1. Have the video suggested in the “Materiales Educativos Digitales” section ready to show it to students and download the file suggested as well for the next activity.

2. Tell students they are going to listen to a dialog between two girls and they will have to answer some questions about that.

3. Encourage students to focus on the expressions used when one of the girls in inviting the other to a party and how the invitation is accepted.

4. Ask students to listen carefully or read, the video has subtitles, so they can have two different types of channels to work on comprehension.

5. Write on the board the headlines: WHAT / WHO / WHEN / WHERE and tell students  to focus on the events mentioned in the dialog which respond to the question words. That is, what the invitation is about, when and where it will take place, etc. as as many other contexts can fit these categories.

6. Play the video and make several pauses to help students write the information on the columns. Help with vocabulary as needed but do not comment on anything else until the video is finished.

7. Invite 4 students to come to the front and choose one of the WH_ columns.  Then, ask them to write information they have.

8. Play the video again if necessary in case students missed part of the information.

9. Have a second round of students to complete the WH_ information since WHAT can have more pieces of information that WHEN, for example.

10. Check answers and talk about ‘the invitation’.

11. Tell students this is an interactive exercise : a  party invitation they need to read, then, chose the correct words to complete the gaps.

12. Ask students to read the email or read it for them, and invite them to write the answers in their notebooks. Monitor and offer help with grammar and vocabulary.

13. Invite students to check their answers in pairs.

14. Invite 5 volunteers to come to the front and type their answers in the gaps. Then, click the ‘check’ button.

15. Correct and discuss answers with students.

1. Have the beam projector ready to show the interactive worksheet suggested in the “Materiales Educativos Digitales” section and download the file suggested as well for the next activity.

(You can download the activity if you decide on registering , however, you can project it and work with students in your classroom)

2. Tell students Marco received an invitation for Lia’s birthday party and they need to read it to answer 10 questions about it.

3. Ask students what kind of present they would take to a 10-year old girl.

4. Show the text and ask students to read it. Encourage students to work on their own since the format of the activity is quite simple as well as the comprehension questions.

5. Set a time limit for students to choose their answers. Monitor.

6. When time is up, invite students to work in groups of three and check and discuss their answers.

7. Review some vocabulary about birthdays parties so

distribute the word search and ask students to read the words. Do they know them all?

8. Before they start finding the words, ask students to choose three words from that list and write sentences with them.

9. Invite some students to read their sentences by asking, “who chose ‘cake’?” and ask those students to read their sentences for everybody to see how different the word was used.

10. Ask students to do the word search and  invite them to check answers in pairs.

1. Have the beam projector ready to show the interactive worksheets suggested in the “Materiales Educativos Digitales” section.

This activity can be projected or downloaded in PDF so decide the best way for you to work with it.

2. If you project the activity, start with the mind map and read it with the students.

3. Tell students they need to use those same words in the next exercise which is ‘fill in the blanks’.

4. Monitor and offer help as necessary since students will need to make sense out of the words, that is, comprehension.

5. Check answers with the class.

6. The next exercise is a fun one, students need to use again the words in the mind map and read the pictures in the text. Invite the class to do it first silently and then, when they are ready, ask the whole class to read it aloud at the same time.

7. This interactive worksheet has two pages. I suggest you work with “Pam’s birthday”which is a reading comprehension activity and can be given as a quiz. However, if you think the previous exercise would help your students review, project it before the reading.

8. Read the sentences 1-6 and make sure students understand them. It is a true-false activity.

9. Ask students to read silently the text or if you consider it is better you read them aloud for them and work with vocabulary, just make sure they are following the story.

10. Set a time limit for students to answer the questions in their notebooks and ask them to work in groups of three and check their answers.

11. Invite students to give you their answers and type it in the gap, then, continue with the birthday card activity. Click the ‘terminado’ button and see how they did.

12. Invite students to draw a birthday card, individually, for this birthday party. If some of the information is not in the text, invite students to be original and include it.