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THEME 7 FACTS ABOUT TURKEY

FUNCTIONS
F1 Talking about landmarks and monuments
F2 Describing cities and historic sites
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11 GRADE F3 Asking for and giving more detailed information
8 Tell Me more

This activity aims to encourage students to talk about famous landmarks and monuments in Turkey and improve their
listening and speaking skills.

Materials and Preparation

Divide the students into pairs. Cut up the photocopiable materials on pages 135-136-137 and deliver each pair a
landmark/monument and a question list.

Procedure

1 A student in each pair will have the name of the landmark/monument.
2 The other student will have the question list. He/she will ask the questions to his/her classmate.
3 The student who has the name of the landmark/monument will answer the questions and give some extra tips about
the place.
4 If the other student finds out the landmark/monument he/she wins.
5 Afterwards the game can be played again by exchanging the landmark/monument names between pairs.

9 Here is...

This activity aims to encourage students to describe cities and historic sites in Turkey and improve their listening, speaking
and reading skills.

Materials and Preparation

Divide the students into four groups. Tell each group to choose a spokesperson. Cut up the photocopiable material on
page 138 and deliver each spokesperson one piece that has information about a city or a historic site. Draw blanks for
each letter of the name of the place the spokesperson is going to present on the board.
E.g.
___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ (for EPHESUS)
Procedure

1 Each group chooses one student from among them as a spokesperson.
2 The spokesperson reads the information about the place written on the paper to his/her friends.
3 Other students in the group try to guess the place, but the other groups remain silent.
4 If there is no correct answer after reading the information, the spokesperson will read the information again.
5 If the group members guess the place correctly, they will then try to guess the name of this place letter by letter.
6 Whenever the group members guess a letter that is in the word, the spokesperson fills it into the blank where it
occurs.
7 Whenever the group members guess a letter that is not in the word, they get a strike that brings them closer to losing.
To show this, the spokesperson draws a simple stick figure of a man being hung, adding a new part to the drawing
with every wrong answer. The person is drawn in six parts (for six wrong letter guesses) in the order: head, body, left
leg, right leg, left arm, right arm.
8 After the challenge of four groups, the group with the least wrong guesses wins.
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