Let’s practice some classroom language

Week 1
Task: classroom interaction: getting to know my classmates
Purpose: to use greetings and farewells in formal and informal contexts and to ask for
and provide basic personal information
Context: It is your first day at the university. In the English class, you have a conversation
with your new classmates to meet them.
In the conversation you must:
- use formal or informal greetings to say hello,
- introduce yourself,
- ask for and give personal information (name, last name, age, place of origin,
neighborhood, etc.),
- and use formal or informal farewells to finish the conversation.
Task models
Pre-task activities
Watch the video about Formal and Informal
Greetings and Farewells

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iac0tdc9UyM&t=163s

Take some notes in your notebook!

Listen and read the dialogues A–D.
Match them to pictures 1–4.
Listen and choose the correct response: A, B, or C.
Match the greetings and questions with the responses.
Complete the greeting and introduction expressions
with the words from the box.
In pairs, complete the dialogue using the language from the previous exercises
and your own personal information. Then, practice the conversation with your
partner.
Task
Task: classroom interaction: getting to know my classmates
Purpose: to use greetings and farewells in formal and informal contexts and to
ask for and provide basic personal information
Context: It is your first day at the university. In the English class, you have a
conversation with your new classmates to meet them.
In the conversation you must:
- use formal or informal greetings to say hello,
- introduce yourself,
- ask for and give personal information (name, last name, age, place of origin,
neighborhood, etc.),
- and use formal or informal farewells to finish the conversation.
Post-task activities
Now, please check your classmate’s work.
Give him/her some positive feedback to
improve the work.
For example:
• You did a good job.
• You should change this…
• You should add this…
• You should remove this…
• I think it’s better if you change this…