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Conversation:
Vacation Plans
Student
Handout:
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1.
Look at the photos. Match the words with the photos.
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playing volleyball ___, 2.
snorkeling ____, 3. having dinner___ 4. relaxing on the
beach ___ |
2.
Look at the photos. Answer the questions in pairs or small groups.
Which of the
things in 1. do you like doing when you are at the beach?
What other things do you like doing at the beach?
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Match the photos with the things in this list. |
b.
Imagine you are having a holiday at the beach.
Plan one day of your holiday. |
 Write
your plan here: |
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4. Read this.
When
you want to say sorry because you did not do something,
you can say:
Sorry.
I'm sorry.
Sorry about that
We often
say why we did not do something. e.g. You didn't answer
your phone when your friend phoned you before. Now you say,
"I'm sorry I didn't answer my phone. I was driving
home so I turned it off." |
5. Read this conversation.
Allie is talking to her friend, Jack.
Allie: Hello?
Jack: Hi Allie. It's Jack.
Allie: Hi!
Jack: Are you okay? I phoned you two times today, but
you didn't answer your phone.
Allie: Oh sorry. When?
Jack: I phoned you at ten o'clock this morning.
Allie: At ten o'clock I was swimming.
Jack: Then I phoned you again at three o'clock.
Allie: Umm, at three o'clock I was playing beach volleyball.
My phone was in my bag so perhaps I didn't
hear it ring. Sorry about that.
Jack: That's okay. Anyway, do you want to have dinner
at Pierre's?
Allie: The little cafe on the beach? Yes please!
Jack: Okay. I'm at the hotel. See you at 7 o'clock in
the hotel lobby?
Allie: Okay, bye!
Jack: Bye!
6. Choose
the best answers for these questions:
| What
are Allie and Jack doing? |
Where
was Allie when Jack phoned her the first time? |
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Allie
and Jack are talking on the phone.
Allie and Jack are having dinner together.
Allie and Jack are sitting in class. |
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She
was swimming.
She was playing volleyball.
She was having dinner. |
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does Allie say sorry the first time? |
Where
was Allie when Jack phoned her again? |
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She
says, "Sorry."
She says, "Oh sorry."
She says, "Sorry about that." |
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She
was swimming.
She was playing volleyball.
She was having dinner. |
| Where
is Allie staying? |
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At
home.
At school.
In a hotel. |
7. Read the
conversation again in pairs.
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This
warmer looks at some language used to describe a vacation at the beach
and provides some examples of the past continuous tense and saying sorry
when you do not do something.
Level: Elementary
Language Aims: To
work out the order of a dialogue. To learn the language of a particular
real-life situation. To practice using stress and intonation correctly
in a dialogue. To look at some language that can be used when saying
sorry when you do not do something. To become more familiar with the
past continuous tense.
Time: 45 minutes.
Preparation: Make
enough copies of the worksheet so that each student will have a copy.
Procedure:
1. Students work in
pairs or small groups and match the descriptions with the photos
of things people do on a vacation at the beach.
2. Ask students to answer
the questions about what they enjoy doing at the beach. Write up
some of the activities mentioned on the whiteboard if you wish--this
will help with 3b.
3. In a. students look
at a short list of activities (showing what someone might be planning
to do at the beach for one day.) They quickly match the activities
listed with the photos from 1. This won't take long and students
can do it in pairs or alone or you could quickly do it together
as a class. For b. they work individually and compile their own
list of activities for one day at the beach and then they compare
their lists in pairs.
4. Read the language
for saying sorry with the students. Talk about some times when you
say this. (You may want to make it clear that the ways of saying
sorry given here are for informal situations and NOT for when you
have hurt someone deeply or do not know them well. Demonstrate the
correct intonation and stress patterns for saying sorry.
5. Students read the
conversation (this can be done silently or in pairs reading aloud
or you can read it with a student or play a recording of it if you
have taped it earlier.) You may like to focus now or at the end
of the lesson on the examples of the past continuous used here.
6. Students now answer
the multiple-choice questions about this phone conversation. Allie
is on vacation and Jack is her friend. They talk about why she didn't
answer her phone when he rang her earlier.
7. Have pairs rehearse
the conversation. Circulate and assist with pronunciation and intonation
queries. Then ask for volunteers to perform it in front of the class.
Extension: 1.
You may like to ask students to work in pairs and role-play their
own conversation similar to Allie and Jack's where one is asking the
other why he or she didn't answer their phone and their partner is
using their list of activities from 3b. to give their excuses.
2. Look in greater detail at the examples of the past continuous tense
used in the conversation. Why were they used?
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