Meeting Locals

B1 · Intermediate57 minTravelLesson 2 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: start a conversation with a local and keep it going — a natural opener, follow-up questions, and a polite exit.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: The first hello

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: In a Local Café

    Read a 186-word text about In a Local Café

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Conversation Words

    6 items

  3. Practice7 min

    Practice: Conversation Sentences

    Gap-fill exercise, 5 items

  4. Practice7 min

    Practice: Make Conversation Sentences

    Word-ordering exercise, 5 items

  5. Dialogue10 min

    Dialogue: Meet a Local

    Role-play: You start a conversation with someone at a local market (3 lines)

  6. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Your mission: talk to a stranger

    3 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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