Polite Requests
Polite Requests
Polite Requests
Warm-up
Teacher asks studentsthe following: Have you ever asked for a break?; Have you
ever asked for a holiday?;When was the last time you asked for something? What
was it?; How did you asked?.
Aim: to attract students attention on the lesson
Technique: speaking
Interaction: T-Ss
Time: 5minutes
Students activity: they answer the questions
Presentation of the new language
Teacher writes the target vocabulary on the blackboard separating it into sections
titled Making requests; Accepting requests; Rejecting requests.
Aim: to focus students attention on the new vocabulary
Technique:speaking
Interaction: T-Ss
Time: 5 minutes
Students activity: they write the new vocabulary in their notebooks
Practice
Activity 1
Teacher asks a student to come up to the front of the class. She asks the student if
he can give her his book using the target vocabulary.
Aim: to encourage students to use one of the phrases to accept/reject a request
that she wrote on the blackboard
Technique: speaking
Interaction: T-Ss
Time: 5 minutes
Studentsactivity: they answer using the target language
Activity 2
Teacher gives cards to students who then move around the classroom making polite
requests to other students.
Aim: to encourage students to use the vocabulary listed on the blackboard
Technique: speaking
Interaction: T-Ss; Ss-Ss
Time: 10 minutes
Students activity: they make polite requests and answer to them
Activity 3
Teacher gives students an e- mail . The students read it and identify the polite
request.
Aim: to encourage students to give their own warnings
Technique: reading, speaking
Interaction:T-Ss
Time: 5 minutes
Students activity: they read the text and answer the question
Activity 4
In groups, the students write their own e-mail.They will ask their coach to give them
more free time.
Aim: to encourage students to write polite requests
Technique: writing
Interaction: T-Ss, Ss-Ss
Students activity: they write the e-mail
Time: 10 minutes
Activity 5
A volunteer from each group reads the e-mail to the class
MAKING REQUESTS
Can you give me 5 dollars?
Could you help me with the
homework?
May I borrow your bike?
ACCEPTING
REQUESTS
All right!
Here you are.
REJECTING REQUESTS
Yes, of course.
now.