• Instructions

This role-play was designed to enable one of my classes to simulate (roughly) a committee-style meeting. You may or may not want to go as far as having a "chair" and another person "taking minutes" but doing so could be quite instructive for some people.

If necessary, it's worth preteaching all the vocabulary to the whole class to prevent the role-play grinding to a halt when one "committee member" doesn't understand a key word. You may also want to teach particular sentence patterns for presenting ideas / opinions about ideas / and giving a reason to back up the opinion or idea. If you've covered the second conditional form recently, this can be quite good for the latter.... e.g. "If we stopped all outside broadcasts, many local people would stop watching".

Anyway, I hope it works as well for you with your class as it did for me with mine.

You have a choice of two different methods of getting this handout to your printer. It all depends on whether your computer has "Adobe Acrobat Reader" installed. If it has, then this would be the recommended method for printing out the worksheet. Try selecting the "PDF (Adobe Acrobat)" link below. If all goes well, a new application window should appear including a print button, which when selected will print out one copy.

If, on the other hand you do not have "Adobe Acrobat" select the "HTML (web page)" link below. (Also, this method is recommended for users of Netscape Navigator, which seems to have trouble interacting with the Acrobat program like this.) If all goes well, a new browser window will open, from which you can either click the "print button" on the toolbar or open the "File" menu, select "Print" and then adjust the "Print Dialog Box" to your own preferences.

The final link below is to enable you to print this "instruction page" if you want to. Click on the link, and when the page appears on a new screen you will be able to print it using the browser's "print button" or "file menu". After printing, close the window again so that you can continue to navigate around the site.

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