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THEME 8 SPORTS

FUNCTIONS
F1 Reporting news
11 GRADE F2 Making interview
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F3 Talking about sports
1 Ready to Hear from Me?

This activity enables students to report news. It also encourages students to improve their four essential skills. It is a good
activity to spice up your lessons while practicing Reported Speech.

Materials and Preparation

Choose six volunteers who are good at memorization. Print out the news cards on page 153 and cut them out neatly. Get
the other students to work in groups of three or four. Make copies of the worksheet on page 154 for each group. Have the
groups choose a spokesperson.

Procedure

1 Ask students if they are ready to hear some news about famous sportspeople to arouse curiosity.
2 Give each of six volunteers (news freaks) a sentence card that contains some interesting news about sportspeople
and hand out the worksheet for each group.
3 The news freaks memorize the sentence on their card and then walk around the classmates in groups saying their
news. Tell them they have to speak at a normal pace. Students have to try to remember what the news freaks said.
4 Students use an expression for showing interest or surprise each time they hear a sentence, e.g., ‘Wow!’, ‘Oh,
really?’, ‘Great!’, etc.
5 Tell students they have to write down the name of the person who told them the news and take some notes. It’s better
if they can write the whole sentence they’ve heard. News freaks can repeat their sentences just one more time at a
faster pace.
6 When the news freaks get back to their seats, tell the groups they have to report the news they heard into the
reported news column on their worksheet.
E.g.
Name of the News Freak: Dilara
News: Mesut Özil said his goodbyes to his Arsenal teammates after seven and a half-year stay in north London.
Reported News: Dilara said that Mesut Özil had said his goodbyes to his Arsenal teammates after seven and a half-year
stay in north London.
7 The spokesperson of each group will read the reported news. The group with the most correct sentences is the
winner.

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