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THEME 1 SCHOOL LIFE

FUNCTIONS
F1 Exchanging personal information in both formal and informal language
10 GRADE F2 Taking part in a conversation in everyday life situations
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7 Let’s Talk

The activity aims to support students’ speaking skills by allowing them to take part in conversations in
everyday life situations.

Materials and Preparation
Cards on page 25, pencils

Procedure
1 Give each student a card with a topic for a short talk.
2 Let students walk around and match up with the student who holds the same card. If the number of
students is odd, the teacher may copy more cards and/or create groups of three.
3 Let students study the sentences given as conversation starters and plan how to start the dialogs.
Give them 2 minutes for the preparation.
4 Tell them to extend the dialogs to match up to the time given, 3 minutes.
5 Let them take notes during the conversations and report as many sentences as possible about their
partners’ statements/preferences as the last step of the activity.

8 Guess the Topic

The activity aims to have students practice the structures used in everyday life situations.

Materials and Preparation
Information cards on page 26

Procedure
1 Divide the class into two teams.
2 Tell them the rules of the game.
3 Have each team choose a representative and explain that each representative comes forward to
choose a card.
4 Toss up for the first group.
5 Have the representative of the first team pick a card and study it (Set a time limit of 2-3 minutes to
think on it).
6 When the time is up, tell the representative to talk about the expressions on the card without using
the forbidden words and the team to guess.
7 Assign a student from the other team to check whether the player uses the forbidden words or not.
8 Give each team 3 minutes to make the correct guess.
9 Award two points for each correct guess. Should the player use a forbidden expression, the team
will fail.
10 Tell students that the team with higher score wins the game.

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