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In this activity, students practice the language of requests and offers by asking individual
students to do things.
Procedure
Make one copy of the worksheet for each group of four students and cut as indicated.
Begin the activity, by revising requests and offers. Ask individual students to do various
things in the classroom, e.g. Could you open the window, please? Could I borrow your
dictionary?
Explain that students are going to play a game where they make requests and try to find the
student in their group who has the Yes, of course response to their request.
Divide students into groups of four.
Give Students A worksheet A, Students B worksheet B, and so on. For groups of less than
four students, give the strongest student two cards.
Tell the students not to show each other their cards.
Student A begins by asking one of the other three students in the group (B, C, or D) the first
request at the top of his/her card.
If the student answers: Yes, of course ... Student A can cross off that request.
If the student answers: Im sorry ... Student A has to wait until the next turn before asking the
request again to another student in the group.
After Student A has asked one request, it is then Student Bs turn, then Cs, and so on.
The aim is to be the first to cross off all three requests, but the game should continue until all
students have crossed off all their requests.
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