Your three
Name your three, and for each one say in five words who it is for.
One prediction before you start.
1. Three minutes of recommendation. What breaks first?
A model, three times over
Model — Rui, on three places
One. There is a market on the north side, Tuesdays and Fridays only. The fish half is the reason to go — it is the best thing about this city and almost no visitor finds it. Go at seven, because by ten it is finished. It is not for you if you do not like crowds; it is genuinely difficult to walk.
Two. If you would rather do something quiet, there is a garden behind the old hospital. Nobody knows about it. It is free and it is open until sunset. I like sitting there for an hour with a book. There is nothing to do, which is either the point or the problem depending on who you are.
Three. And if you want to eat well and spend nothing, avoid the whole centre. The places near the cathedral are overrated and touristy. Go two streets back — there is a row of small places where you can eat for eight euros. My favourite has no sign and I cannot remember its name, which is not helpful, I know.
Work from the model.
1. How does he open recommendations two and three?
2. Each of the three names who it is not for. Find the third one.
3. He says I like sitting there, not I like to sit. Which group is like in?
4. The last line admits he cannot remember the name. Why keep that?
Opening with the reader
Reader-first openers
Six phrases. Each one names the person the next recommendation is for, before naming the thing. Tap for the rhythm — the modal in each is unstressed.
Reader first, thing second. There is a good garden makes the listener work out whether it applies to them. If you would rather do something quiet, there is a garden tells them first, so they know whether to listen.
Each opener also carries a verb pattern. If you would rather takes the bare verb; if you want to takes to; if you do not mind takes -ing. All three groups, in the openers themselves.
Match each opener to the form that follows it.
to is already there — …eat well-ing — …queuing-ing — …getting up at six-ing — …walkingOne recommendation, properly
Write the verb in brackets in the right form, and fill the one-word gaps.
If you would rather (do) something quiet, there is a garden behind the old hospital. It is and it is open until sunset. I like (sit) there with a book. If you do not mind (walk) twenty minutes, go from the station rather than getting a bus. It is not you if you want (see) something famous — nothing happens there at all.
Put the four moves in the order the model uses them.
Three minutes, three places
The longest speaking stretch of the unit.
Task card · Speaking
Your three places, recommended to somebody who has never been to your city.
Three minutes, one minute each, four moves each. All three verb-pattern groups used correctly.
- Open each one with the reader: If you…
- One concrete fact per recommendation. No good, nice or interesting.
- Name who each one is not for.
- Then swap, and ask three questions about their three — and choose one you would actually do.
Stop at ninety seconds and answer. Then carry on.
1. How many places have you covered?
2. Have you named who each one is not for?
Which one would they do
Your teacher has chosen one of your three. Ask which, and why — and specifically, which sentence decided them.
It will almost never be the one you thought was strongest.
Answer before your teacher reads the pattern counts.
1. Which group slipped most?
2. Did you use all three banned words?
3. Which sentence decided your teacher?
Carry the log
One question.
1. What comes first in a recommendation?
Before Lesson 6. Write down the two pattern errors you are most sure you made — from memory, without asking.
Lesson 6 compares your two with the log.