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1.1 Walk a little slower ...
Warming up !
Chit-Chat
Allow the students five Form pairs or groups of four. Use these questions
open-ended
minutes of The teacher to start a conversation with your friends.
should make sure that
chit-chat. • Are you a talkative person ?
• Do you like to share your thoughts ?
students use English for
th
this ‘chit-chat’. • What would you like to do after 10 ?
My Thoughts
Form groups of 4-6. Discuss the following with your friends
in the group and then complete the sentences.
(a)
We often need to my mother about swimming lessons.
communicate our my father about
thoughts and feelings I would like my teacher about
to others. Sometimes to talk to
we do that freely. my best friend about
Sometimes we are my grandparents about
not able to do so my neighbours about
because of various
reasons. Let’s review
it in this activity.
Try to complete each (b) from my best friend
sentence using a new from my grandmother
idea. These are open I would
ended questions. You like to from my teacher
and your friends learn to from my neighbour
need not write the
play chess from my cousin
same answers.
(c) about my studies
about the way he/she talks
Allow the students enough I hesitate to my friends
time to talk about their
to talk
thoughts and use feelings. to my about what I would like
their
to do in future
mother tongue in the
They may group
discussion, but they should
course of the about how I want to spend
my holidays
complete the sentences in
English, using their own
ideas and experiences. about my favourite movies
about the things I want
to buy
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