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Example 1: The Restaurant Project

TASK:

Their task was to role play the waiter role in different restaurant activities: setting the table, preparing orange juice, offering menu options.

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Macrofunction:

Exchanging information on goods and services

MicroFunction

Describing procedures step by step.

Grammar:

Use of connectors and different action verbs/vocabulary related to the topic.

By Valeria Serres

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SIX STEP SEQUENCE

STEP 1: Read the menu of different restaurants to identify new vocabulary on food & beverage and verbs/actions related to restaurant service.

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STEP 2: Listen and role play a short conversation at the restaurant where the waiter takes an order.

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SCHEMA - BUILDING

CONTROLLED PRACTICE

By Valeria Serres and Florencia Fernandez Burden

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SIX STEP SEQUENCE

STEP 3: Listen to a real conversation at a restaurant, identify vocabulary used when taking an order.

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STEP 4: Listen again and focus on yes/no & wh questions,as well as on the use of COULD for politeness.

Help students deduct the rules for those grammar points from the previous practice.

Ask them to complete simple grammar exercises where they are put into practise.

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AUTHENTIC MATERIAL

FOCUS ON LINGUISTICS

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SIX STEP SEQUENCE

STEP 5: Pair work. Students role play situations where one plays the waiter and the other the customer. The customer has to order and ask for information on dish options.

The students are given some hints, but not a fixed dialogue.

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PEDAGOGICAL TASK

FREER PRACTICE

STEP 6: Share different role plays with the group.

1: Pretend to be a group of friends trying to decide where to eat and why

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2: Pretend to be customers with only $20 left to eat and decide what to have for dinner according to what you see on the menu.

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Example 2: Social Media

TASK:

Make an Instagram or Facebook post with six pictures showing what you did during the weekend. Caption each picture.

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Macrofunction:

Interpersonal or social

MicroFunction

Retelling past events.

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Sequencing events

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Conveying likes and dislikes

Grammar:

Past simple

Sequencing connectors (First, second, after that, later on, then and finally)

For example:

By Florencia Fernandez Burden