Unit 6

Making Telephone Arrangements

task 1

Read the following sentences. Drop the pronunciation of H. Record yourself on your cellphone or on the app on the right and decide how well you do it. Tell your classmate about it.

Did he like the party?
Where is he?
What has she done?
What have you read recently?
Is this his book?
Is that her sister?

task 2

Fluency and Confidence in English

Watch the video below carefully. Listen to Hadar give you 5 recommendations on how you can improve your English and to soften your accent. So far, you have done several of those things in class. Is there anything that you would like to try harder?

Tips:

Immersion
Methodology
Challenge
Practice
Communicate

Task 3

Let's practice a little more...

task 4

Have you ever heard of impromptu speech? Let's give it a shot, shall we?

You will work in groups of four. Take turns clicking on the slides below. You will see a topic of which you will talk about 3 minutes, non-stop.

Impromptu Speech

task 5

Was that difficult?

Choose one of the topics you just talked about. Invest 10 minutes to develop your ideas some more. Prepare yourself to give your group a little speech about it.

Task 6

Watch the videos below and do the quiz on the right.

First Part

Second Part

Third Part

Taken from https://www.engvid.com

Task 7

Summarizing

Task 8

Let's have some more practice, shall we?

task 9

Watch the video on the right attentively.

Then in pairs, role play the situations below:

Caller 1

You are calling the MI6 looking for James Bond.

You will be asked a lot of personal questions to confirm your identity.

Receiver 1

You are a receptionist at the MI6. Someone is calling for James Bond.

Ask a lot of personal questions to confirm the caller's identity. Try to induce the caller to fail or to leave your questions unanswered.

Caller 2

You are calling a friend that you have not seen in years. You would like to speak for hours with him.

Try to make the conversation as long as possible.

Receiver 2

You are talking with an old friend you haven't seen for a long time. Your friend seems very keen on speaking for hours but you do not like speaking on the phone much. You try to make the conversation as short as possible.

Caller 3

You are calling the Human Resource Manager of a company because you are interested on filling a position as a... (you choose the kind of job.)

You are having problems to get through to the manager. Try over and over again. You always have to be polite.

Receiver 3A

You are a receptionist. Someone, who is interested in filling a position at your company, is trying to reach someone else.

You repeatedly transfer the caller to anyone apart from the person your partner originally asked to speak to.

Receiver 3B

You are a secretary in another department. Someone is calling for another person who is not in your department.

Transfer the caller to the receptionist.

Departments:

Production, Research and Development, Purchasing, Quality Control, Marketing, Accounting and Finance, Human Resource Management.

Caller 4

You recently made a friend on a social media you have. You would like to visit him/her in a few months. Ask him/her several questions about your friend's country, nice places to visit, hotels nearby, transportation, among others.

Receiver 4

Pretend you started learning English a short time ago. You are receiving a clall from someone you recently met on a social media you have. He/She speaks English very well. You don't understand what he/she says very well. Ask him/her for clarification as many times as possible.

Caller and Receiver 5

Each one of you tries to guide the telephone conversation towards a different topic. Do so subtly and trying to keep the conversation in the topic of your choice for a longer period of time.

Possible topics:

Video games, Something you heard on the news, Homework, Universities, Other

task 10

A phone call from a customer

Do the quiz below. Then click on the link on your right.

task 11

Task 12

Group in pairs. Analyze the situation you just listened to in the Google Form above in L.3.1 and on the video on the right. Create a dialogue similar to the one in that activity. Present in front of the rest of the class.

Google Sites

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