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UNIT5C - B2 level

UNIT5C
B2 level

Description

In this lesson, students will explore the topic of running and improving a café. They will listen to several short conversations where people talk about different problems, possible solutions, and ideas to make the café more successful. Through these listening activities, students will practise identifying main ideas and important details. The lesson also includes useful language for discussing advantages and disadvantages and for responding to suggestions in a polite, natural way. Finally, students will have the chance to share their own ideas and practise speaking confidently about them.

Materials

Empower Second Edition

Empower Second Edition

Main Aims

To develop students’ listening skills for understanding main ideas and details in conversations about making changes to a café. To practise speaking about problems, solutions, and opinions in a business context.

Subsidiary Aims

To build useful language for expressing advantages and disadvantages. To improve pronunciation of intonation in sentences. To encourage responding naturally to suggestions.

Procedure (45-55 minutes)

Warmer/Lead-in (3-5 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

Ask students the following questions in pairs: What kind of cafés are there near where you live? What kind of cafés do you like? Why? What do you usually do in a café? Nominate 2–3 pairs to share answers with the class.

Pre-Listening (10-12 minutes) • To prepare students for the listening material and make it accessible

Briefly introduce the situation: Phil, Sam and Becky are discussing the café. Ask students to predict what the conversation might be about.

While-Listening #1 (10-12 minutes) • To practice understanding the order of events and key details in a listening text.

First Listening: Divide 15 students into 5 groups. Give each group events written on pieces of paper. Groups arrange the pieces in the correct order (4 out of 5 events from the book). Groups present their order; teacher confirms the correct sequence. Second Listening: Students discuss the comprehension questions in the same groups and try to answer: Why is Sam worried? What are the problems with serving meals? Why does Phil think it’s a good idea? What does Phil want to know about Tessa? Check as a class.

While-Listening #2 (14-16 minutes) • To practise predicting listening content and identifying positive and negative points in a conversation.

First Listening: Show the QR code and ask students to answer the multiple choice question on the mentimeter page. (Which of these topics they do not talk about?) Second Listening:

Post-Listening (8-10 minutes) • To practise speaking by planning and presenting ideas for a café in groups.

Students imagine they are opening a café in their town.Students scan the padlet code to add their cafe and vote for the best cafe.. They make notes about furniture, food and drinks, music and entertainment, and special things they could offer.