Learn key phrases for making suggestions, responding, and giving an opinion. Practise the use of these phrases.
Go to: ACTIVITY 5 or scan the code generated by your teacher. Play alone or with other students. Read the sentences and choose the correct response. Practise expressions to make suggestions or give opinions.
Work in pairs. Prepare a short dialogue. Follow the instructions on your role play card. Try to come to an agreement.
STUDENT A
You are choosing a pet for your grandma. Talk to your friend and try to come up with the best pet for her.
Your grandma lives alone and you think it would be nice if she had a pet. She lives in a house with a big garden. She loves animals but she is afraid of dogs (a dog bit her when she was small). You think birds are perfect pets because they can be trained and they do not need so much care and time. Cats are ok too.
Use expressions to suggest things, agree, or disagree with your partner.
Your partner starts, and you respond: I think I should get my grandma a pet.
STUDENT B
Your friend would like to get his/her grandma a pet. You think dogs are the best pets because they can be trained easily. Small dogs are friendly and never aggressive. You don´t like birds. You had a bird when you were younger and it always landed on your head and bit your ears. Cats are ok too.
Use expressions to suggest things, agree, or disagree with your partner.
Start the conversation: Hey, what´s up?
Go to: ACTIVITY 5 or generate a QR code for your students to practise suggestions and giving opinions – they try to choose correct responses. Students can play alone or with other players.
Role play: Put the students in pairs and give each of them a card with instructions (student A and student B). They are going to prepare short dialogues. They have to use expressions to make suggestions, ask for an opinion, or give an opinion.
Students perform their dialogues for the class. Check the use of the expressions to make suggestions, ask for an opinion, or give an opinion. (*)
(*)Try to make the role play activity competitive and challenging. Give each pair a point for the use of functional language that relates to suggestions, responses, or opinions. You can use the table in learningapps to mark the expressions: TIP
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