During this lesson, you will learn how to make requests in English using modal verbs such as:
Examples of requests in English are:
| #1 | Can you check my report? |
| #2 | Could you check my report? |
| #3 | Will you check my report? |
| #4 | Would you check my report? |
| #5 | Would you mind checking my report? |
| #6 | Do you want to check my report? |
Task #1 Make Requests and Invitations (30 Mins)
Task #1A
Categorize the different requests
Task #2 Accept and Decline Invitations (30 Mins)
Task #1A
Categorize the ways to accept and decline invitations
Task #2A
Complete the sentences with expression we have covered during the first two tasks
Pre-Task #3: Write and Speak (30 Mins)
Task #2A
Write and answer requests and invitations
There are two different tasks for beginners and advanced students
- Go to the Padlet board
- Write one simple requests related to an IT Topic.
- Then answer three questions different than yours by recording an audio using Vocaroo.
Break (30 Mins)
Task3A
Take some time off and be back on time
Main Task: Making Requests (1h)
Task3A
Time to make requests and invitations
- Make Pairs
- Divide “can”, “could”, “would”, “would you mind”, “will”, and “Do you want to?” among the team members.
- Create two requests per structure.
- Make a word cloud using WordItOut with the verbs you are going to use. You can also ask ChatGPT to create the word cloud for you.
- Between the two of you, don’t use verbs more than once.
- Each member will respond to the requests made by his/her classmate.
- Use generic ways to accept or refuse the invitation. (For Instance: sorry, I am kinda busy right now)
- Don’t use the same way to accept or refuse more than once.
- Don’t use a way to accept or refuse similar or identical to the one used by other classmate.
