English Module: Dialogue (part 3)

Dialogue (p.2/14)

1.    Tell the students to look at the pictures. Then, ask them questions about the situation like Who are the boys in the big picture? Who is talking to Nigel? Is he Nigel’s brother? Is he a friend of Nigel’s? Does he live in Nigel’s house? Is he a neighbour? Who is the girl you can see through the window?
Play the recording until several times until the students have understood what the dialogue is about.
2.    Tell the students to open their books and follow the text.
3.    Proceed through the usual steps. When the students drama¬tize the dialogue, for fun ask one of them to play Jeremy’s role.

Communication Practice (p.2/15)
Preview
With books closed, ask What is there in the classroom? and make a list on the board of the things students tell you. Then say, pointing to the items on the list as you talk, There’s a desk, a chair, a table, there are some pens, pencils, exercise-books, etc. Then, practise the question and answer T-S, S-T, and S-S, re¬ferring the students to the list on the board if they find the activ¬ity difficult.

Listening/speaking (p.2/15)
1a. Have the students repeat the new words after you. Tell stu¬dents to listen to the tape and label the pieces of furniture in the room.

Tape-script and key:
Number 1 is a bed. Number 2 is a bedside table. Number 3 is a wardrobe and number 4 is a chest of' drawers. There are also a desk, number 5, and a chair, number 6. Number 7 is an armchair. Number 8 is a bookshelf and number 9 is a stereo.

1b. Pair work. The students check by asking and answering according to the model dialogue. Move around the classroom and check that all the items have been labeled correctly.

Speaking (p.2/15)
2. Preview. Have a volunteer ask Where are the English books? Answer saying They’re on the desk. Elicit front another student Where is the math book (or any other books you know the students have in their bags)? Answer It’s in the bag. Put some pens under a chair and have another volunteer ask Where are the pens? Answer They’re under the chair. Make sure the students understand the use of prepositions. Have other volunteers ask and answer the questions. Then, have students repeat the names of the objects in Karen’s room.
Pair work. Students practise asking and saying where the var¬ious items are. Move around the classroom and help them. Make sure the students use some and any correctly. When students have finished, have two or three pairs repeat the activity.

Listening/speaking (p.2/16)
3a. Tell the students Nigel’s room is in a mess because Nigel is very untidy. But the things Nigel keeps in his room don’t appear in the picture. They have been placed all around the picture. We want to know where Nigel has put all these objects. For exam¬ple, we see that the CD is joined to the wardrobe with a line. So it must be in the wardrobe. Tell students to listen to the record¬ing and join all the other objects with the pieces of furniture. Explain that the objects can be in, on or under the furniture.