Part 3: Working With a Partner
Aims
Turn-taking, inviting your partner in, disagreeing without being rude, and actually reaching a decision in the final minute instead of two parallel speeches
The lesson, stage by stage
- Warm up5 min
Warm-up: Today's Goal: Reach a Decision Together, Out Loud
4 warm-up questions
- Reading10 min
Reading: Two Minutes, Then a Decision
Read a 490-word text about Two Minutes, Then a Decision
- Vocabulary8 min
Vocabulary: Talking to Each Other
10 items
- Framework6 min
Framework: Offer, Invite, React, Decide
Offer – Invite – React – Decide, 4 steps
- Practice7 min
Practice: What Are You Trying to Do?
Matching exercise, 7 items
- Practice7 min
Practice: Build the Turn-Taking Lines
Word-ordering exercise, 8 items
- Dialogue10 min
Dialogue: The Collaborative Task
Role-play: Part 3. The sheet between you asks: how useful would each of these be for making life better for young people in a small town? The written prompts are: a free sports centre, later evening buses, a job advice centre, a covered skate park, cheaper cinema tickets. You have two minutes to talk, and then one minute to choose two. (10 lines)
- Discussion10 min
Discussion: Let's Discuss
5 discussion questions
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Target vocabulary
In a Tuton account these words become your student's vocabulary deck, so they come back in practice between lessons.
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