Page 13 - English 10 | Games and Activities-8

THEME 8 DIGITAL ERA

FUNCTIONS
F1 Stating personal opinions in everyday conversations
F2 Stating preferences
10 GRADE F3 Stating causes and effects
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F4 Giving an extended description and detailed information about people/places/events

13 Let’s Describe

The activity aims to have students give extended descriptions and detailed information about people,
places, and events. Through this activity, it is expected to enhance students’ speaking and listening
skills in particular.

Materials and Preparation
Worksheet on page 213
As a preparation, the teacher photocopies the worksheet for each group.

Procedure
1 Put students into groups of four or five, and hand out the worksheet to each group.
2 Explain that the groups are going to make as many sentences as they can related to the words on
the worksheet.
3 Remind students that they have only 1 minute for each word and within the time limit, they are
going to write an extended description and detailed information for the word by making use of the
structures ‘‘It’s a person who…, It’s a place where…, It’s an event which…, It’s a thing which…’’
4 After each word description, have the groups read aloud and check the answers together. At the
end of the activity, the group with the most accurate sentences will be the winner.

14 Word Bridge

This game aims to have students practice giving extended descriptions about people, places, things, and
events. Moreover, it is expected to help students with their inference skills.

Materials and Preparation
Descriptions sheet on page 214
Game sheet on page 215
As a preparation, the teacher photocopies and cuts out the game sheet and the descriptions sheet as
many as the number of students.

Procedure
1 Put students into pairs and assign them as Student A and Student B.
2 Hand out the description sheets and game sheets to Student As and Bs. Tell them not to show their
sheets to their partners.
3 Explain the rules of the game to the class. Tell them that the mission of each student is to make a
word bridge by answering the questions correctly. Inform students that Student As will read out the
descriptions for the box number Student Bs have chosen, and Student Bs will guess the word. Ask
students to put a tick into the box for the correct guess and a cross for the incorrect one. Inform them
that if they cannot guess the correct word, they will choose another number to make the bridge. Tell
them to exchange their roles after each question.
4 The student to make the word bridge faster will be the winner.

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