Teaching Function: Finding an Apartment - ESL, EFL, TEFL

This function-based activity combines role playing with an information gap format. Half the students are landlords, and the other half are prospective renters. The students must gather information about apartments to rent.

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Education

Tags:

• ESL
• EFL
• TEFL
• TESOL
• Teaching english
• teaching conversation

[salvador1249]

these videos are effectively helpful for English teacher to second language learner. It engage the learners with their target context where they find English authentically and the can relate easily.

[IMRESUD]

how can i do a lead-in for this activity??

[maym86]

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[Estrella06660]

The overall idea for the lesson is fine. But..

Why did you prescribe them the lg they should use? They were reading from the handouts.

They could have generated the necessary lg in two groups (landlords and tenant)[peer teaching] and being equiped with some necessary means, handle the task

After the task cycle you could have done the language analysis and focus on some useful phrases and at the end practise those somehow or even ask them to do a similar task

That would be a great TBL lesson

[canseeformiles]

Good lesson, also fun when the students sit back to back to make it (slightly) more realistic.

[kevindosi]

I loved this video, I'm gonna try the exercise out on my students!