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THEME 9 MODERN HEROES AND HEROINES

FUNCTIONS
F1 Talking about imaginary situations
10 GRADE F2 Expressing wishes
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F3 Guessing meaning from the context
12 Guess and Define

The activity aims to have students guess the meaning from the context using the clues given.

Materials and Preparation
Activity sheet on page 242
As a preparation, the teacher photocopies the activity sheet as many as the number of groups.

Procedure
1 Put students into groups of four or five, depending on the size of the class.
2 Give each group a copy of the activity sheet, the content on which there are statements with the
unknown words.
3 Explain the groups that they are going to read the statements, discuss them in the groups and try
to guess the meanings of the unknown words which are written in bold. Then, ask the groups to
write their guesses about the meanings of the unknown words.
4 Tell students that they will get 1 point for each correct guess.
5 Give students 15 to 20 minutes for the task. Monitor and guide them while they are carrying out
the task.
6 After they’ve finished, let the groups share their guesses with the class.
7 Finally, announce the group(s) with the most points as the winner(s). Discuss students’ definitions
in terms of similarities and differences.

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