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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
6 Find Out and Retell

The activity aims to have students talk about sequential actions through a pair work activity. It also
enables students to discover using a diagram to depict the relationships/sequential actions through a
visual and graphic display.

Materials and Preparation
An empty diagram sheet on page 76
As a preparation, the teacher photocopies the empty diagram sheet for each student.

Procedure
1 Put students into pairs. Hand out the empty diagram sheet to each student.
2 Give students some time to think about the events of a particular day.
3 Ask them to describe different events that occurred on that day using key words (e.g. get up, have
breakfast, go camping, etc.)
4 Remind them that they should describe these events randomly.
5 After students have completed their descriptions, ask them to pair up and swap the sheets.
6 Each student will then try to guess the correct order of each other’s activities.
7 Monitor and guide them while they are carrying out the task.
8 As the final step, have the volunteers present their works.

7 That’s Our Story

The activity aims to have students focus on sentences related to a series of past actions and put them
into the correct order to form the real-life story involved.

Materials and Preparation
Strips of paper with individual sentences on
Cut out the sentences of the story, given in the form of two halves, provided on page 77 along the
dotted lines. The sentences that make up either half of the story is a set. In order for the activity to run
smoothly, you should have 4 sets (story halves) of strips.

Procedure

1 Divide the class into two main groups and then, divide these main groups into two subgroups.
2 Hand out the sets of strips (story halves) to the subgroups.
3 Tell them that each sub-group is holding one half of a story and that the other subgroup of their
main group (their partner sub-group) has the other half. When the subgroups have finished putting
the sentences into the correct order, they will have completed half of the story and are required to
work together with their partner subgroups to decide which part of the story is the beginning and
which one is the ending. To do this, they need to read their story halves aloud to one another. Once
they have made the decision, they will have completed the task as a main group. The main group to
finish with the correct form of the story will be the winner.

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