What's Your Phone Number? — Teacher Edition

1

Listening

10 minutes

Say to student:

"What's Sara's phone number? Can you remember? Let's practice numbers and days!"

Dialogue: Sara and Mark (from L01) meet again. They exchange phone numbers and plan to see each other.

Mark and Sara

Here is the text from the listening. Read along and check your answers.

What's your phone number?

5, 5, 3, 8, 6, 9, 0.

5, 5, 3, 8, 6, 9, 0?

Yes!

OK! What day is your class?

Monday and Wednesday.

See you on Thursday?

Thursday! See you. Bye!

Bye!

or click any bubble to hear one line

Comprehension:

1. What's Sara's phone number?

2. Who asks for the phone number first?

3. What days is Sara's class?

4. When do they meet?

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Language Focus

12 minutes

Grammar: (recycling) verb be + What's your...?

Form	Structure
Affirmative	I am (I'm) ___. / You are (You're) ___.
Negative	I am not (I'm not) ___. / You are not (You're not) ___.
Interrogative	What's your ___? — What day is your ___?

Examples:

What's your name? — I'm Sara.

What's your phone number? — It's 5, 5, 3, 8.

What day is your class? — Monday and Wednesday.

What's = What + is (mesmo padrão: I'm = I + am).

Try it!

1. What your name? ('s / 're / 'm)

2. What day your class? (is / am / are)

3. What your phone number? ('s / 're / 'm)

4. Today Monday. (is / am / are)

Answers: 1. 's | 2. is | 3. 's | 4. is

Common Errors

What is your name? → What's your name?
Na fala, sempre contracted: What's (não 'What is').

What are your phone number? → What's your phone number?
Phone number é singular → What IS / What's.

Explicação (PT-BR):
Reciclagem de I am = I'm, You are = You're. Novo: What's = What is. Padrão pergunta: What's your ___? = Qual e o seu ___? (nome, telefone, etc).

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Practice

15 minutes

Watch for:
- Phone numbers: digit by digit (five-five-three...), NEVER grouped. Brazilians tend to group.
- Three /θriː/: tongue between teeth. Error #1 — students say 'tree' /triː/. Exaggerate the /θ/.
- Wednesday /wenzdi/: the 'd' is silent. Write on the board and cross out the 'd'.
- Thursday /θɜːrzdi/ vs Tuesday /tuːzdi/: similar sounds for Brazilians. Exaggerate the /θ/.
- Capital letters: days ALWAYS capitalized in English. Different from Portuguese (segunda, terca...).
- What's: contraction of 'What is'. Teach as fixed expression: 'What's your ___?' = 'Qual e o seu ___?'

Numbers 0-5

Match the number to the word.

Column A

0

1

2

3

4

5

Column B

zero

one

five

two

three

four

Answer Key:
0 = zero
1 = one
2 = two
3 = three
4 = four
5 = five

Numbers 6-10

Match the number to the word.

Column A

6

7

8

9

10

Column B

nine

ten

eight

seven

six

Answer Key:
6 = six
7 = seven
8 = eight
9 = nine
10 = ten

Practice — Numbers and Days

Read each prompt out loud. Use the EXACT phrase — and ADAPT for your real number/day.

1. Someone asks: 'What's your phone number?' Reply with your real number, slowly: 'It's nine, eight, seven...'

2. Count out loud from one to ten: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

3. Your teacher says: 'See you on Friday!' Reply: 'See you on Friday! Have a good weekend!'

Days of the Week

Put the days in the correct order, from Monday to Sunday.

ThursdayMondaySaturdayWednesdayFridayTuesdaySunday

Answer Key:
1. Monday → Tuesday → Wednesday → Thursday → Friday → Saturday → Sunday

Numbers and Days from the Dialogue

Complete the sentences with words from the box.

fiveMondayThursdayWednesdayzero

1. Sara's phone number has two s.

2. Sara's phone number ends in .

3. Sara's class is on and Wednesday.

4. Mark and Sara meet on .

Answer Key:
1. five
2. zero
3. Monday
4. Thursday

4

Let's Talk

13 minutes

Let's Talk!

Use what you learned today to answer these questions. Elaborate as much as you can!

Real personal info — answer about YOUR life, not the dialogue.

1. What's your favorite day of the week? Why?

Follow-up: Mine is [day] too! / Mine is different — it's [day].

Target: My favorite day is ___. / ___.

Expected answer: Saturday.

Tip: Forces production of a day name without the dialogue script. Accept short answer; if student adds reason in Portuguese, repeat in English: 'because no work / because pizza day / because family'.

2. How many people are in your family? Count them with me.

Follow-up: Wow, [number]! That's a big/small family!

Target: There are ___ people. (one, two, three...)

Expected answer: Five.

Tip: Recycles numbers 0-10 in a NEW context (not phone numbers). Force counting out loud. Accept just the number; build to 'There are X people.'

3. What's your phone number? (you can change one digit if you want!)

Follow-up: Got it! Let me read it back: ___, ___, ___...

Target: It's ___, ___, ___, ___, ___, ___, ___.

Expected answer: 5, 5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

Tip: Forces digit-by-digit production (not grouped — 'five-five-one' NOT 'fifty-five'). Accept teacher reading numbers back to confirm comprehension. Brazilian habit: group digits — corrigir gentilmente.

4. What day is today and what day is tomorrow?

Follow-up: And the day after tomorrow is ___?

Target: Today is ___. Tomorrow is ___.

Expected answer: Today is Monday. Tomorrow is Tuesday.

Tip: Real-time application — checa no calendário do dia. Push: 'And yesterday?' (recycles 'yesterday was' do ex5). Se aluno chuta o dia errado, corrigir gentilmente apontando pro calendário.

Extension activity: Aluno rapido: ditar numeros de telefone (professor escreve e confere). Contar de 10 a 0 (countdown). Dizer os dias ao contrario (Sunday to Monday).

Self-Assessment

How did you do today?

✓
I can count from zero to ten.
✓
I can say the days of the week.
✓
I can say my phone number in English.

Great work today!

Next class: countries! Where are you from? He's from Brazil. She's from Japan.