ESL worksheets and activities - Making arrangements - crazy dictation

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Aim To review language for making arrangements on the telephone. To develop listening and pronunciation
Activity Students complete a dialogue by dictating sentences across the classroom
Organisation Pair work
Preparation Make enough copies of the activity for the number of pairs in your class
What do I do? 1 Put students into pairs, facing each other across the room.
2 Hand out the activity. Give A to one student in each pair, and B to the other.
3 Students dictate their half of the dialogue to their partner across the room, until both have completed it.
4 Use the dialogue to review language for making arrangements

A
Hello Maria. It's Jane Lowe from Universal Tech in Singapore
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Fine thanks. I'm calling because I'll be in Paris next week and I'd like to meet with you. I want to tell you about our new software.
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How about Wednesday?
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Perfect. It'll be great to see you again. I have a lot to tell you.
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Right. See you then. Bye.
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B
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Hi Jane. How are you?
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Great. What day would suit you?
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Let me have a look in my diary. Yes, that's fine. Is 10 o'clock ok?
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Fantastic. See you next week then.
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Bye!

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