 In this lesson, the teacher gives students the responsibility of choosing a project and organizing themselves into groups. The information students need for their role plays is on cards they read and discuss. In our last class, we learned about eating in a restaurant. Let's use our role cards again. You can choose your group projects. Julia, please read the choices. Open a restaurant. Eat in a restaurant. Good. Mimi, please open the card with number one and read it. To open a restaurant, come to this table. Good. Emma, number two. To eat at a restaurant, come to this table. Okay, please stand up and choose now. Emma, is there another card on the table? Yes. Everyone take a group role card. Good. And what about this table? Remember, everyone in the group helps and have fun. Okay. Any questions? Mariam? How much time do we have? You have 20 minutes. Other questions? Julia. How long is our role play? Your role play is from two to five minutes. Okay, I'll start the timer now. As the students work in groups, they have several creative writing tasks. One group chooses a name, creates a menu, and writes an advertisement for their restaurant. The other group writes a dialogue about ordering food and paying the bill. We need a name for our restaurant. I like natural food. How about blue natural? What kind of food do we have? Greek food, hummus, pita, feta. I am a customer. I am the owner. Two minutes left. Please finish your work soon. Okay class, time's up. Five, four, three, two, one. Are you ready? Yes. Good. This group, please come up and do your role play. This group, listen carefully. Answer the questions about their role play with your checklist. We are opening a restaurant. Here's our advertisement. The blue natural, now open. This restaurant serves Greek food. All our food is natural. Here's our menu. We have hummus and pita and salad and meat. Group two. Come up. Eating at a restaurant. We like the Bob's Coffee Shop menu. I am the owner. I am the customer. Welcome. Please have a seat. Thank you. Here's the menu. Thank you. The French fries are really, really good and they're 99 cents, so. Okay, great work. Thank you. You can have copies of these checklists in your next class. Summary. Reading the instructions for the group work and finishing it independently can give learners more confidence in their ability to use English. In addition, the cooperative learning cards also help guarantee that everyone does an equal part in group work. Next time, join us for Unit 7. We will teach critical thinking skills.