Telephoning- Making Arrangements
A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS
A fun whole class speaking activity for telephoning and making future arrangements practice in which students race to make as many new arrangements as possible while roleplaying phone calls - good for Present Continuous and future time expressions.
Lesson Plan Content:
Making arrangements phone calls game
What are your arrangements and plans for the next few days (e.g. tomorrow, this weekend and the beginning of next week)?
Write all of your real arrangements (meetings, drinks with friends, dentist appointments etc) in the spaces below. You can also write things which are plans but not arrangements like going for a jog on your own (especially if you have few arrangements).
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Tomorrow
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The day after tomorrow |
In three days |
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In four days |
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This time next week
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Roleplay phoning people in the class to make as many (business or leisure) arrangements as you can for the next seven days. You must change the person you speak to after each attempt, but you can go back to the same person for later calls if you like. Write all the successfully made new arrangements in the correct spaces above as you agree on them. The person with most new arrangements will win the game.
Starting with the person who thinks they have the greatest number of new arrangements, report your new arrangements to the class, mentioning the day, the time, and the person you are meeting each time. If anyone else says that an arrangement you mention is wrong, if you haven’t arranged something important like the meeting place, or if you have made two arrangements for the same time, play passes to the next person. The person who has the greatest number of new events which are fully arranged wins.
Brainstorm as many future time expressions as you can, use the ones above to help, brainstorm more, then compare your extra ideas as a class.
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