Instructional Material English for Communication Thiratchapon Kamsa-ard M.A. (Applied Linguistics) Office of General Education Udon Thani Rajabhat University 2017 i Preface According to a policy of education, Ministry of Education (2014) aimed to reform about teaching English in Thailand with an international methodology. Office of the Basic Education Commission (2015) proposed the Common European Framework of Reference for language (CEFR) for supporting the effectiveness of Thai students’ English for communication (Office of the Basic Education Commission, 2015). Therefore, this instructional material has been designed and developed in the course of English for communication at Udon Thani Rajabhat University in order to support English teaching and learning in the international standard. Besides, the main focus of this material aims to prepare the learners to be able to participate and learn English in communicative language teaching environment (based on CEFR). The communicative tasks and the activities are designed for enhancing the learners’ learning. The tasks and the activities allow the learners to have opportunity to practice English listening, speaking, reading and writing skills for basic communication in and outside class. The material also provides the conversational dialogues, the useful expressions, vocabulary and language focuses. The learners have opportunity to do the communicative tasks such as information-gap tasks, discussion tasks, and monoloig tasks. They need to work in group, pair and individually. This course also promotes learners’ learning in 21st century. Besides the knowledge that the learners will gain from the course contents, they need to work cooperatively and use interpersonal skills in and outside class. The course contents contain six units. Each unit focuses on a different theme as follows: greetings and introductions, asking and giving directions, describing things, places and people, going shopping, telephoning, and expressing feeling and opinions. I would be grateful for Prof. Nash Jeffry from Udon Thani Rajabhat University who proof-read this instructional material. I am grateful to Prof. John Draper from Khon Kaen University and Prof. Steve Graham from American University of Phnom Penh for your help. This instructional material will not be finished without their help for recording British accent. I have enjoyed working on this instructional material and I hope that it is helpful for improving communication in English. Thiratchapon Kamsa-ard 2017 iii Table of Contents Page Preface................................................................................................................................................................................ i Table of Contents....................................................................................................................................................... iii Course Syllabus........................................................................................................................................................... v Course Syllabus Unit 1....................................................................................................................................... 1 Unit 1 Greetings and Introductions...................................................................................................... 3 Greetings......................................................................................................................................................... 5 Introductions................................................................................................................................................ 9 Reference........................................................................................................................................................ 21 Course Syllabus Unit 2....................................................................................................................................... 23 Unit 2 Asking for and Giving Directions.......................................................................................... 25 Asking for the Directions................................................................................................................... 26 Giving the Directions............................................................................................................................ 28 Reference........................................................................................................................................................ 38 Course Syllabus Unit 3....................................................................................................................................... 39 Unit 3 Describing Things, Places, and People............................................................................. 41 Describing Places..................................................................................................................................... 41 Describing Things.................................................................................................................................... 49 Describing People.................................................................................................................................... 72 Reference........................................................................................................................................................ 76 Course Syllabus Unit 4....................................................................................................................................... 77 Unit 4 Going Shopping...................................................................................................................................... 79 Shopping at Different Shops........................................................................................................... 79 Complaints.................................................................................................................................................... 85 Returning the Products......................................................................................................................... 87 Negotiating the Price............................................................................................................................. 88 Asking and Indicating the Price.................................................................................................... 89 Shopping Idioms....................................................................................................................................... 91 Reference........................................................................................................................................................ 96 iv Table of Contents (Cont.) Page Course Syllabus Unit 5....................................................................................................................................... 97 Unit 5 Telephoning............................................................................................................................................... 99 Asking and Responding on the Telephone........................................................................... 101 Making an Appointment..................................................................................................................... 101 Taking and Learning a Message................................................................................................... 105 Clarifying the Inconvenience.......................................................................................................... 110 Asking for Clarifications.................................................................................................................... 112 Reference........................................................................................................................................................ 117 Course Syllabus Unit 6....................................................................................................................................... 119 Unit 6 Expressing feelings, Opinions and Giving suggestions...................................... 121 Congratulating............................................................................................................................................ 121 Thanking......................................................................................................................................................... 123 Responding to Thank............................................................................................................................ 125 Apologizing.................................................................................................................................................. 126 Sympathy........................................................................................................................................................ 129 Giving Suggestions................................................................................................................................. 131 Expressing Opinions.............................................................................................................................. 143 Reference.......................................................................................................................................................