Day 12

Lesson Plan Negotiation 04

Who is going with who?

Purpose: To get used to negotiation in English.

To obtain skills for persuading others.

Materials: complicated profiles.xlsx (Sheet "handout 1")

complicated profiles.xlsx (Sheet "handout 2")

Task 1 Three minutes talk (no material)

Students will talk about ideal boy/girl friend.

Task 2 Dream couple

Students will make a group of four and be given profile cards (A to D) respectively.
The groups are numbered from one to ten.

Stage 1 Explanation (3 minutes)

Tell students that:
1 they are a clerk in "AOMORI MARRIAGE/COUPLE AGENCY"
2 their task is to make four couples out of eight ladies and gentlemen.

Stage 2 Personal planning (5 minutes) <individual >

Reading the profile, students, individually, will decide best matches. They have to
come up with good reasons.

Stage 3 Working group meeting (10 minutes) <smaller group>

Four students (A-D) get together and discuss the best plan for the match. Then decide
the suggested plan.
Remind them that each clerk(=student) has different information.

Stage 4 Company meeting (15 minutes) <bigger group>

Group 1 to 3 (Company Alpha), Group 4 to 6 (Company Beta), Group 7 to 10
(Company Gamma) will get together and decide the company's plan.
Stage 5 Presentation (3 minutes each) <whole class>
Group Alpha, Beta, and Gamma will make a presentation to the teachers.
Teachers ask questions or make some comments.