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THEME 4 TRADITIONS

FUNCTIONS
F1 Describing habits and routines in the past
10 GRADE F2 Making oral presentations on a specific topic
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7 Here Comes the Pace

The activity aims to have students give a presentation by giving examples of their (grand) parents’ lives
as youths or teenagers and how they are going through those ages today. This contrastive presentation
is expected to raise students’ awareness about sociocultural and technological changes in everyday life
within decades.

Materials and Preparation
Presentation sheet sets
The teacher photocopies the presentation sheet sets provided on pages 95-99 as many as the number
of groups.

Procedure
1 Put students into groups of four or five.
2 Hand out the presentation sheet sets to the groups.
3 Inform students about the details of the activity. Tell them that there is a topic on each of the presentation
sheets and that they are required to give a presentation on that topic by giving examples of their
(grand) parents’ lives and those of their own as in the examples given for the topic of “education” below:
E.g. 1
My grandfather used to go to school on Saturdays when he was in secondary school. Today, we go
to school only on weekdays.
E.g. 2.
My mother says they used to spend a lot of time looking up in reference books to learn things as
there was no Internet. Today, thanks to the Internet, access to knowledge is just a click away. This is
a great advantage.
4 Give students ten minutes to discuss, search and make their notes on the presentation sheets for
use in their presentations. Once they are done with the preparation, have them (either as individual
representatives of the groups or as a whole group) give their presentations.

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