How are you?
I’m fine thanks.

Where are you from?
I’m from Scotland/England/America/ Canada/Japan.

Was your journey ok?
Yes thanks.

Are you hungry/thirsty/tired?
Yes I am/no I’m not.

Would you like some water/food/to lie down?
Yes thanks.

Yes thanks.

Model with student

Are you tired? Changed to: Are you sleepy?  I elicited sleepy from them so changed it.
Things that need recapped:
Group B had difficulty remembering the health TPR.
Neither group knew ‘journey’, and when asked to practice they often forgot to ask ‘was your journey ok?’  and needed prompting.
Group B had better teaching on ‘Are you thirsty/hungry/tired.’’ Would you like some water/food/to lie down.’
Group A need to have responses introduced as well as revised – but it didn’t take long at all when I did it with group B.

Problems students had:

Wanted to say ‘yes ok’ instead of ‘ok thanks, or ‘yes thanks.’
Mixed up ‘would you like’ with ‘was your’.
Pronunciation: journey, hungry, sleepy (suleep) , would (woos), was (watch), not running ‘wherah’ together – comes out as ‘wheya - ah’,
The order of the dialogue (see fill the gap sheet & running dictation sheet) was a lot for them to take in, if we’re adding more language we may need to work on making sure they can be flexible – perhaps by working on matching particular questions and responses OR fixing an order and sticking with it.

Things that worked well:

Half class drill worked well in that it wasn’t faultless, but it helped them figure out the order of the dialogue and prepared them for pair work.
Running dictation was good for waking them up, but class B started to shout across the room instead of running.  Helps with spelling & pronunciation too.
Matching up word with picture vocab check, worked ok.
Cut up pieces of dialogue, gave each student a piece and tried to get them to go in order.  This worked ok but I couldn’t really tell if it helped them with the language – I think it would be better to put it later in the lesson.
Interviews with farang was good practice and let me see more clearly where the problems were.

Things that didn’t work well:

I took out pronouns & question words to help them focus on those parts of speech, it worked ok but they started writing the dialogue alongside my dialogue instead of just filling in the gaps, totally my fault for assuming it was self explanatory – although I did explain it!
I also got them to read out only those words (pronouns & question words) to further focus them but ultimately general grammar work will need to be done before it all comes together.
Didn’t do any pronunciation.
Group A I cocked up and introduced ‘How was your journey?” Ok thanks, and then had to change it to ‘was your journey ok’.  I chose the second one for this lesson because it’s a closed question and doesn’t encourage tourists to use a lot of language in response.