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Part III: Teaching Skills Classes Table 13-1
Partner A
Menu
Starter
Spring rolls £2.00 Sesametoast£... Chicken soup £2.50 Main Course Prawncurry£...
Roast beef £4.70 Vegetarian lasagne £ . . . Dessert
Chocolate cake £3.00 Summer fruits £ . . . Apple pie £2.95
Practising ‘how much is/how much are’
Partner B
Menu
Starter
Springrolls£... Sesame toast £2.20 Chickensoup£...
Main Course
Prawn curry £4.50 Roastbeef£... Vegetarian lasagne £4.00 Dessert
Chocolate cake £ . . . Summer fruits £3.15 Applepie£...
To make use of this activity in which each partner gets prices for half the items on a menu, use these steps:
1. Go through the vocabulary to make sure that students understand the food items.
If you don’t do this first thing, your students are likely to get distracted from the main aim.
2. Do an example on the board.
Get students to suggest what question needs to be asked and make sure that everyone knows how to ask ‘How much is?’ and ‘How much are?’
3. Divide the class into pairs and give each partner one half of the sheet – Partner A has the left half and Partner B the right.
You can tell each partner that his menu is top secret so he can’t show his partner.
4. Ask the students to look at the prices and check which ones are miss- ing, then explain that each partner has to ask the other partner for the prices of these dishes.
Check that they all know what to do.