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THEME 8 SPORTS

FUNCTIONS
F1 Reporting news
F2 Making interview
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11 GRADE F3 Talking about sports
7 Whisper to Me

With this fun activity students will be able to report news. It also helps them to improve their listening and speaking skills.

Materials and Preparation

Make a copy of the worksheet on page 158 and cut up each statement.

Procedure

1 Arrange students in a circle.
2 Put the shuffled statement cards face down on the table and place them at the center of the circle.
3 Ask a volunteer to start the game by picking up a statement.
4 The student whispers the statement in his/her friend’s ear and s/he whispers it to the next student by using reported
speech.
5 This continues until the last student converts what s/he hears into direct speech and says it out loud.
6 This fun activity goes on in tracking with new sentences.

8 One-Minute Challenge

This activity enables students to talk about various topics related with sports. It also encourages them to improve their
listening and speaking skills.

Materials and Preparation

A stopwatch to monitor 1 minute.
Make a copy of the worksheet on page 159 and cut up the topics.

Procedure

1 Divide your students into two teams as A and B. Ask for any volunteers from both teams to start the game.
2 Remind students that they have 1 minute and they must keep talking continuously without stopping on the subject
they choose for the entire time to complete the challenge.
3 Let the players know that each meaningful sentence they make is 1 point.
4 Tell the student from team A to pick up a conversation topic to start the game.
5 Remind the whole class that they must listen to each player carefully in order to count the sentences s/he makes and
announce the score. Then tell the player to write his/her score on the board. As a next step team B takes it in turns
and the game goes on.
6 The team with the highest score wins the game.
7 To arouse attention, the player can ask some questions to the class about the topic s/he has talked on.

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