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Sounding Natural Note: Tell your travel story

• After students finish reading this dialog, you could have them brainstorm an additional line of content in pairs and share it with the class. How about you? • This How about you? is a bit different than others up until this point. Instead of incorporating a short speaking activity, it focuses on giving time for students to recall some details of a trip they made, either abroad or domestic. In effect, it is a set-up for the Speaking Time task that follows on page 52. • Give some time for students to fill in the mind map about a past trip. If you think students are not familiar with mind-maps, it would help if you drew one on the board about a trip you made. • A point to emphasize is that students do not need to write complete sentences in their maps- just a key word or two is enough. N OTES FOR PAGE 57 Speaking Time: Interview & Report • Since the students will be interviewing each other in pairs during the 1st step, you may find it helpful to go over again some basic repair strategies on the board that will help them stay in English while managing this task: • Pardon? • In the 2nd step, students will change partners and report on what their first partner said. The idea here is to make a short “mini-presentation” to practice making longer turns and listening actively. Modelling the short dialog with a few students will help everyone understand what to do. Remind them to switch parts when they get to the end. • It’s not necessary to be too strict with following the example dialog. If students want to spontaneously ask follow-up questions while they listen, that should be encouraged. • When done, it’s possible to keep going for another cycle or two as time permits, or have a few pairs present to the class. • Sorry, what does that mean? • How do you say ~ in English? • How do you spell ~?

• This note is all about Golden Rule 2 in the context of travel stories. A number of implicit questions are listed, all of which can be made explicit as follow-up questions to gather more interesting details. Ideally it’s on the speaker to take initiative to make longer answers, but the listener needs to be ready with follow-ups just in case. English transcript of audio track 2-17 When your conversation partner asks you a question such as " Have you ever been to Hiroshima? ", the basic answer is “ yes ” or “ no ”. But if you only say that, you will come across like you don’t want to communicate. To sound more friendly and communicative, you should remember Golden Rule 2 : add one or two pieces of extra information to your answers. To do that, you can answer one of the implicit questions on this page. The most obvious implicit question, as shown in the Model Sentences , is “ When? ” In this Sounding Natural Note , you’ll find four more common implicit questions. Also, if you are the one who asked the original question, and your conversation partner gives you a short answer, you can also ask these questions out loud to gather more details. Hopefully they will appreciate your interest in their travel story and feel encouraged to talk more about it. Guided Speaking Practice • This dialog is written to point towards a possible way of talking about travel experiences. Although there is not much room to bring in many follow up questions, there are a few to exemplify what can be done. • Listen to track #2-18 as usual, then practice a bit of pronunciation if need be. • Lower-level students might benefit from some time spent on the substitution vocab. N OTES FOR PAGE 56

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