Intonation: offers, requests and polite refusals at the dinner table
Phonics · Intonation · B2 · 30 min. Learn how intonation makes offers, requests and refusals sound friendly at a Thanksgiving dinner: choose the tone for each sentence, check statements, match offers with polite replies, complete polite refusals and practice in a teacher-led drill and a dinner table role play.
About this worksheet
Learn how intonation makes offers, requests and refusals sound friendly at a Thanksgiving dinner: choose the tone for each sentence, check statements, match offers with polite replies, complete polite refusals and practice in a teacher-led drill and a dinner table role play.
- Level
- B2
- Category
- Phonics
- Topic
- Intonation
- Time
- About 30 minutes
- Exercises
- Grammar explanation box, Multiple choice, True / False, Matching, Gap-fill, Speaking / writing task, Table to fill in
- Answer key
- Included
- Access
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On the sheet
- Grammar explanation box: Intonation at the table
- Multiple choice: Say each sentence aloud. Which tone is most natural on the word in cap
- True / False: Are these statements about intonation true (T) or false (F)?
- Matching: Match each offer or request with the most natural polite reply.
- Gap-fill: Complete the polite replies with words from the box. Then say them alo
- Speaking / writing task: Around the table: a drill and a role play.
- Table to fill in: Listen to your group. Write five offers or replies you hear and mark t
