1. Download the file and make copies for students of the activity suggested in the MED section. There are two pages for this activity (pp.2-5), then, have the beam projector ready to show the interactive activity for the second part of the session.

2. Tell students they are going to practice making requests and need to work in pairs.

3. Review with students which modals they can use for making requests.

4. Distribute the worksheet and read the dialog on the left with a student.

5. Guide students through the table and read the information. Make sure they are comfortable with it since many times students don't know how to answer and record information in tables or any other visual organizer.

6. Tell students that depending on the role card they get, they need to call up their roommate to tell them you will be late and request a favor from them. They need to substitute the underlined information with the cards they get. Then, write down their requests in the table.

7. Monitor and offer help as needed.

8. Choose students at random to read their dialogs and share their information in the table with the

9. In the projection, students will see some boxes in violet and others in Green.

10. You need some dice for students to throw and get the line numbers they are going to use.

11. If the die shows ‘3’, students A will use the lines in violet numbered 3 and the other student will use the Green lines in 3.

12. Encourage students to participate actively and act out their lines to sound more realistic.

13. Make students notice how many different lines they can have in a conversation.

14. Give students time to swap roles and monitor the activity.

1. Download the files suggested in the MED section and make copies for students.

2. Tell students they are going to be creative and work with two particular situations that maybe they have experienced before. They are going to make some special requests so it is necessary they review their vocabulary of expressions and their grammar to make the questions correctly.

3. Ask students when was the last time they asked for something, what it was and if they got it.

4. Distribute the worksheet and ask students to describe the picture.

5. Set the context, this is Max and his Dad. Mak has not been a good student lately and he got bad grades in Math, Science and English. He wants to go to a party Saturday afternoon but he knows his father will say no.

6. Write down a dialog using different types of requests.

7. Monitor and offer help as needed.

8. Ask students to swap their dialogs with other classmates.

9. Choose some students at random to read their dialogs and have the class give their opinions.

10. Invite students to display their dialogues on the classroom walls and tour the class so they can read other dialogues and choose their favorite one.

11. This is the second case students are going to work with. This time they need to write a shorter piece.

12. Set the context, this is Lucy and Miguel. Lucy is a very nice and shy girl and she needs help with some homework. She is not good at English but Miguel is. Miguel is very friendly but he doesn’t like Lucy very much.

13. Write down a dialog using different types of requests.

14 Ask students to swap their dialogs with other classmates.

15. Choose some students at random to read their dialogs and have the class give their opinions.