Lies

© 2007/2008 Languages Out There and its licensors. Reproduction in whole or in part prohibited except as may be provided under the terms of a Licence Agreement. Lesson Plan Level 4 Topic Aim Language Focus Skills Lesson 11 Lies To enable students to make admissions and apologise Should have + past participle, I wish I had + past participle. Formal/informal Reading, speaking, listening Out There – real world Out There – VoIP Find a place close to the school where lots of people are sitting down relaxing, like a small park or a square. Tell students not to forget to use the ‘magic words’ and to smile! Tell students to use VoIP to call some conversation partners. # Details Task Sheet Minutes 1 2 3 4 5 6 To introduce the aim and task of the day, tell the class a short story about someone you know who went to a job interview and didn’t get the job because they were drunk. Ask the students to make a sentence about this using shouldn’t. (‘He shouldn’t have been drunk’) and if they don’t get it right, introduce shouldn’t have + past participle. Show the class some pictures of people that are inappropriately dressed or behaving inappropriately during interviews (use some magazine pictures for this purpose). Explain that the people in the pictures didn’t get the jobs and encourage the students to say why (e.g. ‘She shouldn’t have worn so much jewellery/He should have worn a suit etc’). Task Sheet 1: ask the students to read the text and put the paragraphs in the correct order. Then ask them to work in pairs and say what Jack and the interviewer should and shouldn’t have done using complete sentences. Task Sheet 2: ask the students to decide which conversation these sentences come from. Task Sheet 3: ask the students to work in pairs, choose a role-play and act out the conversation. Act out the role-plays in class. Give details of the Out There task. 1 2 3 10 20 20 10 15 5 Out There Tasks 7 8 Real world: Students ask members of the public their questions to start conversations. Feedback: Ask how it went. Check the students have completed the task. Ask them to list their favourite new expressions and words of the day. Ask if they feel confident with the language taught and get feedback, VoIP: Students ask conversation partners their questions to start conversations. Feedback: Same as real world when in class, but also think about having students do the task as homework, record it and email it to you as an assessment. 40 45 © 2007/2008 Languages Out There and its licensors. Reproduction in whole or in part prohibited except as may be provided under the terms of a Licence Agreement. TD4.11 p1 Task Sheet 1 Can you drive? A: “It’s no good. They’ll never accept me. They want people who can drive and I haven’t got a licence”. Phil laughed. “That’s not a problem. Just tell them you’ve got a licence. They’re not going to ask to see it, are they?” Jack thought for a moment and then he picked up the telephone … B: “Well, that seems to be all,” said Mr Hodges, the man who was interviewing Jack. “Oh, just a moment. There is one more thing. Can I just check that you’ve got a driving licence? You probably won’t need to do any driving but from time to time our people have to visit other places for work and some of them don’t have rail services.” Jack hesitated for a moment and then said “Er… yes, yes I do. I’ve got a full driving licence. I passed my test five years ago”. C: Jack had been doing the same boring job for more than three years. Every day he sat at his computer and typed lists of figures. Pages and pages, hour after hour, day after day. On this particular day he was really bored. He stared at the wall. “I should have paid more attention when I was at school,” he thought. “And I should have gone to university to get some proper qualifications. I might be able to get a better job then”. He carried on typing. D: It was three months later and Jack had already been at his new job in Edinburgh for six weeks when the telephone rang. It was Mr Hodges. “Hello, Jack. How are things? Listen we need you to go on a business trip tomorrow. There’s no train service so you’ll have to take the company car. I’ll bring the keys over this afternoon and give you the details.” Jack went pale… E: Then Jack’s colleague Phil came over to the desk. He was holding a newspaper. “Have you seen this?” he said. “They’re looking for computer-literate people to work for a new company in Edinburgh. No experience needed and £600 a week. That’s £250 more than we’re getting here. Look!” Jack took the newspaper and read the advertisement carefully. Yes, it was true. The money was good and the job sounded easy. There was a problem though. Applicants had to have a driving licence. Jack couldn’t drive. Put the parts of the text in the right order: 1. _____ 2. _____ 3. _____ 4. _____ 5. _____ Work with a partner. Write down at least three things that you believe Jack or the interviewer should or shouldn’t have done. Use complete sentences: © 2007/2008 Languages Out There and its licensors. Reproduction in whole or in part prohibited except as may be provided under the terms of a Licence Agreement. TD4.11 p2 Task Sheet 2 Formal or informal? Look at these expressions and decide which conversation they belong to: 1. Jack and Phil (informal) 2. Jack and Mr Hodges (formal) Put (1) if you think it belongs to the first conversation, (2) for the second or (?) if it could be in either conversation. 1. What’s up? You look a bit worried. 2. There are several issues we need to discuss. 3. I should never have listened to you. 4. I wish I’d never seen that ad in the first place. 5. There’s something important I need to speak to you about. 6. I think you’d better tell him the truth. It’d be much easier in the long run. 7. I’m afraid there’s been a slight misunderstanding. 8. Oh, for heaven’s sake. Just tell him! 9. I’m afraid this is a very serious matter. 10. Why on earth did you think you could get away with it. 11. You should have been honest with me at the interview. 12. You should have taken some driving lessons and passed your test. 13. Are you OK? Is something wrong? 14. Well, what do you expect? You lied, didn’t you? 15. Is everything alright, Jack? You seem a bit quiet today. 16. I’m afraid there’s something I need to tell you. 17. You leave me with very little option. 18. I’m afraid we take this sort of thing rather seriously. © 2007/2008 Languages Out There and its licensors. Reproduction in whole or in part prohibited except as may be provided under the terms of a Licence Agreement. TD4.11 p3 Task Sheet 3 Roleplay Work with a partner. Read the text again if necessary. Then choose one of the roleplays and practise the possible conversation together: Roleplay 1: A. You are Phil. Jack is very worried about something. Try to find out what it is. Ask questions: • what’s the matter? • what happened...? • what are you going to...? Give Jack some advice. B. You are Jack. Tell Phil about your problem. When you have told him, listen to his advice, and accept or reject it. Roleplay 2: A. You are Mr Hodges. Jack has been working for you for six weeks now and now you want him to drive down to the Borders (the area between Scotland and England) to visit an important client. B. You are Jack. You can’t drive so you either have to think of an excuse or admit the truth. Now act out your conversation for another pair and listen to their role-play. Are they similar? What are the differences? Discussion: 1. Is it ever acceptable to lie? 2. What do you think Jack should do? 3. What should/shouldn’t he have done? © 2007/2008 Languages Out There and its licensors. Reproduction in whole or in part prohibited except as may be provided under the terms of a Licence Agreement. TD4.11 p4 Out There Task Real world -say: ‘Excuse me, I’m learning English. Can I ask you a few questions please?’ Then ask people these questions while your partner writes the answers. Swap roles for the next person. VoIP -Call conversation partners and ask them these questions to start a conversation. Remember you can record your conversation to listen to later. Questions 1st Person 2nd Person 3rd Person 4th Person 5th Person What is inappropriate at a job interview? What lies are told in job interviews? Do you feel these lies are justified? In general, what sorts of lies do you think are justified? Can you give me some examples? Can you think of a lie a friend told you, which you couldn’t forgive them for? Or a lie you told someone, which they couldn’t forgive you for?