Lesson 9 – A nice neighbourhood
Warm Up
Are there any schools, restaurants, parks? etc. Do you like your neighbourhood? Why / Why not?
Main activity
Listening
1. Are these things in her neighbourhood? Does she like them?
2. You will play the recording twice. Play the beginning: stop after it’s got a lot of good shops, and the people are very friendly.
3. Answers to questions about shops. Write Yes, Yes next to shops.
4. Compare answers with a partner before you check them.
5. You will hear the same woman phoning about a flat.
6.. Hear the recording twice. Play it twice.
7. Compare answers with a partner before you check them. For question 4, ask Why / Why not?
Speaking
- Sit back-to-back with your friends to do the phone call and you are going to have a phone conversation like the one on the recording, and you are going to give information first, but you must not look at each other’s information.
- Give out the role cards: one person has A and the other has B.
You have two minutes to study card and underline anything you do not understand. - You can start the conversation.
Follow up
- Form a group consisting of A and B
- What do you like? Is there anything you’d like to change?
- Collect the results of the answers that you changed in the form of a record