Course Level: Intermediate Time: 90 minutes Targeted skills

Task 3 (15 mins)

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  Ask pairs of children to listen attentively to one another taking it in turns to describe a hobby or interest for a minute.
  
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  Listeners can ask questions.
  
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  Discuss what tone of voice the speaker used.
  
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  Monitor and provide content-based feedback if students require it.
  
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  Listen and make notes of common errors.
  
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  Feedback any common errors that you noticed during speech.
  

Speaking and vocabulary

Task 4 (20 mins)

Drama activity

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  Playing with tone of voice. 
  

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  Devise a drama activity in which groups are given the same script and asked to act it out happily, indifferently, angrily, as if in fear, excitedly and so on.
  
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  Provide this information ‘in secret’ to the group. Ask the rest of the class to talk together to identify both the emotion and how it was conveyed.
  

Task 5

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  Give groups a topic each and ask them to prepare a two-minute talk in which they give as much information as possible to the class in a rapid and monotonous way.
  
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  Evaluate the value of the talks in terms of how much could be remembered. Next ask groups to prepare a one minute talk in which they explain two or three facts.
  
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  Talk about the difference pace and tone of voice makes to how well listeners understand