Pg ~ Teache Rel DIY stheg Time / Level 30-40 minutes /Pre-intermediate to Upper intermediate Target language Grammar Pregosiion + gerund (fr opening botles) Verb pattems (eps you sig holes) Panctions Paraphrasing / Deering an objec without its name (ou use i for pouring water into 2 bottle) Negotiating 2 soion (Have you got something a bt smaller?) Vocabutay Shapes and materak (round, plac) DIY (oer; funnel, padlock) Preparation Copy role play sheets A and B (one set per sir) and the hharciare items for Student As shop and Student B's shop. (one set of both per pat). Cut up as indicated Leadhin suggestion ‘Act out the following (or simian stuation Pretend you've lost something, snd start looking round for it.The students should become interested. Sey something like: ve lost my... ve forgotten whot i's calle. es long, mede of metat and nylon t's black and siver and i for keeping {you dy inthe rain, Students should come up with “ombrela. Yell them that what you ist cid avery ‘common, natural feature of spoken language (paraphrasing) when we don’t know of ean remember the word for something. Elicit fom the students the sentences, you used to paraphrase ‘umbrella and write thera on the ‘board, Teli students to try paraphrasing the following in pais corkscrew headphones batteries comb {You con drow pictures if necessary. Get feedback. Eick kinds of shop where paraphrasing might be quite common {even for native speakers). DIY shop or similar should come un, {2 [Potacniant 6 oes Bea Pun am ale Pla Tor ody by Ton Radon ‘s notes Role Play instructions Spl the clas into two hale — customers (A) and shop sistant (8). Give out the repecive roleplay sheets and «ge them 3 few minutes to read Pat possible tearrange the room to crete a long counter and a table ‘hind where the estan can pul their tems. This shoul be far encugh away so thatthe custcmer can't see the items. Stand the asitants behind the counter end Sie 20h one a set ofthe eut up items fr student 8 shop They should spread them out on the back table, Emphasise tht they should try zl he most expensive items to the customers. Star the roleplay when they are oll eady by ‘having the customers come into the shop. Monitor eet ull to ersure that nether cstomets nor asstans start showing the mages ofthe tems, but that they use ienguage to explsin what they need, Wher most ofthe customers have fined, find out if they got what they ‘needed for their £20, They can then move onto Pat 2. hich requires thet to swap roles and start egain. Don't forget to sive the As the other set of hardware items, Followup suggestion Students maybe interested to fear the correct names and Pronunciation forthe objects they paraphrased Inthe role lay Write the folowing words on the board trowel pliers dustpan (and brush) plug socket wren plug funnel hole punch padiock toolbox nuts and bois plunger Dail pronunciation of each, and ask students to show the appropriaie image on thet roleplay sheets. ime, elicit ‘the function of each ee ee ee3 as aw Ww ow wo DIV (G0 it yourself} shop Role Ploy for Today Describing an abject without its name Student & Pore 4 ‘You aro a austorner in @ DIY shop. You need the following things, but you don’t now theiv names in English. Describe them to the assistant, say whet they are for and see if they bring you the correct object. Don’t forget fo check the price ofeach, and ask: for casper options if necessary. 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