Lesson 3

What kind of events do you prefer?

1. Which celebrations do you enjoy most? Ask 3 classmates and find out which event is their favorite one and how they organize it. What did you ask to find out?

Write your questions and answers on the lines below.

2. Work in pairs. Share and compare your notes in Activity 1. Now, exchange ideas on what you did to find out the information from your classmates; who started the conversation with each one? Who finished it? How did you know when to speak or to listen?

3. With your partner, work on the following conversation. One of you pretends to be Daisy and the other one Jack. Can you guess what they are talking about and complete the conversation? Try out and have fun!

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Daisy: Hi Jack! I’m having a Halloween party on the 31st at my house. Would you like to come? It starts at . Jack: I’d love to. Thank you. Daisy: me organize the party? Jack: Sure. Daisy: My mom’s going to make a Halloween . Jack: And how about some Halloween ? I’ll bring them. Daisy: Good idea. Jack: Who else are you going to invite? Daisy: invite everyone in the class. I’ll invite all the girls. Can you invite the ? Ask them to bring and to share. Jack: OK. Daisy: And remember everyone has to wear costumes. Jack: OK. I’ll tell them. See you around!

4. Now, listen and check your guesses. Were you correct? What is different from the dialog you created? Who started and who finished the conversation? Share with others and have fun!

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5. Work in groups of 4. Discuss with your group the following events and choose one to Group organize. Now you know several expressions to help you plan the event. But this time, build a conversation and decide how everyone can be part of it and help to plan the event.

• A trip to a museum to help with a school project. • A small party at someone’s house to welcome a new student. • A trip to the movies. • A Valentine’s Day party. • A family picnic or barbecue. • A visit to a farm or zoo to work on a school project.

6. With your teammates, take turns and make notes on a final plan to organize your event. Then, invite other teams to your celebration.

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Step 3

Exchanges to organize an event

• Let's keep on building this exchange, our product.

With your original teammates, bring out the dialog you started writing last Create session to organize the event you and your team chose. Together, organize one final list with all the details and things you need for your event and include them in your conversation to organize the event. Taking turns, have everyone in the team participate in the conversation as you all share ideas to build up the plan for the event.

Enrich your original conversation and agree on who starts, continues and finishes but allow everyone to participate. At the end, check the order, the intonation and tone you and your teammates use.

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Facts

Track 23 Let's Celebrate! Read pages 15 to 18. Do you celebrate with fireworks? Why? What is the next thing you are going to celebrate?