Part One: Warm Up
Discuss the following questions with your partner(s).
- What are the responsibilities of a citizen in your country?
- What is the process of becoming a citizen in your country? Do they need to stay in the country for a period of time? Do they need to pay a certain amount of money? Take an exam?
- Can people in your country have dual citizenship with another country?
Part Two: Listening / Giving and Receiving Instructions
Your class will be divided into two groups. Follow the instruction on each tab.
Listening
Open Exercise #1. There, you will watch the video on how to take the citizenship test of Canada. After you finish watching the video and doing the first exercise, come back to the lesson again.
Giving and Receiving Instructions
When we want to indicate steps in a process, we use sequencing language to let the listener know what steps to follow. We can use a variety of transitions:
Ordinal numbers
- First
- Second
- Third
- ...
Other transitions
- Then
- After
- Last
- Next
- Afterwards
- Finally
- After that
When we give instructions and we want to check if the person understands us, we can use these expressions:
Checking for Understanding
- Got it?
- Do you follow?
- Are you following me?
- Do you understand?
- Any questions?
Go back to the exercise and do Section #2.
After you finish, watch the video with the whole class and check your answers together.
Once you are done, go over the Further Discussion questions (Section #3).
Listening
Open Exercise #2. There, you will discuss the Warm Up questions again, but based on Canada. Feel free to research the information on the Internet. After you finish discussing and answering questions, come back to the lesson again.
Giving and Receiving Instructions
When we receive instructions we can use these expressions:
Showing Understanding
- I see.
- Ok, I got what you mean.
- I understand.
- I got it.
Repeating
- Pardon me? (rising intonation)
- Sorry? (rising intonation)
- I’m sorry, I didn’t quite catch that.
- Could you say that again?
- I’m sorry, I still didn’t get that.
- One more time?
- What was that again?
Clarifying
- Could you say it in another way?
- Can you clarify that for me?
- Could you rephrase that?
- When you say…, do you mean…?
Confirming
- Let me see if I understood you correctly. You’re saying that…
- So, what you’re saying is…
- So, in other words…
Now go to the exercise and start Section #2.
After you finish, watch the video with the whole class and check your answers together.
Once you are done, go over the Further Discussion questions (Section #3).