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THEME 2 PLANS

FUNCTIONS
F1 Describing future plans and arrangements
10 GRADE F2 Expressing one’s ideas in unplanned situations
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F3 Making oral presentations on a planned topic
3 Future Dominoes

The activity aims to have students create sentences related to describing future plans and arrangements
through a collaborative work.

Materials and Preparation
A set of dominoes for each pair of students.
Cut off the dominoes on page 43 along the dotted lines. Either student of each pair will have half of the
dominoes on one page.

Procedure
1 students o as out
equally.
2 Tell students the rules of the game. One of the students places a domino on the desktop and the
other one has to make a complete sentence by placing one of the dominoes s/he is holding at either
end of the one on the desktop. Students take it in turns to place their dominoes at either end of the
domino chain. Remind them that they should observe the triple dots and periods. Triple dots mean
that students can place a domino at that end.
3 In case of a disagreement on a sentence, the teacher is to make the final decision. The student
whose sentence is incorrect has to take back the domino and misses a turn. Likewise, the student
who fails to make a sentence misses the turn as well.
4 The game continues till one student uses up all her/his dominoes, or neither student can make a
correct sentence. The student to finish first or have fewer dominoes left is the winner.

4 Common Future

The activity aims to have students describe future plans and arrangements.

Materials and Preparation
Pieces of paper

Procedure
1 Put students into groups of four/five depending on the size of the class.
2 Write the following topics on the board.
EDUCATION, CAREER, THE PLACE OF RESIDENCE, MARRIAGE&CHILDREN, HOBBIES&INTERESTS
3 Ask students to think about what their lives are going to be like in the year 2040 and have them write
sentences related to the topics on the board, on pieces of paper.
4 Encourage students to be as creative as possible and write down as many details as they can.
5 Have students read their sentences aloud for the other members of the group in turns and take
notes about their friends’ sentences.
6 Then, let them revise their notes to find out what they have in common with the other members of
the group.
7 Finally, tell them to share what they have in common as in the example.
E.g. Selin and I have a common plan about the future.
Selin is going to do engineering and I’m going to do engineering, too.
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