W. A. Ward Dear English Teachers!

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students' own problems
 
post-listening Time: 15 min.
aim: 
practising the learned vocabulary in conversations
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Encourage students to conduct a conversation and answer the questions. 
Go round the class monitoring and helping where necessary. Conduct a whole 
class discussion
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1. Have you got hobby? If yes, what is it?
2. How long have you had this hobby?
3. Is it an expensive hobby?
4. Why do you like it?
5. how much time do you spend on your hobby?
6. is it common hobby in Uzbekistan?
7. Write down three other common hobbies in your country? 
students own answers
Grammar
Time: 15 min.
aim: 
reinforcing students’ knowledge about reporting verbs.
Tell students that they are going to learn reporting verbs. Ask them to look 
through the grammar spot. Explain the rules with example. Ask them to give 
their own examples.
if your time allows, here is another fun way of teaching Reporting Verbs: after 
looking through the grammar spot, tell your students to write about 10 personal 
questions they will be able to ask you. Students love asking personal questions 
to their teachers! Put the questions on the board and then divide class into 2 

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groups. Make the first group leave and wait outside. The first group members 
take turns in asking you the prepared questions and write down your answers. 
Now, they leave and the second group does the same thing. However, what 
they do not know is that you are not honest with one group and give correct 
answers, but lie to the other. it’s a good idea not to tell them beforehand. When 
the second group is ready ask the group outside in and tell the students to pair 
off as 1st and 2nd group partners. The activity goes like this and of the students 
tells his partner “i asked the teacher how old she was and she told me she 
was 16.” then the other partner goes “i asked the same question, but she told 
me she was 36.” etc… until the questions are reported. Here they have to pay 
attention to the usage of the reporting verbs and have fun in finding which group 
the teacher lied to.