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Listening.

Preparation: You will need a picture of an object.

Procedure: Give the picture to a student. Challenge him or her to
'sell' it to the class by arguing why they really need it. This activity
can be done seriously or humorously.
For example:
Student: (holding up a picture of a home knitting machine)
We are all tired at the end of the day. We can watch television
or we can go to the pub with our friends. But if we go to the
pub every night it costs a lot of money. Knitting is the answer!
Knitting is relaxing. We can give the jerseys, etc. to our friends
or we can sell them. So we can relax, express ourselves and
make money! Who wants one? The students then decide
whether the sales talk was persuasive or not.

Variation 1: Use a word for an object rather than a picture as a
stimulus.
Variation 2: Record the sales talks of the students and then use the
tape to analyse with them how persuasive they were.

Sentence starters

Writing, speaking and listening.

Procedure: Write on the board:

Ask the students to call out what they think could be added
to this sentence beginning. If there is time, ask the students to
work with a neighbour, to select four of the lines, put them in
order and then to find a fifth line that they feel makes the writing

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