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THEME 10 VALUES AND NORMS

FUNCTIONS
F1 Expressing opinions
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11 GRADE F2 Exchanging ideas
F3 Making comments
6 Four Corners of the Classroom

This activity encourages students to exchange their ideas. It also improves their listening and speaking skills.

Materials and Preparation

Write agree, somewhat agree, disagree and somewhat disagree on four slips of paper and hang them on the corners of
the classroom.

Procedure

1 Divide the class into four corners.
2 Make a statement like, “Footballers deserve to be paid huge sums of money for what they do.”
3 The students move to the corner that best depicts how they feel about the statement.
4 The students in each corner have a few minutes to discuss why they feel this way, and then their group presents their
idea.
5 To make the task clearer, useful language can be written on the board.
Giving an opinion: In my opinion.../ If you ask me.../ I think.../ I believe.../ I personally feel that...
Agreeing: So do I./ Me Neither./ Me too./ I totally agree./ Absolutely./ Exactly./ Yes, I agree.
Disagreeing: I don’t agree./ I totally disagree because.../ I don’t think so./ I’m not sure about that.
Partial agreement: I see your point but.../ that’s true but.../ I agree to some extent but...
Suggested Statement Examples:
• Personality is more important than beauty.
• People who live in apartments shouldn’t own pets.
• People who get plastic surgery usually look worse later in their life.
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• Table manners and etiquette have become less important in the 21 century.
• We are not alone in the universe.

7 Exchange Your Ideas

This activity enables students to exchange and challenge their ideas. It also enables students to improve their listening,
speaking and writing skills.

Materials and Preparation

Make sure you have Internet access in the class.

Procedure

1 Tell students that they are going to watch and listen to a dialog twice. If needed, play it once more. Remind them to
take some small notes.
2 Divide students into pairs.
3 Ask them to decide on a topic and prepare a dialog about exchanging ideas.
4 The pairs demonstrate their dialogs.
5 The pair who gets the biggest applause becomes the winner.

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