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THEME 7 FOOD AND FESTIVALS

FUNCTIONS
F1 Talking about national and international festivals
10 GRADE F2 Describing actions and processes
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1 Ask and Learn

The activity aims to have students talk about national and international festivals. It is expected to help students
with their listening, writing, speaking, and reading skills. It facilitates improving collaboration among students.
Materials and Preparation
Reading texts on page 163
Information gap charts on page 164
As a preparation, the teacher copies and cuts out the reading texts and information gap charts.

Procedure
1 Put students into pairs and assign them as Student As and Student Bs.
2 Hand out Reading Text 1 to Student As and Reading Text 2 to Student Bs. Tell students to read
their texts silently.
3 Hand out the information gap charts. Tell students that they will be asking questions to their
partners, who have the text about the festival in full, to fill in the missing information on their
information gap charts. Emphasize that they will work in turns to fill in the information gap charts.
4 Give students 16 to 20 minutes for the task. Monitor and guide them while they are carrying out
the task.
5 Once they are finished with the work, have students share their answers. Make sure that students
have the same answers.

2 Dream Festival

The activity aims to have students talk about national and international dream festivals.

Materials and Preparation
The worksheet on page 165
The assessment rubric on page 166
As for preparation, the teacher photocopies the worksheet for each group and the assessment rubric for
each jury member. Then, the teacher puts some chairs and a table in front of the board for a jury corner.

Procedure
1 Divide the class into four or five groups. Pick a representative from each group to be a jury member.
2 Then, let the groups imagine a dream festival either national or international. Tell them to write down
this festival by inventing answers to the guided questions on the worksheet.
3 Meanwhile, give the jury members the assessment rubric and make sure that it is clearly understood.
4 After each group has finished, have them submit the sheets of paper without any names or marks on.
5 Ask each jury member to read aloud the festival to the class and then have all the jury members
evaluate each festival based on the assessment rubric.
6 The group with the highest score is announced as the winner.

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