For the first section of speak out - "Will you come to my ______ party"
The first part is a presentation about when to use the part of speech and possible responses. Next we look at a bunch of different types of parties and practice the dialogue with those.
Then there's an activity. There are 3 different weekly schedules (A, B and C) to print out and cut up. Make enough so everybody can have one. Each student is having three or four parties, so they need to try to get people to come to their party. But they can't come if they've already agreed to go to somebody else's party or if they are having a party that day. I don't really think they understood my instructions because this activity should have run out of steam pretty fast once everybody's schedule was all booked up -- instead it went on and on. But anyways -- they had fun and even the low level students were speaking English.
Also included in this is a kind of bomb game. There are four weeks on the calender and different kinds of parties on each day. The students ask me "Will you come to my ________ party?" I say "When is it?" they say "It's on ________" If I already have a plan they lose all their points, if I say yes they get some amount of points. So if I say yes to one team and then another team asks me the same day they lose their points, also, I have some plans that they just don't know about. The other activity took too long though so I didn't get to try this game.
