Reading · Speaking · Mediation
HARRY & LAYLA
INFORMATION GAP
Become an expert, protect your secret text, ask smart questions and reconstruct your partner's profile.
HARRY & LAYLA
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Session menu
8 steps · 50 min
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Warm-up · Work experience
5 min
Brainstorm
What information can we give when we talk about a work experience?
Click only the categories you hear from the class. No ready-made questions yet.
Our work-experience profile can include: …
2
Secret mission
3 min
Information gap
Your text is secret. Your partner needs your information.
📖 Read your own text
🙈 Don't show it
🗣️ Answer questions
Distribute the sheets alternately: A / B / A / B…
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Activity 1 · Read your text
7 min
EXPERT A · Read Harry's secret report
EXPERT B · Read Layla's secret report
Don't translate every word. Find the important information first: past verbs · people · places.
4
Activity 2 · Become the expert
7 min
Key words only
Turn your report into short notes. You must be ready to explain your character's experience.
Write key words, not long sentences.
5
Activity 3 · Interview your partner
12 min
Remember: DID + subject + base verb. Example allowed: Where did Layla work?
Question Builder Toolbox
Use the toolbox as a visual aid. Build at least five different questions and say the complete question yourself.
WH- words
WHERE
WHAT
WHO
HOW
WHY
Auxiliary
DID
WAS / WERE
Subject
HARRY
LAYLA
HE / SHE
Verbs · base form
work
do
help
meet
learn
enjoy
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Activity 4 · Reconstruct the other profile
8 min
No peeking
Use only the information your partner gave you. Write full sentences in the past tense.
📍 Where?…
🧰 Activities…
👥 People…
💡 What did they learn?…
💬 Opinion / feelings…
🧭 Future plans…
Choose the character you did not read about.
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Activity 5 · Compare
5 min
Compare
Find at least one similarity and one difference.
🟢 Similarities
🟠 Differences
Use these words if they help you. This is not a new grammar lesson.
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Exit ticket
3 min
Before you leave
What did you need today to get information from your partner?
Then give me one good question in the past tense.
My good past-tense question: …
Possible strategy words: questions · listen · past tense.
