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Functional English Sample ESL Library
Giving Personal
Information
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Let’s Learn
Your personal information includes your full name,
your birthdate, your phone number(s), and your
mailing and email addresses. In this lesson, you will
practice sharing this information with others who need
it. You will also practice asking for personal info.
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Warm-Up
BIRTHDAY VS. BIRTHDATE
Questions
Listen to your teacher say these common questions.
Practice saying them out loud.
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• Can I get some information / info? • What’s your cell number?
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Dialogues
Work with a partner. Practice the dialogues.
Then change the personal information to your own information.
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Dialogue 1 Dialogue 3
Practice giving and spelling names. Now practice sharing home and email addresses.
A: Can I have your last name, please? A: Is this your current mailing address?
Now practice giving phone numbers and birthdates. A: Great. And is your email address
still coreywilliams@mailme.com?
A: Can I have your phone number, please?
B: That’s right.
B: Sure. It’s 555-222-7798.
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A: 555-222-7798. Is that your home number?
Correct Info?
B: That’s my cell. I don’t have a home phone.
Sometimes people already have your information.
A: Okay. Do you have a work number? They may check to make sure it’s still correct.
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Practice
A. Complete the Dialogue
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Complete the dialogue, and practice with a partner.
B: Sure.
B: It’s 334-889-0087.
B: That’s correct.
B. Writing Practice
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Listening
Listen to each question. Choose the correct response.
Spelling
Are you giving personal information over the phone or in a loud place?
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It’s useful to spell out difficult or important words. Use familiar nouns
or the English Phonetic Spelling Alphabet.
B: Chia.
A: C-H-I-A?
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B: That’s correct.
Ask your teacher for a printout of the English Phonetic Spelling Alphabet.
Practice spelling out your name, street, and email address using the
words that go with each letter.
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Review
Task 1
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WORDS & EXPRESSIONS
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Task 2 Task 3
Now complete a dialogue that takes place over the phone. Work with a partner. One of you
Perform the dialogue for your teacher. is a furniture salesperson. The
other is a customer. Ask for and
A: What’s your first ? provide personal information from
this lesson. Spell out at least one
B: Juan.
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important word. Then switch roles.
A: Can you spell that, please?
B:
B: It’s juan@mailnow.com.
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A: Okay. Lastly, I need your .
B: September 19.
A: 1994?
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Giving Personal
Speaking, Listening
Information
Notes
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Learner Reflection
GIVING PERSONAL INFORMATION
Add check marks () to show what you've learned in this lesson.
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Name: Date:
My Notes
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Answer Key
LESSON DESCRIPTION: LEVEL: Beg – Low Int
Go over the learning objective with your students. Read the question or play the recording and
have your students circle the best response.
Warm-Up 1. b 2. c 3. a 4. c 5. b 6. a
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Practice pronouncing and hearing the pronunciation difference Transcript:
between birthdate and birthday. Review the different meanings.
1. What’s your zip code?
2. What’s your surname?
Questions 3. Do you have a home phone?
4. That’s Carl with a C, right?
Recite the questions and have your 5. Can I get your email address?
students repeat after you for intonation practice. 6. Can I get some information?
Dialogues Spelling
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Have students read the dialogues out loud in pairs. Optional task. For higher-level students, try this additional task
that is often used when providing information over the phone.
B. WRITING PR ACTICE
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TASK 1
ABOUT THE EMOJI:
Give students a few minutes to make a list
The emoji (and their derivatives) used in this lesson are from
of questions covered in this lesson. Answers will vary.
Twemoji, an open-source project by Twitter. They are licensed
under CC-BY 4.0. https://github.com/twitter/twemoji
TASK 2
TASK 3
If you want to use this task for summative assessment, hand out
the ready-made Role-Play Assessment Tool (page 6), or personalize
your own from a template in Shared Criteria for Success:
https://esllibrary.com/resources/2352
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