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Level 1 Student’s Worksheet

A New Bank AccountA Work individually. Unscramble the questions.

1 name / last / your / What’s / ? ___________________________________________________________

2 e-mail / your / What’s / address / ? _______________________________________________________

3 old / How / you / are / ? ________________________________________________________________

4 your / What’s / occupation / ? ____________________________________________________________

5 password / What’s / your / ? _____________________________________________________________

6 mother’s / name / your / What’s / ? _______________________________________________________

7 number / phone / your / What’s / ? _______________________________________________________

8 birthday / When’s / your / ? ______________________________________________________________

9 from / you / Where / are / ? ______________________________________________________________

10 your / What’s / name / first / ? ___________________________________________________________

B Work in pairs. Check your answers.✂

C Work in pairs. Follow the instructions.

1 Decide who is Student A (the banker) and who is Student B (the customer).

2 Student A, look at the form below. Ask Student B the questions from Exercise A in the correct order. Write Student B’s answers. Student B, answer Student A’s questions.

New Account Information

1 Firstname: 6 Hometown:

2 Lastname: 7 Age:

3 Birthday: 8 Phonenumber:

4 E-mailaddress: 9 Password:

5 Occupation: 10 Mother’sname:

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Can you speak more slowly? Can you spell that? Can you repeat that?

D Student B, check the form. Correct any mistakes.

E Change roles. Repeat steps C2 and D.

Unit 1B

Level 1 Teacher’s NotesTeacher’s Notes

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Lead-in»Write on the board rent an apartment. Underneath, write name, occupation, bank information. Give or elicit a list of other situations where people need to give such personal information (e.g., getting a driver’s license, a passport, a library card). Explain that the students are going to practice giving personal information in spoken form.

A●● Write these answers on the board. Then elicit the questions:I’m21yearsold.(Howoldareyou?)I’machemistrystudent.(What’syouroccupation?)Mymother’snameisMaria.(What’syourmother’sname?)

●● If necessary, explain that an occupation is the “main” thing you do, usually a job or studies.

●● Divide the class into pairs. Give each student the first part of the worksheet. Ask the students to work individually to unscramble the sentences.

B●● When they finish, ask the students to check their answers in pairs. Then check the answers with the class. You may need to explain password.

C●● Divide each pair into Student A and Student B. Give each student the second part of the worksheet. Direct them to the new account information form and Ex. C. Explain that Student A works in a bank and Student B wants to open a new account.

●● Ask the students to sit back to back. Student B calls the bank. Student A answers the phone, saying Hello? Student B says Iwanttoopenanaccount,please.

●● Student A asks Student B the questions from Ex. A in the correct order. Student A writes the answers in the form. Point out the useful questions in the speech bubbles.

D●● When they have finished, Student B checks the answers. If any are incorrect, Student B tells Student A to ask the questions again. This is repeated until all of the answers are correct.

E●● Have the students swap roles and repeat the process.

Follow-up●● Put the students into small groups. With the worksheet put away, ask them to try to remember the ten questions in the correct order (as they appeared on the bank form). Ask what the first question was. Have them write them down and number them 1–10. Set a time limit, e.g., two minutes.

●● Choose individual students to come up to the board and write each of the questions. Do the odd numbers first, leaving a space for the even numbers. Be sure to use the ordinal form (the thirdquestion rather than question3).

●● Have the students take out their worksheets and check. Elicit any necessary corrections.

form completionAsk the students to brainstorm other personal information that they may be asked for. Elicit and help with the English vocabulary as necessary (e.g., marital status: single, married, divorced; sex: male or female; full address; place of birth, etc.).

Web homeworkAsk the students to use an online dictionary to find the meaning of these bank-related words: save, withdraw, deposit, ATM, interest, bankteller. Review the words in the next class.

Objective: to ask for and give personal information using information wh- question forms

Time: 45–50 minutes

Skills: speaking—asking for and giving personal information using wh- questions listening—listening to personal information

Vocabulary: personal information; ordinal numbers

Grammar: be information wh- questions

Preparation: hand out one copy per student (cut out or folded)

A New Bank AccountUnit 1B