1 Communication

describe your learning needs

What are you learning?

Student A
Find someone who is learning to do something on the computer. Ask the questions.

1 Why are you learning it?

2 Do you have a teacher?

3 How often do you practise/study?

4 What do you find difficult?

5 How good do you think you are at it?

6 What do you want to work on?

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Student B
Find someone who is learning a new hobby. Ask the questions.

1 Why are you learning it?

2 Do you have a teacher?

3 How often do you practise/study?

4 What do you find difficult?

5 How good do you think you are at it?

6 What do you want to work on?

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Student C
Find someone who plays a sport. Ask the questions.

1 Why are you learning it?

2 Do you have a teacher?

3 How often do you practise?

4 What do you find difficult?

5 How good do you think you are at it?

6 What do you want to work on?

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Student D
Find someone who is learning another language (not English). Ask the questions.

1 Why are you learning it?

2 Do you have a teacher?

3 How often do you practise/study?

4 What do you find difficult?

5 How good do you think you are at it?

6 What do you want to work on?

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1 Communication
describe your learning needs

What are you learning?

Target language: describe your learning needs
Activity type: class mingle
When to use: Use this activity after the Unit 1 Communication.
Time: 20 minutes
Preparation: Photocopy and cut up one card for each student.

Procedure
Give one card to each student and tell them to read it. Tell students to mingle and to ask
each other what they are learning. When they find someone learning the thing on their card
they can ask their questions. Tell students to make a note of their partners’ answers.
When they have finished, put students into groups so that all the Student As work together,
all the Student Bs work together, all the Student Cs work together and all the Student
Ds work together. Then ask students to discuss their results and prepare to feed back to
the rest of the group, e.g. The students are learning to do lots of different things on the
computer. Two people are learning to use Photoshop … .
Get feedback from the whole class.

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