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THEME 6 OPEN YOUR HEART

FUNCTIONS
F1 Expressing degrees of certainty in the past
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11 GRADE F2 Expressing criticism for the events in the past

3 Guess Who?

The aim of this activity is to speculate about the past using modal verbs for deduction. The activity encourages students
to improve especially their speaking skill expressing degrees of certainty in the past. It also helps critical thinking.

Materials and Preparation

Bring two blank pieces of paper for each student and explain the rules of the game.

Procedure

1 Give each student two blank slips of paper.
2 Write three questions on the board, e.g., what they did on their last vacation, their favorite genre of music, the most
recent thing they googled.
3 Have your students just write the answers on the given paper, e.g., ‘‘went to Athens, jazz, climate change.’’ Tell them
they mustn’t write their names on the paper.
4 Tell your students that you are going to collect their papers and redistribute them to different students.
5 Get them to read their cards and guess who must/may/might/could have written it. They have to give the reasons for
their speculations. The students who guess correctly giving the right reasons get 10 points. If a student can’t give the
explanations for her/his speculation, s/he can’t stay in the game.
E.g.
• This must have been written by Dennis because his sister works in Athens.
• Celine must have written it because she’s crazy about Nat King Cole and Norah Jones.
• I think it may have been written by Lara because her project work is about global warming and forest fires.

6 Tell your students they can also speculate based on their handwriting as well as the answers.
7 Play one more time using different questions. It’s always interesting to see how well students know each other. The
students who guess the correct classmate have 10 points after each round.

4 Solve the Mystery

With this past modals of deduction activity, students will be able to express degrees of certainty. They will also be able to
practice four main language skills.

Materials and Preparation

Make enough copies of the worksheet on page 111 for each student.

Procedure

1 Get students to work in groups of four.
2 Give each student a worksheet which contains four situations.
3 Have them read the situations and then start a group conversation in order to speculate the truth behind each
situation.
4 Based on their group discussion, get students to complete the sentences following each situation.
5 When the activity is over, get some feedback from the groups to find the most interesting deductions.
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