Page 11 - English 10 | Games and Activities-3

THEME 3 LEGENDARY FIGURE

FUNCTIONS
F1 Describing past activities and events
10 GRADE F2 Talking about sequential actions
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F3 Describing characters and settings in an event in the past
10 Story Chain Drill

The activity aims to have students describe characters and settings in an event in the past. It also makes
it possible for students to enhance creativity and self-confidence.

Materials and Preparation
Copies of the dice and board game on page 81
A piece of paper
As a preparation, the teacher cuts out the dice patterns in the appendix, makes the dice and hands them
out to each group.

Procedure
1 Put students into groups of four or five, depending on the size of the class.
2 Have each student roll the dice in turns and go to the square corresponding to the number gotten
from the dice.
3 Ask each student to make a sentence related to the picture in the square. Explain them that they are
going to make up a story describing characters and setting in a past event in turns, so the sentences
should be meaningful and related to each other.
4 Remind students that they can take some notes while creating their story. Emphasize that at the end
of the game, they should create their story in at least 8 sentences. The teacher should check whether
the sentences are correct or not.
5 Tell them that the first group to finish their story will be the winner.
6 When the time is up, ask the representative of each group to read their story aloud.

11 2 Women 1 Story

The activity aims to have students discuss to come up with relevant settings and characters for a given
story.

Materials and Preparation
The news story (audio script) provided on page 70
Settings for the women in the news story provided on page 82
Copy the settings (as many as the number of the groups).

Procedure
1 Put students into groups of four.
2 Ask them to listen to the news story in the recording carefully. Emphasize that they needn’t note
down anything and that they will be asked to come up with a setting for the story.
3 Have them listen once more.
4 Now, allow the groups to discuss and write relevant settings for both of the women covered in the
news story.
5 When they are finished, have them share their settings with the class orally.
6 Finally, hand out the original settings to the groups so that they can evaluate their work.

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