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THEME 6 HELPFUL TIPS

FUNCTIONS
F1 Giving and receiving advice
10 GRADE F2 Talking about rules and regulations
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F3 Talking about consequences
11 Stanza Creation

The stanza creation activity is expected to give students an opportunity to write and talk about consequences
through creating stanzas in a given template.

Materials and Preparation
The template for the activity on page 154
The teacher photocopies and cuts out the template as many as the number of students.

Procedure
1 Hand out the stanza creation template to students.
2 Explain students what they are going to do through the template. Tell them that they are going to
create stanzas. The first stanza will be made up of an imperative giving a message in favor of nature/
environment. The second stanza has already been given. All they need to do about it is to decide on
either the affirmative or negative form. The aim of the third stanza is to tell the consequence/s when
the imperative in the first stanza is followed/not followed. As for the creation of the third stanza, allow
students to look up in reference books, articles and online resources as it is highly probable that the
content will be scientific.
3 Present students with the model stanzas in the example below so that they will have a better
understanding of what they are expected to do. Tell them that rhymes make poems sound better and,
if possible, they should consider using words rhyming with one another in the first and third stanzas.

E.g. Line 1: Plant trees. (Imperative in favor of nature/environment)
Line 2: If you don’t,
Line 3: You will suffer, seriously, from difficulties. (Consequence(s))

4 Give them 10 minutes to work on the template. Once they are finished, have them read their stanzas
out for their friends. Tell students to give a round of applause for each other.

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