Language focus:

Using prepositions to indicate position

e.g. He lives at Flat 18B.

Asking ‘Wh-’ questions to find out specific information about a person

e.g. What's Eddie Chen's address?

Using the simple present tense to express simple truth

e.g. I live at ...

Pre-task preparation

1 Collect some business cards (with English addresses) before class. Circulate the cards in class and tell the students to look at the telephone number and English address on each card. Show them the school's letterhead or envelope. Write the school's English address and telephone number on the board. Read them aloud. Then ask: What's our school's address/telephone number? Ask students to bring a gas bill/electricity bill/telephone bill to class next time.

2 Play the recording: Look and learn. Students listen and follow in their books.

3 Ask one or two students to read the address on the envelope aloud. Then ask: What's Jenny’s telephone number? to elicit: 6526 3156.

4 Write a few 8-digit telephone numbers on the board. Ask the students to read them aloud. Let them know the different ways of reading the number ‘0’ and the double numbers, e.g. zero, O, double one, one one, etc.

5 Give the students five minutes to read the information in Look and read. Then ask questions about it, e.g. What’s Mr and Mrs Chen/Mr and Mrs Wang/Mr and Mrs Li’s address/telephone number?

6 Students work in pairs to complete Ask and answer. Student 1 asks whereas Student 2 answers. Remind them to refer to the three cards in Look and read to find the answers. Invite 2-3 groups to act the dialogues in front of the class.

While-task procedure

1 Students complete Part A of Write, ask and answer individually. They need to write down their names, addresses and telephone numbers on the cards. Remind them to refer to their gas/electricity/telephone bills if they cannot write their addresses in English. Then they work in pairs to read the dialogue in Part B.

2 Distribute a copy of Photocopiable page 40 to each group. Students work in groups of five. Ask them to use the modelled dialogues in Ask and answer to find out their classmates' addresses and telephone numbers. Then they need to design a cover. Finally, the group leaders collect the cards, make them into a class phone book and pass it to their teacher.

Post-task activity

Classmates' records

a Distribute a copy of the class name list with blank spaces to each student.

b In five minutes, students have to go around and ask one another to write down one's address and telephone number on the name list.

c Students with the most addresses and telephone numbers on their name lists win.

d Ask the students to work in groups to complete their list. Encourage them to find the information which they have not got from the others' lists. Tell them to keep the list as record and make use of it when they need to contact their classmates by phone or by mail.

Consolidation

Grammar Practice Book 6A page 19