2  COMMUNICATION WORKSHEET Making and responding to requests

Play the game in groups. Imagine you are a parent. Ask your children for help with the household chores.

1 While you were 2 Dinner is ready, but 3 Your children left

cooking, the cooker got the table isn’t. their things all over

TA RT very dirty. their bedroom floor.

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HOW TO PLAY:
4 You find a clean
1 Roll the dice and move. Roll again to find your phrase. shirt of yours on the
2 Make your request using housework phrases. floor in your daughter’s
3 If your request is correct, move forwards one space. If it’s incorrect, room.
move back two spaces.
4 The first student to reach the finish is the winner.

8 It’s the weekend 7 While you were 6 There are lots of 5 You loaded the
and you have a lot of doing the housework, clean dishes, but dishwasher, then found
washing to do. you saw the plants they’re too wet to put more dirty dishes on
were very dry. away in the cupboard. the table.

9 Your children were ROLL THE DICE – Phrases for requests

playing board games Can you … ? Do you mind … ?
in the outhouse with
friends and left a big Could you please … ? Would you mind … ?
mess.
Do you think you could … ? You decide!

10 While you were
making lunch, you
noticed that the bin
was full and smelled
terrible.
11 You baked a
birthday cake this
morning, but you don’t
know how to make it
look pretty.
12 You were tidying 13 While your
your son’s room, children were eating
when you saw that snacks in the living
his bookshelves were room, bits of food fell
dusty. on the floor.

14 You opened the

washing machine and
found eight pairs of
your children’s clean,
wet jeans in it.

17 You washed all 16 Your children 15 Your children’s

FIN
your children’s dirty are in the living room, clothes are clean and

ISH clothes, now you want

them to put them back
but their beds are in a
mess.
dry, but they’re in a pile
on the kitchen table.
in their wardrobes.

Life Vision Pre-Intermediate  Communication worksheet 2    PHOTOCOPIABLE

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