Unit 10
4 What format of written text might you use for each purpose?
Purpose and audience 1 Inform parents that school will end early next Monday. 2 Entertain a younger brother or sister. 3 Direct someone to the post office. 4 Ask a friend to come to your party. 5 Tell people how to make chocolate brownies. 6 Ask the local book store manager to open the new library.
Speaking and listening 1
Hello.
Act out a telephone conversation. • Student A lives in Antigua and is going to visit Student B in Barbados. • Student B asks Student A when he or she will arrive and depart. • Student A consults the schedule on page 83 and replies.
Hello, Carl. It's Alicia. How are you?
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Swap roles.
Language Simple future tense
Verbs in the simple future tense tell us about things that have not yet happened. We use the helping verb ‘will’ to make the future tense. The plane will leave in half an hour.
CR Speaking and listening: Move around the class, observing students’ role plays. If they are using Creole praise their work and then ask if they can say some parts of their role play again in Standard English. • Future tense: Remind students that we also sometimes use ‘going to’ to indicate the future. Ask students to plan about a trip going out to Antigua on 13th February and coming back on the 17th, and to speak about it using the future tense, e.g. ‘I will fly to Barbados on Monday February 13th on flight 521.’ ‘The plane will leave at 10.10 in the morning.’ • Helping verbs are also called auxiliary verbs.
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