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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
1 Running Dictation

The activity aims to have students describe past activities and events through a collaborative dictation
activity. It makes it possible for teacher and students to go through a process in which the skills reading,
listening, writing and speaking are integrated. It also appeals to different learner types.

Materials and Preparation
Reading sheets on page 71
As a preparation, the teacher photocopies and cuts out the reading sheets and places them on the
board. For larger classes, it may be necessary to put the sheets on display at different points of the
classroom.

Procedure
1 Put students into groups of three, and let them decide on their roles as follows:
One student is the writer and the other two are the runners in turns. Tell them that the runners are
responsible for running to the texts displayed, reading them and, finally, running back to the group
and dictating the text to the writer. Emphasize that dictating longer sentences at a time will help
them finish earlier.
2 Tell them that this process continues until the text is complete.
3 Remind students that they should try to rewrite the text as similar as possible to the original one,
including the correct spelling and punctuation.
4 The first group to finish with the correct text will be the winner (The quality of the texts will be
evaluated by the teacher).
5 As for the review after the activity, hand out the copies of the text and ask students to check and
compare their works.

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