2.

1 A new identity

Aim Pre-activity (10 minutes)

To practice asking for and giving personal • Bring in two magazine photos, one of a woman and another of
information to keep a conversation going a man, and attach them to the board. Underneath them write:
Name, Country, Job, Age, Married, Phone number.
Language
• Elicit the questions students need to ask to get this information and
Verb to be write them on the board: What’s your name? Where are you from?
Questions What’s your job? How old are you? Are you married? What’s your
telephone number?
Skills
• Divide students into pairs. Ask Student A to imagine he/she
Speaking is one of the people in the photos (depending on whether he/she
Lesson link is male or female). Student B asks the questions and Student A
answers as if he/she were the person in the photo. They then
Use after Unit 2, SB p. 9 repeat the activity with Student B choosing a photo and
Materials answering the questions.
One copy of the worksheet cut up for every • Leave the questions on the board so that students can refer to them
six students in the main activity.

Procedure (20 minutes)

• Explain that students are going to invent a new identity for
themselves and then go to a party in the role of the character they
have invented.
• Give each student a blank identity card and ask them to complete it
with a new name, country, job, age, etc., for themselves.
• When everybody is ready, ask students to imagine they are at a
party in their new role. They must walk around talking to other
people and try to keep the conversation going, as at a party, by
asking as many questions as possible. Demonstrate the activity with
a student first.
• Go around the room listening and correcting as necessary. You
might want to help create a relaxed party atmosphere by putting on
some background music as the students do the activity.
• At the end of the activity, with everybody back at their desks, ask
students how much they can remember about the other people at
the party. Elicit complete sentences, e.g., She’s Svetlana. She’s from
Russia. She’s a teacher.

Extension (5 minutes)
• Students exchange cards with the person sitting next to
them and use the information to write a personal profile of
the invented character. Go around the room helping and
correcting as necessary.

6 Unit 2.1 . A new identity Teacher’s notes

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A new identity

A new identity
Name: Name:

Country: Country:

Job: Job:

Age: Age:

Married: Married:

Phone number: Phone number:

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A new identity

A new identity
Name: Name:

Country: Country:

Job: Job:

Age: Age:

Married: Married:

Phone number: Phone number:

A new identity

A new identity

Name: Name:

Country: Country:

Job: Job:

Age: Age:

Married: Married:

Phone number: Phone number:

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