B. Role Play
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 505.
Discuss in groups why so many people want to study foreign languages nowadays.
A. Small Group Assignments
SUMMING UP
Ex. 2. Reply to the following, expressing your preference or lack of preference. Explain your choice.
Ex. 1. Make up sentences using “prefer” and the words given.
| Model A: | doing English – doing French → I prefer doing English to doing French. |
| Model B: | football – rugby → I prefer football to rugby. |
| A | 1) reading – listening; 2) working hard – being lazy; 3) getting letters – writing them; 4) playing football – seeing football on TV; 5) driving – being driven; 6) living in the city – living in the country. |
| B | 1) poetry – prose; 2) language – literature; 3) cottages – blocks of flats; 4) Maugham's novels – his comedies; 5) Shakespeare's tragedies – his comedies; 6) Dega's drawings – his paintings. |
1. Would you like to share the room with your groupmate or with some elder students?
2. Would you rather have fish or meat for dinner?
3. Shall we go to London by plane or by car?
4. Where shall we go on Sunday?
5. Which do you like best, cats or dogs?
6. Shall we phone him or send a telegram?
Work in pairs and take a role each:
Situation 1.
a) you are a specialist who is going on business to London but doesn't know the English language well;
b) you are his friend who is giving advice how to master English.
Situation 2.
a) you are a student who wants to concentrate on communication skills;
b) you are a teacher who is ready to help him.
| <== previous lecture | | | next lecture ==> |
| Language Functions File | | | Language Learning Problems |