Course: 3^rd medio

Unit: On the phone

Objectives: synthesis and create new structures of ways to communicating

Apply new vocabulary in their context

Improve comprehension skills

Objectives: Prepare a phone conversation using new phrases to reproduce new vocabulary in its context. Infer and predict what the two friends are saying

Pre-listening
1.Brainstorm things to do in your free time in the city. Elicit ideas from the students and write them on the board.
2. Distribute interest topics (about things they’d like to do) to the students and ask them to turn to the appropriate page.
3. Ask students to skim through the listings and choose one thing that they’d most like to do. Give them 3-5 minutes to do this.
4. Ask students to discuss their options with the student sitting next to them.
5. Ask students for feedback in large group. Would they prefer doing these things alone, with a friend, or with a group of friends?
6. Ask a student to volunteer. Stand back to back and “call” the student to invite him/her to go to one of the activities/events with you. 
7-Students will design a list of questions to be used when they call their friends with this template, discussing all together with the teacher:

Receiver:	Caller:
Starting a phone call Hello Speaking Hello Sara. I’m fine how are you?	Starting a phone call Hello, can I speak to Peter please? I Peter is Sarah How are you?
Finish a phone call Goodbye	Finish a phone call Bye

while-listening

1-Listen a dialogue about Tanya who has been studying hard for an exam and vents her frustrations to Angela when she calls. 

http://www.inglesavanzado.org/IA/01%20-%20Studying.mp3

2-What’s the main purpose of the dialogue?

3-Why did Angela calls her friend Tanya?

4-Where Tanya wanted to go?

5- Analyze these phrases, then discover what do they mean and give an example writing one sentence to each one for a better comprehension

a-A lot to cover

b-It’s not a big deal

c-I’m worn out

d-It’s better than going back to square one.

e-I wanted to get ahead start

f-Don’t beat around the bush

g-Covered a lot of ground

h-Down to the wire

i-I don’t want to bug you

6-Read the dialogue along with the recording

Tanya: Hello.

Angela: Hey Tanya, it’s Angela. What are you doing?

Tanya: I’ve been studying all day for my biology midterm tomorrow. I studied a lot yesterday too,

'cause I wanted

Angela: So you’ve probably                                by now right?

Tanya: Yeah, I have, but I just realized that the guest lessons are going to be on the test, too. So I gotta start studying those now. But it’s not that bad. It’s better than

Angela: Whoa, that sounds like too much studying for me. I’d be sick and tired of it by now.

Tanya: I’m almost to that point. It feels like I’ve been studying 24/7, and I still have a                             

Angela: Well, I needed to…. Oh never mind.

Tanya: You needed to what?? Tell me.

Angela: 

Tanya: Come on, tell me                    . I'm                           from 

studying and need a break anyway.

Angela: Ok, if you insist. Sarah just scored 3 free tickets with VIP passes to the concert tonight.

Tanya: What?! I thought it was sold out for weeks! I really wanna go, but... This sucks. Now it’s going to be on my mind the whole time I’m trying to study.

Angela: Sorry! When I found out you were                              studying 

for your test I wasn’t gonna tell you because you’d feel like you were missing out… But you insisted!

Post-activity

Create an informal dialogue with your partner about a similar situation (7 lines each one)