ACTIVITY 3

Main aim

To listen to identify people by the clothes they are wearing.

Time: 45 minutes

Materials: MP3 from http://www.esl-lab.com/party/partrd1.htm

Level: easy

Technical requirements: internet connection

Pre-listening

Ask students these two questions:

• What clothes do you wear for a fancy party?

• What clothes do you wear for a casual party at a friend´s?

Elicit information from students orally and show students a fashion magazine. Show students some clothes from the magazine and ask them:
Would you wear this dress for a casual party? Which clothes would you select?

Ask some students to select the clothes they would wear for a casual party.

While listening:

Ask students to listen to a conversation between two friends, Dave and Jori, at a party and identify two persons; Carol and Bob, according to the clothes they are wearing.

Who is Carol?

 Who is Bob?

 

Script

Party time conversation
(Doorbell)

Jodi: Hi, Dave!

Dave: Hi!

Jori: Happy to see you could make it! Come on in!

Dave: Wow! It looks like the party is in full swing!

Jori: Yeah! And they are eating me out of house and home.

Dave: Oh

Jori: I´d like you to meet my sister Carol. She´s visiting for the weekend.

Dave: Oh. Which one is she?

Jori: She is sitting on the sofa, over there.

Dave: You mean the woman wearing the red sweater with the long black hair.

Jori: Yes, that´s right. Let me introduce you to her.

Dave: Yeah!

Jori: I just know you two would hit it off. You´re so outgoing and adventurous.

Dave: And who´s the man sitting next to her? The man with the suit jacket and the flashy green tie?

Jori: Oh, that´s Bob, my karate teacher.

Dave: Karate teacher? I never knew you were into karate!

Jori: Yeah, I started about two months ago.

 

Post-listening

Make a venn diagram on the two pictures and ask students to complete it in groups.