76-82 Making suggestions, giving advice, expressing enthusiasm and persuading On the completion of this part, students are supposed to: Make suggestions and give advice Some useful
Trang 1Lac Hong University
Faculty of Foreign Languages
ENGLISH SPEAKING 3 (45 PERIODS) Course book:
Functions of English by Leo Jones
A series of International Express by Liz Taylor (New Edition)
Referential books:
Functions of American English by Leo Jones & C Von Baeyer
Speaking Naturally by Bruce Tillitt, Mary Newton Bruder
Essential Functions for conversations by Lawrence J Zwier & Amy Hughes
A series of Market Leader by David Cotton, David Falvey, Simon Kent
Unit 8 (pp 76-82)
Making suggestions, giving advice, expressing enthusiasm and
persuading
On the completion of this part, students are supposed to:
Make suggestions and give advice
Some useful ways to get people to do things
TENTATIVE I was wondering if you’d ever thought of…
Might it be an idea to…
Have you ever thought of…
Don’t you think it might be an idea to…
You could always…
If I were you I’d…
Why don’t you…
Express enthusiasm
Some useful ways to show enthusiasm
I think it’d be a fantastic idea to…
I’ve got a terrific idea…
Others: Page 79
Persuading
Some language forms of not accepting suggestions and advice
That’s all very well, but…
That’s easier said than done…
Others: Page 80
Useful ways of answering objections
I see what you mean, but if…
That’s true, but if…
Exercises: Students are given some activities to do in pairs or groups
Notice: Students need to listen to or read the conversation on page 76, 77 for their reference
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Complaining on the phone, apologizing and forgiving and dealing with
problems and complaints
On the completion of this part, students are supposed to:
Complain on the phone
Some useful expressions before making a complain
I wonder if you could help me…
Look, I’m sorry to trouble you, but…
Others: Page 84
Ways of apologizing more profusely
Oh dear, I’m most awfully sorry
I can’t tell you how sorry I am
Others: Page 84
Apologize
Some useful ways of apologizing before someone complains
I’m not quite sure how to put this, but…
I’ve got a bit of an apology to make, you see…
Others: Page 86
Forgive
Useful ways of forgiving someone
Oh, that’s alright, don’t worry
It’s not really your fault
Others: Page 86
Deal with problems and complaints
Exercises: Students are given some activities to do in pairs or groups
Notice: Students need to listen to or read the conversation on page 83, 84 for their reference
Unit 10 (pp 90-95)
Describing a place, a company or a school, and describing people
On the completion of this part, students are supposed to:
Describe a place, a company or a school
Some useful questions to ask someone to describe something
Where is it?
What does it look like?
Others: Page 92
Describe people
Here are some of the characteristics students may use to describe someone
General personal impression
Age
Height, weight, build or figure
Face, hair, eyes, complexion…
Others: Page 93
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Notice: Students need to listen to or read the conversation on page 90, 91 for their reference
Unit 11 (pp 96-102)
Storytelling, narrative techniques, and negotiation
On the completion of this part, students are supposed to:
Use narrative techniques
Here are some techniques
What happened to him was that he fell in to the sea
What did he was open the letter
What happened was that he opened the letter
Ways of involving the listeners in the story
You can guess how he felt
What do you think he did?
Others: Page 98
Handle dialogue
Some ways of reporting the main point
He wanted to know…
He wondered…
He tried to find out…
Others: Page 99
Control a narrative
Ways of signaling the beginning
Did I ever tell you about the time I …
That reminds me of the time I …
Others: Page 100
Ways of signaling the end of a digression
Anyway, …
As I was saying, …
To get back to the story, …
Ways of cutting out irrelevant details
To cut a long story short…
Anyway, what happened in the end was…
Negotiate
Exercises: Students are given some activities to do in pairs or groups
Notice: Students need to listen to or read the conversation on page 96 for their reference