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Shop service role-play Description This is a lively role-play in which one student is a customer returning goods to a shop and the other student is a shop assistant. Each student has a role card with the information they need to give or find out from their partner, and the answers that they will give their partner. There are two versions of the customer role card so that the role-play can be repeated using different information. The customer has two items to return (one broken and the other the wrong size or colour). The receipt on their role card provides the information they will need to give to the shop assistant.

Invitations A:Do you want some more coffee? A more forceful but polite way of inviting someone to do something is to use an imperative, including emphatic imperatives with do: Come and join us. Do sit down anywhere you like. Don’t be afraid to ask if you want anything. We often use you’ll have to and you must when we are not specific about the time, for example soon, in the New Year, some time: Inviting someone to the cinema Jack: Hi, Ismael. How are you? Ismael: Hi, Jack. I'm OK but I’ve got loads of homework.Jack: Me too, but would you like to come with us to the cinema tonight?Ismael: Who's 'us'? Eliciting Commonly, eliciting is used to ask learners to come up with vocabulary and language forms and rules, and to brainstorm a topic at the start of a skills lesson. The definition of the term in the Dictionary of Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, ‘Techniques or procedures which a teacher uses to get learners to actively produce speech or writing', suggests that there may be wider applications. Principles and advantages Eliciting is based on several premises: Collectively, students have a great deal of knowledge, both of the language and of the real world. This knowledge needs to be activated and used constructively The teaching of new knowledge is often based on what the learners already know Questioning assists in self-discovery, which makes information more memorable.

Role-play IntroductionWhat is role-play?Why use role-play?Tips on successful classroom role-playBibliography IntroductionIncorporating role-play into the classroom adds variety, a change of pace and opportunities for a lot of language production and also a lot of fun! It can be an integral part of the class and not a 'one-off' event. Picture dictation Submitted 16 years 6 months ago by admin. This is a low preparation fun activity that works well with large classes, especially with young learners and teens. All your students need is a blank piece of paper and all the teacher needs is a little bit of imagination. Procedure

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