False Identities Explanation

False Identities

• Details

Name of Item	False Identities
Activity Type	Role-play / questionaire
Student Level	Elementary - Intermediate
Time Allowance	10 - 25 minutes
Preparation Required	Landscape printing - see "download section below"
Other Items Needed	(flexible classroom layout)
Vocabulary	nationality / branch / facility / position (job) / department / responsible for / based in / main business
Grammar	Wh-question patterns

• Instructions

This worksheet encourages the repeated use of ten basic questions for first meetings in business settings. More advanced classes may use it for revision / as a warmer and if you decide to this, you may want to blank out the questions at the bottom of the page to make the students work a little harder.

The activity is more enjoyable / productive if the students invent totally new identities for themselves and are able to put a bit of thought into these identities. So it's worth giving them five minutes to invent the details and write them in the first column of the worksheet, before asking them to interview their first partner.

With lower level groups, you may want to demonstrate the target dialogue with the help ofa stronger student before the whole group gets going (or stuck). With a more able group, you want to suggest that they ask further follow-on questions with each main question. Information about their first interviewee goes in the "second person column"

With their next partner, students should ask about their partner's previous partner and write the information in the "third person" column. In this way they also get to practice using the questions in the "third person singular".