Activity Procedures:

Activity One:

• ask your student to think about different reasons for using the telephone
• have her write her answers on a piece of paper

Activity Two:

• tape the handout, Telephone Calls
• have your student listen to the first conversations
• tell your student that she should listen carefully to the tape so that she can tell you what each conversation is about
• after the student has listened to the first conversation, ask her to tell you in her own words what it was about
• then read the first conversation from the handout and clarify any idioms or pronunciation problems
• repeat this process for the remaining dialogues

Activity Three:

• role-play the various dialogues after you have finished going through the entire handout