This lesson provides students with a live listening on the topic of the teacher’s personal interests and opinions. The students then use this as a model to chat about similar topics with their classmates using basic tenses and a variety of structures.

Topic: Personal interests, likes and dislikes

Age: Teenage/adult

Level: A2/B1

Timing: 60-90 mins

Aims:

• To help students focus on fluency when speaking
• To develop students’ communication skills
• To develop students’ listening skills

Plan components

Lesson plan: guide for teacher on procedure.

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Worksheets: worksheets which can be printed out for use in class.

• worksheet 1 - questions for interview
• worksheet 2 - notes from interview

Download worksheets 55k pdf

By Sally Trowbridge

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First published in 2010

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