This lesson plan for teachers of teenagers and adults at Pre-intermediate level and above explores the theme of mobile phones. Students will have opportunities to express themselves on the use of mobile phones in public.

Introduction

In this lesson plan the students will have plenty of opportunities to express themselves on the use of mobile phones in public and how they themselves use mobile phones.

They will create and perform telephone conversations, decipher mini text messages, then write and send their own. The lesson plan considers the importance of mobile phones for people today and how 'texting' has changed the way they communicate.

Topic

Mobile phones and text communications

Level

Pre-intermediate and above

Timing

60-90 mins

Aims

  • To develop students understanding of telephone and text communications
  • To give students a chance to practise speaking

Materials 

Lesson Plan

Student Worksheets - including cut up activities

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Comments

Hi

There is not audio file for this lesson. Students piece together the dialogue from the worksheet and then practice reading it aloud to prepare them for writing their own dialogues. The teacher could model the dialogue with a student if you wanted to turn it into a live listening, but the focus here is on the language used in a typical phone conversation to help students come up with their own.

Thanks,
Cath

TE Team

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