Page 55 - Face2Face Inter www.english0905.com
P. 55

www.english0905.com
                     ll REAL


                     WORLD                                                                                                 Real World  discussion
                                                                                                                             language



















             Work in groups. Discuss these
             questions.

             1  Have you ever been to a festival or
                street party in your town or city?
                If so, tell the group about it.
             2  What sort of entertainment is
                there at traditional festivals in your
                country?
             3  What are the best and worst things
                about going to a festival?


             a  Check these words/ phrases with
             your teacher or in a dictionary.


               a stage    charge someone £5
               a raffle   donate   a stall
               involve people in something
                                                     www.english0905.com

             b  WMS•>s &11 Look at the
             photo. The people are discussing
                                                         •
             their village festival. Watch or listen     •   REAL WORLD  Discussion language
             to their conversation. What sort of         •   a  Fill in the gaps with the words in the boxes.
             entertainment are they planning to          •
             have at the festival?                       •     make     How     say                     That's    idea   bad
                                                         •
                                                         •
                                                         •     point   could    thought                 Sorry    sure   could
             a  Work in pairs. Do you think these        •     suggest    about                         sounds     worth
                                                         •
                                                         •
             sentences are true or false? If you         •
             think they're false, explain why.           •
                                                              asking to speak                          ways of agreeing
                                                  1
             1  The festival is to celebrate the 300 h              1                                  Yes, that  9          like a good idea.
                anniversary of the village.                   May I  make  a suggestion?                                   10
                                                              Can I make a  2           here?          Well, it's (definitely)         a try.
             2  They're going to charge people £5                                                                       11
                to get into the festival.                     Can I just  3         something          Yes, that's not a             idea.
                                                                                                                12
             3  They're going to advertise for local           here?                                   Yes, that             work.
                bands to play for free.                                                                13           a great/brilliant idea!
                                                         •    making suggestions
                                                         •
             4  They want people in the village to       •    4           about (having some           ways of disagreeing
                donate prizes for the raffle.            •     live music)?                            I'm not  14         about that.
                                                         •
                                                         •
             s  Ian's going to ask the head teacher      •    We  5           (hire some                 For one thing,  ...
                of the school to put on a musical.       •
                                                         •
                                                         •     professional musicians) .               15           , I don't think we should
             6  Lisa thinks the people in the village    •    What 6            (charging people        do that.
                should make the food.                    •                                                                      16
                                                         •
                                                         •     £5 each)?                               I'm not sure that's a good
             7  Rebecca suggests having some             •    Have you  7           of (asking the
                                                         •
                                                         •
                competitions for people in the           •     school to put on a musical)?
                village.                                 •
                                                         •    1 a          we (have some
                                                         •
             b  WM8•>6 &11 Watch or                      •     com petitions) .
             listen again. Check your answers.           •
                                                         •
                                                         •   b  Check in l;lif!ilfilM;mlii• p142 .
   50   51   52   53   54   55   56   57   58   59   60