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This activity is designed to facilitate learners' functional capacity to make an apology.

Outcome: Learners will be able to use critical structures (i.e., a primary apology, an internal modifier, and an external mitigator) to make an apology. This is intended as an output activity. It would be preceded by a series of input tasks in which they begin to work with the structures necessary to complete the target function.

Resources: Apologizing Output Sheet

Procedure:

1. Begin by having learners brainstorm the structures they need to make an apology in each of three different scenarios.
2. Have learners apologize to one another using the structures they know in each of the different scenarios. While they are working on the task, walk around the room collecting critical errors to be used during the reflection phase.
3. Reflection: Have learners work together to correct errors the instructor has heard as the task was being completed. Primary focus should be placed on correcting only those errors relevant to the function and could be grammatical, lexical or pragmatic.