B) Discuss the questions below in pairs.

Who in your opinion were the articles written by: marketing manager of an international travel agency, high-school students who have had the experience? Why do you think so? What piece of advice seemed unexpected? Which tips were easy to predict? Which would you prefer: hosting a foreign student or travelling to live overseas?

A) Choose the function the modal verbs serve in the sentences below.

Possibility, impossibility, prohibition, request, ability

1. It can’t be simple to host a foreign person at your home. 2. Even if you think it could be annoying having an exchange student follow you around, or that they might think your life is boring, do it anyway. 3. A foreign student could immediately feel at home, but you’ll have to work on it. 4. In a host family you should always ask if you could do this or that. 5. If your exchange student can do a sport you are also fond of or you enjoy the same music and activities, you will definitely get along. 6. If you can’t host an exchange student because your parents are against it, apply for being an exchange student yourself. 7. You can’t participate in a programme like that unless you speak a foreign language. 8. If your classmates are also hosting students, you could help each other out.

b) Use the Grammar reference section to check your ideas, and then answer the questions about grammar at page …

C) Work in pairs. Discuss if you think the sentences in ex. 3a are true.

4. Work in pairs. Look at the articles in ex. 2 again. Find the modal verbs can, could, be able to in the text and discuss what functions they serve in each case.

A) Work in groups of 3. Prepare to role-play the following situations.

Situation 1:

A brilliant pupil wishes he went to study overseas and live in a host family for a year. The family are totally unsupportive. Father is dreaming of his child’s future career while mother thinks the separation would break her heart.

Situation 2:

The family have applied for being hosts for an exchange student. Their adolescent son/ daughter don’t see any reasons to do it, saying they wouldn’t tolerate a stranger in their home.

Situation 3:

A teenager is dreaming of hosting a foreign student next month. The family think the idea is half-baked and they are not ready yet.

b) Role-play the conversations in groups. What was the result in each situation?

LESSON 6: EXCHANGE STUDENTs’ TALES

Active vocabulary: worn out, crushed, mute, entirely, unsightly, prior to, gain

Communicative area: writing an e-mail

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