speaking assignment for Friday

Hi everyone,

I spoke to the head of the English Department about your request to miss class tomorrow. I know some of you live far away and have other family and job responsibilities; therefore I'm giving you two options for tomorrow's class. I will be in class and you have to choose one of the following options.

(1) Come to class tomorrow and listen to / sing some love songs in English and have a conversation with me. This will count as a speaking evaluation.

(2) Find two partners from your class, choose role A, B, or C, memorize the following dialog and present it in class Friday for a speaking evaluation.

A: We need to decide how to increase sales this month. Any ideas?

B: What about offering some discounts?

C: That’s a good idea but our prices are already cheaper than our competitors.

B: So why not send some advertising to customers? We could tell them about our prices.

B: I like that. I think we also need to use Internet and email more.

C: What do you mean?

B: Well, perhaps we could email some of our old customers and update the website?

C: That’s true. Our website is the same as it was six months ago.

A: OK. I’ll deal with that.

C: What about inviting someone from the local newspaper to visit the factory and show them our new range?

A: Brilliant! But I think we should invite all the newspapers.

C: I’m not sure about that. Do you think they would come?

B: We could at least try and see what happens.

Happy Valentine's Day!