When Your Child Is Ill

A2 · Elementary57 minFamily & Everyday LifeLesson 4 of 5 · Outline

Aims

Phone the school absence line, describe what you can see in simple words, and ask about a sick note and missed work

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: One Phone Call Before Nine

    3 warm-up questions

  1. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Words for the Phone Call

    7 items

  2. Reading10 min

    Reading: The Eight O'Clock Call

    Read a 180-word text about The Eight O'Clock Call

  3. Practice7 min

    Practice: Complete the Phone Call

    Gap-fill exercise, 6 items

  4. Practice7 min

    Practice: Say It in Plain Words

    Matching exercise, 6 items

  5. Dialogue10 min

    Dialogue: Ringing the Absence Line

    Role-play: It is five to eight in the morning. Your son Leo, in Year 3, woke up hot and tired and cannot go to school. You are phoning the school office. You only describe what you can see; the doctor decides everything else. (8 lines)

  6. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Let's Talk

    4 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

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