Jo Bertrand, Teacher, Materials writer, British Council, Paris

Level - Pre -Intermediate and above

In this lesson plan the students will have plenty of opportunities to express themselves on the use of mobile phones in public and how they themselves use mobile phones. They will create and perform telephone conversations, decipher mini text messages, then write and send their own. The lesson plan considers the importance of mobile phones for people today and how 'texting' has changed the way they communicate.

Plan components

Lesson Plan: - guide for teacher on procedure including worksheet tasks and answers to tasks.

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Worksheets: - exercises which can be printed out for use in class. The worksheet contains:

• A warmer activity
• A dialogue reconstruction task
• A role play activity
• A text message reading and writing activity
• A discussion task

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For more information about this topic you can visit these BBC and British Council sites:-

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This page from the British Council's LearnEnglish website has a magazine article with interactive exercise on the subject of mobile phones.

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