Oral Presentation

Presenting a trade mark.

After listening (e.g. about different makes of shoes, cars, etc.) students use the information they have heard to make an advertisement and present it.

e.g.

Listening passage

Nova all-weather boots are the best and most modern boots you can buy. For hiking and walking, they are completely waterproof. With their stylish good looks, Nova Boots are hard to beat.

These sports sandals are different! They’re the most comfortable and the safest shoes for summer walking. Just like trainers, but they are much less expensive than trainers! Try them and you’ll never want to be without them.

What’s everybody’s wearing these days? Doc Martens of course. They are, quite simply, the most stylish thing you can wear. Doc Martens? Cool!

(the tapescript is taken from Double Take-2 by J. Collie, unit 7B)

Advertisement

Look at these luxurious shoes. They are the most durable and safest in the world. Moreover they have a very stylish and modern design. You won’t be able to find a warmer and lighter ones. Be quick or you won’t be cool! No more words! Come and buy it!!!

(Aksernova D., Myo I., Gorbenko J.)

Story telling

Retelling from different points of view.

Students listen to the story and retell the plot from the point of view of its participants.

e.g.

Retell the story as if you were an army officer, an old lady, etc.

What happened when the train was in the tunnel?

One day, a few years ago, a train was travelling through the English countryside. This was in the days when trains had small compartments, and in one particular compartment there were four people. There was a young girl, quite pretty, who looked like a student or someone who was starting her first job; there was an old lady, dressed in black with bags and magazines and knitting; there was an army officer in his mid-thirties, immaculately dressed in his uniform and very stiff and proper in his manner; and finally there was a young cockney, casually dressed with a sparkle in his eye and ever ready to have a joke. It was quite obvious that both the men were attracted to the young girl, though the officer certainly wouldn't show it and the cockney felt inhibited by the presence of the others.

Suddenly the train went into a tunnel; the lights had not been put on, so for half a minute the carriage was in complete darkness, and in the darkness came the sound of a large kiss followed almost immediately by a loud slap. What had taken place while the train was in the tunnel? When the train finally emerged and it was light again in the carriage, there for all to see was the officer with a bleeding nose and a swollen eye. And the old lady, seeing this, thought to herself, 'What a brave young lady, who dared to hit the officer for stealing a kiss in such a cowardly way!'

And the young girl, seeing the suffering of the officer, was puzzled. 'How strange', she thought, 'that the officer should kiss the old lady, and not me!'

The poor officer, nursing two injuries that caused him more than a little pain and embarrassment, considered to himself ‘That cockney's quite a clever chap! He kissed the girl, and the girl hit me!'

And the cockney laughed silently to himself at the trick he had played. 'I am a clever chap,' he thought to himself. 'I kissed the back of my hand, hit the officer in the face and nobody said a word!'

(the tapescript is taken from Headway upper-intermediate

by John and Liz Soars – unit 5)