leaartienny 33 Terribly sorry Type of activity small group card game Function practised complaining and apologising Exponent adjectives showing disappoval: awful, disgusting, not goad enough, etc. requests for action: Could you . . .. Would you mind... -ing, etc. I'm terribly!awfully sorry. Sorry about that. I didn't realise . . ./It was anaccident, etc. promises and offers; I'll Lexical areas domestic accidents, hotels, restaurants, shops Problem vocabulary shrunk, interference (on TV), adjust, handprints How to use the game Divide the class into groups of three or four and copy two sets of cards for each group. xixThe cards should be shuffled well and dealt out equally to each member of the group. Player 1 begins by choosing, one of the cards in his/ her hand and making a complaint suggested by the picture, for example, Look here, your son's just kicked a football through my living room window, and laying the card down on the table. The player with the matching card should apologise (I'm terribly sorry, I'll make him pay for it out of his pocket money.) and discard the matching, card. The object of the game is to be the first to get rid of all your cards. Arules sheet for this game is to be found at the back of the book.33 TERRIBLY SORRYKe Risa Meat | | | BECORES| = t