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Conversation Cheat Sheets

This is a very useful activity for your students because the resources are basically questions and answers frames in order to help them practice their English. The first thing you should do is form pairs or teams in your classroom, then provide them the questions and the possible answers and explain them that they are able to add more information that they consider important in the case of the answers.  After you have explain and confirm the instructions with your students you should deliver them the material. You can use this material if you want, it's an example: Greetings QUESTIONS How are you? How have you been? How are things? How's life been treating you? How's it going? Greetings ANSWERS Great. And yourself? Couldn't be better. How about you? Pretty good. Can't complain. Not (too) bad. I've been worse. Not very well. What's  wrong / the matter  ? I've been better. Is anything  wrong ...

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Dialogues are very important for your students because they learn pronunciation, word ordering, grammar, spelling. So what I recommend you is to use this activity  Firstable you should form pairs with your students. Be careful with the relationship of their students and also the English level one of the memeber has, so it could be a good idea if you have a not really good Enlgish level student with one that knows a little bit more in order to let them help each other.  Then you can deliver some sentences not in order to have students order them.   This is a very easy example about the five senses: As you may see your students have to order the sentences and then I suggest you to do choral repetition in order to check the students' answers. After that you ask your students to practice the dialogue in pairs, you must monitor the classroom to solve any problem in pronunciation or meaning that students could find.  Finally you ask some pairs to perf...