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8. Thinking about Learning: Speaking Strategies (2)This section builds on the skills practiced in Module 9 on spoken communication techniques, focusing onspecific phrases students can use to repair communication problems.8.1 Useful phrasesA. Pre-teach misunderstand. Students match the situations to the phrases. Many phrases are useful inmore than one situation.Answers:a. Someone misunderstands you . 5, 10b. Someone is talking too fast. 1, 2, 4, 9, 11c. You need more information about something. 3, 6, 7, 8d. You didn’t hear something. 2, 4, 9, 11e. You don’t understand one word or phrase. 1, 7, 8, 9f. You want someone to repeat a statement. 1, 2, 9, 11B. Play audio 10.8. Students listen, and identify differences between the audio and the written phrases.Answers:1. I’m sorry, I don’t understand. Can you please repeat that?4. Could you say that more slowly? (without the ‘please’)7. What does ‘directly’ mean?8. I don’t understand ‘essential’.9. You said we have to go to Taunggoo to do what?C. Get students to close their books. Play the audio again. Students repeat the phrases.8.2 Using speaking strategiesA. Students can either do this for homework or in class.<strong>The</strong>y write the rest of this conversation, using six more of the phrases from 8.1.This will be quite difficult, so don’t mark the exercise too strictly – check that they have abasic idea of when to use the phrases.B. In pairs, students decide which conversation they want to roleplay.<strong>The</strong>y create a conversation, using at least two of the phrases from A.<strong>The</strong>y perform their dialogue to the class.UNIT 1037

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