
2 Before students start the activity, review the expressions for making, accepting, rejecting suggestions,
or how to suggest an alternative with them. Let students brainstorm the following target expressions
or more and write them on the board. For example, ‘Why don’t we ...?, Shall we ...?, Let’s ..., How/What
about ...?, Yes, that sounds great., That’s perfect., I don’t think that’s a good idea ..., etc.’
3 Ask students to write the names of the weekend activities below the pictures and then write a
dialogue using the steps under the pictures. Once they have finished the activity, ask them to act it
out.

8 Weekly Schedule

This activity aims to help students practise the expressions for making, accepting, and rejecting requests.
It also helps them to talk about their future plans.

Materials and Preparation
Photocopy the worksheet on page 202 for each student.
Procedure
1 Hand out the worksheet to students and ask them to write five tasks they plan to do and need help
with in the schedule. For example, clean the house, organise a party, do gardening, etc.
2 Then, tell them that they are going to make requests to find friends who are free to help with their
five tasks and write their names under the activities. Ask students to walk around the class to find
classmates who are free to help them. They can ask, for example, ‘Could you help me clean my
house on Monday afternoon?’. If someone accepts the request to help them, they should write the
name of this classmate under the task.
3 Remind students that they should also write in their schedule the tasks that their friends have
asked them for help with. If they are busy or they are going to help another friend in their schedule,
they should give reasons when they reject the other requests.
4 The students are supposed to write one friend just for one task, not for more. The first student to
find five different friends for five tasks is the winner.

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