Unit all about me Lesson I can speak English Forms: Date

Activity 3a Look, listen and repeat. 10 min

Objectives: to develop pupils’ speaking skills;to introduce the structure “Can I have a/an ...?”

STEP 1: Play the DVD. The pupils watch the dialogue. Afterthat ask the pupils what the dialogue was about. Elicit some answers and then summarise that they are buying food by askinga question ‘Can I have a somsa, please?’ which means in themother tongue asking for a thing politely. Also explain that theshop-assistant’s words like ‘Here you are.’ tell about politenessas well which means in Uzbek “Mana marhamat.” and in Russian“Вотпожалуйста.” Further explain that ‘No, sorry’ means youdo not have something. After that ask the pupils to repeat thesesentences after you in chorus, in rows and individually.

STEP 2: Ask the pupils to imagine that they are in the shop.Appoint one of them as a shop-assistant and the others as customers.After that play the game as in the DVD.