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Prepare students to handle similar situations in future
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Make students think about what situations need to
be solved at the reception
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Create relaxed atmosphere for a serious topic
Characteristics of the activity
A pairwork activity in which students are shown a muted video taking place at a hotel reception
and their task is to dub it.
Preparation time:
7 minutes
Realisation time: 25 minutes
Materials
Only a projector connected to speakers is required.
Source
Designed (Martin Štěrba)
Motivation
Students are asked to imagine a situation that they are married couples. All of them have been
together for 30 years and the evening shows on televison got boring, so they decided to spice it
up. They will turn on their television and will dub what they see on their own.
Procedure
Students are divided into pairs, one of them becomes a receptionist, the other one a guest and
they try to simulate various situations, from booking a room or checking-in to losing a key or
checking-out. This is a first step that should make them remember and activate vocabulary and
phrases learned in the previous lessons. It should not take more than seven minutes.
After students have practised enough and feel confident, the teacher shows them a video from
a hotel reception (LinguaTV, 2010). The video is provided with subtitles, which should remain
hidden during the activity. The teacher mutes the video and asks the first pair to try to dub the
conversation.
Gradually, all the pairs try to dub the video.
After all of them are finished, the video is shown with sound and subtitles and students vote for
the best dubbing and the most accurate dubbing.
Methodology
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It is suggested that the first, preparation part of the activity is not skipped. Students might feel
more confident during the dubbing, since they can apply some
of the sentences they had
practised before.
It is also important that the pairs are balanced, weaker students
should be accompanied by
stronger ones, so if there is a silence gap, they might help, encourage their partner and get the
conversation going.
Modificatons
This activity can be used almost unlimitlessly. Scenes from films, series,
famous sketches,
documentaries, cartoons, anything can be used to fit the topic of the lesson.
Another modification might be description of what is going on in the video, where one of the
pair has closed eyes and the other one tells him what he or she can see.
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