ENGLISH THE INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE

Objectives


Work and enforce pronunciation using new vocabulary seen in the newspaper

Enforce reading comprehension by answering specific questions about the article

Work on writing skills and also the public management

Glossary: stuff,sights,income,search engines,thriving.

Activity:

The teacher will make a brief intro and explain the importance of learning English. The new vocabulary will be already posted on the board and will be shortly discussed.
The students need to select a topic in order to make a role play; they need to assume they are in a foreign country, one is going to ask for a service (it depends on the topic: at the restaurant, at the hotel, at the airport) and the other one is going to give that service. In the first part, they can not talk at all since they do not know English nor the other one’s language. In the second part they have to use English in order to ask for the service, using the vocabulary provided by the teacher. The most accurate group completing the service in the first part gets a candy bar as a prize.

Answer:

Could you travel to another country and survive without being able to understand or be understood at all?

Have you imagined yourself in this kind of situation? What have you imagined yourself doing?

How would you ask for a room in a hotel if the clerck does not know English or your own language? What about food?

What would you do if you get lost in a place where you can not have anyone else understand you?

Do you consider it is possible to live in a foreign country without knowing its language or at least being intersted in learning it?