Rants and Raves - Please and thank you

This activity provides short listening practice based on a monologue with imaginary conversation. The monologue relays information about the speaker’s thoughts on using ‘please’ and ‘thank you’. 

Author
Derek Spafford

In this lesson, students will listen to a monologue about a persons reflection of using "please" and "thank you" in conversation. They will match how its done in other languages and complete a listening comprehension activity. There are also suggestions for developing the theme of manners to practise specific areas of grammar. 

Aims:

  • To practise listening skills
  • To improve students’ understanding of using ‘please’ and ‘thank you’
  • To introduce how to say please and thank you in other languages

Age group:

Adults and teenagers

Level:

CEF level A2-B1

Time:

30 minutes plus time for developing the theme

Materials:

The lesson plan, transcript and student worksheets can be downloaded in PDF format below

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Comments

Submitted by Eddy Saranque on Mon, 10/11/2021 - 14:53

The audio is really useful and I listenned without difficulties of pronunciation, Bingo!

Submitted by Angelocheck on Fri, 09/30/2016 - 17:36

Dziękuję - thank you in Polish. This language has many additional elements to letters in order to show different sounds. But it's a very useful instrument for teaching not only languages but cultures as well. To show how different we - people - can be and how sensitive or indifferent. Thank you.

Submitted by Deepanjali on Sat, 07/10/2021 - 07:41

In reply to by Angelocheck

Strongly agree with Angelocheck that the audio clip is really useful in not only teaching English language, accents and listening skills but sensitizing learners about different cultures as well in the primary step towards language acquisition: Active Listening.

Submitted by Derek Spafford on Thu, 09/15/2016 - 11:37

Grazie Michael I've changed the worksheet as suggested. Many thanks for pointing this out. Del

Submitted by English_Rome on Wed, 09/14/2016 - 13:31

Many thanks for this, it looks useful. On an initial read through I spotted that the Italian for 'thank you' is written as 'grazi'. It is in fact 'grazie'. The final e is pronounced, the sound being quite close to our /e/.

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