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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
5 Chain Drill

This activity aims to have students express their ideas in unplanned situations.

Materials and Preparation
Situation cards on page 44
Before the activity, cut out the situation cards.

Procedure
1 Divide the class into groups of four or five depending on the class size.
2 Give each group a situation card randomly.
3 Ask students to discuss the situations on their card(s) for 5 minutes and make sentences using
“will” or “will not (won’t)” related to the situations given.
4 Ask each student in each group to repeat the previous sentence(s) and add one more sentence or
expression to the chain.
5 Award 1 point for each acceptable new sentence and mark it on a score sheet.
6 Remind students that the group with the longest sentence chain and the highest score wins the
game.
7 Carry on the game with another card.
E.g. Situation: It’s snowy.
Student 1: I will put on my coat.
Student 2: I will put on my coat and wear my scarf.
Student 3: I will put on my coat, wear my scarf and go out.
Student 4: I will put on my coat, wear my scarf, go out and make a snowman.
Student 5: I will put on my coat, wear my scarf, go out, make a snowman and play snowball
with my friends.

6 That’s My Friend

The activity aims to have students express opinions in unplanned situations and guess their friends’
opinions, which is to bring fun and boost acquaintance.

Materials and Preparation
The dialog sheet on page 45
Copy the dialog sheet for each student.

Procedure
1 Put students into pairs. Hand out the sheets with the incomplete dialogs to be completed on.
2 Ask students to read the dialogs and complete them by choosing either of the choices provided (the
choice which is closer to what their ideas would be in the unplanned situations given). Remind them
that their partners should not see their answers.
3 Once the students are finished with the task, have them make guesses about their partner’s answers
for each dialog. The partner, then, shares her/his answer and if the guess of the partner is correct,
the pair is awarded 1 point. The pair(s) with the highest score is/are the winner(s).

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