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CONTENT
• Let’s Start! •
Let’s Explore! • Let’s Practice! • Extension Activity • Target Words • Learning Points

Let’s Start!

Pronunciation Spot: A date at Pizzario's for John and Sally?

Learning Outcome • What do you like on your pizza? Why?

Accurately use information about food,

eating and meals in communicative
situations.

Ask your partner:

• Do you like pizza or pasta? What
other kind of Italian food do you like?

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Can Do Statements
• I can say and use the long o sound.
• I can make invitations.
• I can talk about food and drink.

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Let’s Explore!

Listen to John and Sally's telephone conversation. Are they going out for dinner?
Does John ask for a rain check*?

* A “rain check” is a promise to do or give something later.

Instructions: Read the text aloud.

John: Hi, Sally. How are you?

Sally: Hey, John. What's up?
John: Would you like to go out tonight for dinner? There's a new pizza place near
my house.
Sally: Do you mean Pizzario's?
John: Yes, their pizza is really good. They also make great panini!
Sally: I hear the owners are from Rome, Italy.
John: That's cool. I know you would really like it. It's the most popular pizza place
in town.
Sally: Is anyone else going?
John: Just us. Vanessa is going to the movies and Peter is studying.
Sally: Ahhh ... Actually, I'm not feeling very well.
John: What's wrong?
Sally: I have a headache ... sorry. Can we all go out another time?
John: Can I get you something for it?
Sally: No, it's OK.
John: Alright, maybe another night. I'll phone you on the weekend. Can I have a
rain check?

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Let’s Practice!

Let’s have a toast to the Long o sound! Would you like to go out for dinner?

Instructions: Complete the sentences. Write the missing word. Use panini, Would pizza,
Can, like, most.

1. we all go out another time?

2. Would you to go out tonight for dinner?

3. They also make great !

4. Could we go the new place near my house?

5. It‘s the popular pizza place in town.

6. you like to go to that new restaurant?

Let’s Practice!

Let’s say and use the Long o sound.

Instructions: Read the words and sentences aloud.

1. Phone
2. Rome
3. Most
4. to know
5. owner
6. I hear the owners are from Rome, Italy.
7. It‘s the most popular pizza place in town.
8. Would you like to go out tonight for dinner?

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Extension Activity

Let's go out for dinner!

Instructions: Complete the following steps. Fill in the Self-Assessment.

a) Name your favorite restaurant.

Self-Assessment YesNo
b) Write the address of the restaurant.
c) Write your favorite meal.
I write the address of my favorite restaurant.
d) Write the meal you don't like (your
least favorite).
e) Share your answers with your partner. I write my favorite meal.

I share my answers about the meal with a partner

Restaurant name:

Location:

Favorite meal:

Least favoritemeal:

Target Words

• phone (verb): a way of

communicating with others
e.g. I'll phone you on the weekend.
• most (adjective): the majority or a lot of• panini (noun): a type of sandwich made with
e.g. It‘s the most popular pizza place
in town.
• Rome (noun): the capital of Italy
e.g. He is from Rome.
• owner (noun): a person who possesses
something
e.g. I hear the owners are from Rome, Italy.
Italian bread
e.g. They also make great panini!
• to know (verb): to understand
e.g. I know you would really like it.

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Learning Points

Modals to Make Invitations and Offers

You use the modals would, could and can to offer to do things for people or to invite them
to do something.

You use could/would + subject + like to make invitations and offers.

You use can + subject + get to make less formal invitations and offers.

Modal Subject

Would you like to go to Pizzario's for dinner?

Would Sally like some more pizza?

Could we go to that new pizza place?

Can I get you a drink?

Can I get you a chair?

The Long O Sound

A long vowel in a word is sounded to say the name of the letter.
A single vowel found the end of a syllable or word may also say the name of the letter
(make the long vowel sound). Example: be, go.
When there are two vowels together, the first vowel generally uses the long vowel sound.
The second vowel generally stays silent. Example: rope, boat.

Examples:
• Long o sound as in oh, phone, ghost, pillow, roast

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