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Handout  \n✓ Listening texts  \n✓ Dice (online dice can be found via google)  \nAims:  \n✓ To develop skills and knowledge in speaking and listening at Level 2  \n✓ To explore vocabulary connected to L2 topics  \n✓ To develop students’ ability to complain about problems in the house to a landlord  \n✓ To practise making and responding to suggestions, describing things, complaining, making requests in semi-formal situations (asking someone to do something) .  \nExam task focus: Component 1 Task 3  \nProcedure:  \nProblems in the home  \n1. Ask the students (SS) about any problems they have had in their homes. If possible, find images to illustrate possible problems in order to focus on the vocab. in Activity 1 e.g. leaking / dripping taps, blocked drains, damp walls etc.  \n2. Distribute handout via chatbox. Put SS into Break Out Room (BOR) groups of 3/4 . Give them a minute to look at the points in the game and check they understand how to play. If possible, use online dice. Highlight the prompts for suggestions of what they should talk about. After the activity, close BORs and return to main room to conduct whole class feedback. Focus on emerging vocabulary related to the topic and also sorting out the problems – this will prepare them for Activity 2.  \nHandout Activity 1  \n3. Put SS into pairs in BORs and tell students to look at the suggested solutions to some of the problems. Highlight the fact that many of them are generic solutions. Tell them to match the solutions to the problems in Activity 1. Close BORs and return to main room conduct whole class feedback.  \nSuggested answers:  \na. a dripping or leaking pipe / shower / radiator / washing machine [a, b, e]  \nb. a strange smell [a, e]  \nc. a blocked drain / toilet / sink / basin [c]  \nd. damp / cracked walls/ ceiling / floorboards [a, b]  \n[e. an](e. an) infestation of moths / mice / rats / other insects [a, b, d]  \nf. fridge / cooker / washing machine not working [b, e]  \nHandout Activity 1 a & b  \n4. Tell them they are now going to practise describing problems in the house and making suggestions as to what to do about the problems with their partner. Tell them to take it in turns to describe the problem and make suggestions. Before they do the activity in BORs, highlight the language in the language box. Whilst they are doing the role play, visit the BORs to monitor making a note of any good examples or things that don’t sound right. Close BORs and return to main room to conduct whole class feedback focusing on what they did well and correcting any errors.  \n5. Ask SS to tell you the last time they complained about something. Find out what sort of situations they complain in. Is it normal to complain in their country? Explain that in the UK, even when complaining people try to be polite and stay calm to get better results! Tell students they are going to listen to 2 people complaining to their landlord. Tell them they need to listen to the problem, why it is a problem and what they want the landlord to do. Read the listening texts. If necessary, read twice.  \nScenario 1  \nSorry to bother you but we have been having quite a few problems in the house recently. There seems to be a problem with the central heating. We haven’t had any hot water for a few days so we’ve had to boil kettles to wash do the washing up and to wash ourselves. It’s getting colder so we do need this to be sorted soon because the house is getting colder. Could you get someone in to take a look at it?  \nScenario 2  \nI’m afraid we’ve been having a lot of problems with the people in the flat below and we’d really like you to do something about it. They are really noisy a lot of time. Sometimes it’s loud music or television and sometimesit’s the children screaming and shouting. Also, they’ve started leaving their rubbish to pile up in the hall outside their flat. 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