[credit to innersloth]

In this functional language 60-minute lesson, which is based on the popular

video game ‘Among Us’, the students will learn how to express their opinion.
By the end of the lesson, they will have the language to effectively participate
in the game’s argumentative meetings. They will work together to reconstruct
a dialogue and then construct an original one. They will give peer-feedback
and finally play the game while focusing on using the target language.

Age: Teenagers/Adults
Level: B1 - C1
Time: 60 minutes
Outcomes:
• To develop the students’ conversation skills
• To develop the students’ ability to express an opinion using a variety of phrases
• To develop the students’ vocabulary with new phrases to agree and disagree
• To develop the students’ reasoning skills

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 1. Lead-in
a. Show your students the following photo
b. Ask them ’One of the suspects has eaten the emperor’s sandwich. Who did it
and why?
c. Of course, there is no correct answer in this task. The purpose is to activate
any previously taught language and get your students talking!

Fuzzball Suspects https://www.flickr.com/photos/49462908@N00/4402331978

[credits to DocChewbacca]

2. Vocabulary - dictogloss
a. Ask your students what kind of phrases they used to introduce their opinion.
The most usual phrases that come up is ‘I think’ or ‘in my opinion’, however,
we need to expand their repertoire with a few more complex phrases.
b. Tell your students that now they are going to focus on sharing their opinion.
Ask your students to:
i. Now listen carefully but don’t write anything yet.

• In my opinion, the impostor was the red as he was near the

dead body when I entered the room.
• I couldn’t agree more, if he was there he has to be the
impostor.
• I see your point but what if he was just passing by?
• Yes, I think so too.
• That’s nonsense, the impostor is definitely him.
• For me it is the yellow, he is always close the room with the
dead person but never inside.
• Yes, I agree up to a point, but this doesn’t prove that he is
the impostor.
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 • That’s true.
• Shall we pass this turn?
• Certainly.
• I’m on the same page.
• Do you think so? I’m not so sure but I will trust you.

c. Now tell your students to listen one more time. Tell them:
i. While listening, write down phrases that are used to introduce ideas,
agree and disagree.
d. Elicit an example for each, introducing ideas, agreeing and disagreeing before
you start reading.
e. After, you’ve finished put the students in pairs.
i. Tell them: Now in pairs, rewrite the dialogue.
f. If this is an online lesson, put your students in breakout rooms for this
exercise. In both f2f and online lessons makes sure you go around helping
your students to reconstruct the dialogue.

3. Writing task
a. Give your students this map from the game called ‘Skeld’ (A larger version of
the map can be found at the end of this document)
b. Put your students into groups of four. Tell them that 5 people are playing
together. Ask them to:
i. Write a dialogue like the previous for an ‘Among Us’ gaming session.
You should:
1. Decide in which rooms the characters will be. They don’t have to
be in the same
2. Use phrases to express an opinion, agree and disagree in their
dialogue.
3. Justify each character’s opinion, saying why they agree or
disagree.

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 4. Feedback –
a. Ask the groups to exchange their dialogues with another one from a different
group. Each group should check the dialogues and check the correct use of
the phrases to introduce opinion, agree and disagree.
b. Go around/Enter the breakout rooms and help the groups with the feedback.
c. While doing this, you can note down any mistakes that are worth reviewing
with the whole class and if necessary, add a whole classroom feedback stage
after your students have finished correcting each other’s’ dialogues.

5. Follow-up – Role-Play
a. If you have time, you can ask your students to roleplay the dialogues they
have constructed

6. Speaking practise
a. At this point, your students should be ready to play a game of ‘Among Us’
using the target language from today’s lesson.
b. One very important thing to consider when you play the game is that the in-
game chatbox or the voice chat that you are going to use might quickly turn
into chaos. Consider that you are going to be part of the game, I would
suggest introducing a way for people to ask for the floor before they start
writing or saying something. This will ensure, a stress-free environment for all
students and focus on the use of the target language!
c. Another thing to remember is that even though the mobile phone version of
the game is free, the PC version isn’t.

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Anthony

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We aim to improve every teacher’s life, by reducing their workload without them
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