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Spoken Interaction Skills, Level B1, Activity 05

B1-1 I can produce simple connected text on topics, which are familiar, or of personal interest. Can describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes & ambitions and briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans.

Spoken Interaction for pleasure

RUSHING BACK HOME

TASK 1

Work in pairs. Your teacher will give you some guidelines in order to make a dialogue. You will discuss your proposals with your partner, but without writing them. You have to stick to the guidelines and provide as much information as possible.


GUIDELINES

2 interlocutors: A (female) and B (male);

Setting: Railway station

  • A bumps into B while rushing to his/her train.
  • A hastily excuses herself and turns away.
  • While A is striding along, a few belongings drop from her bag; B comes running to pick them up.
  • A stops to collect her things and starts talking to B.
  • A explains why she had to rush to the train back home;
  • B finds out that they live in the same neighbourhood and suggests they can wait for the next train together.
  • A agrees and proposes to go to the nearest bar and have something while waiting.
  • A starts talking about herself and her family she lives with.
  • Then B gives some information about himself, among which that he is 28 years old and lives on his own.
  • A says she likes the opera very much and that she is going to the town’s central opera theatre to see a very famous play.
  • B says he is not a big opera fan, although he would not mind seeing a play.
  • A asks B to go to the play together and B accepts.