Teaching Oral Skills Communicatively | Page 34

Post-reading activities Task 5 5 min Students listen to the dialogue again and try to find how people talk to each other and how the way they speak reveals their relationship It is important for The dialogue students to understand the interactional function of dialogue. Moreover, they have to be able to understand the relationship between participants in a dialogue, their mood, the attitude of the speakers towards each other. Task 6 8 min It is important that The tables they students can produce have filled in. language from their notes. This makes them use language for communication Task 7 10 min Students work in pairs . Student A is Mr. Morgan while student B is the receptionist. Using their notes they try to act out the dialogue they have heard. The children are asked to transfer the information from the table into written form writing their impressions of the hotel to a friendly person. Writing helps students understand the differences between spoken and written language. The integration of skills is something that occurs in real life. Children can use other information from the table and this lets them use language more freely. The teacher helps with language if this is requested and pays attention to content , not to form 34