Spot the Problem!
Lesson Plan
Resource
This lesson plan considers pragmatic violations of openings, closings, and requests. These humorous role plays involve continuing a conversation when one person is trying to end it, being overly direct, and providing an overly informative answer to the greeting “How are you?” Textbooks may lack complete openings and closings, so it is worthwhile to spend time on post-openings and pre-closings. Politeness in English may be problematic for EFL learners because of the lack of grammatical forms that mark it.
*Reprinted from Teaching Pragmatics
Author:
Melinda Edwards
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| 03-41-3-i.pdf | 158.41kb | Download |
English Teaching Forum 2003, Volume 41, Number 3
This issue offers a wide range of topics to browse such as individualized learning and self-directed projects, adapting textbook activities, instructional writing tools, and pragmatics. Classroom technique articles include "Counseling and Oral Communication," "Techniques for Students New to the Lang