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THEME 9 MY FRIENDS

FUNCTIONS
F1 Describing events, places and people
11 GRADE F2 Asking for and giving clarification
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2 One More Clue, Please!

This guessing game enables students to ask for and give clarification using defining relative clauses with who, that, which
and where. It is a good activity to develop students’ ability to speak fluently and interactively. It also helps students improve
their analytical and critical thinking skills.

Materials and Preparation

Make one copy of the cards on page 176 for each group of three or four and cut them up as indicated.

Procedure

1 Write ‘‘a composer’’ on the board to demonstrate the activity. Tell students that you are going to define the composer
without giving the name and they have to guess who s/he is. Give a definition that includes a defining relative clause.
E.g.
This is a composer who is one of the greatest pianists of all time.
Encourage students to guess the composer. (The answer is Mozart, but students’ answers could vary such as
Mozart, Beethoven.)
2 If they can’t guess the answer after the first definition, they say ‘‘One more clue, please!’’. Give them another definition.
E.g.
This is a composer who wrote his first symphony when he was eight.
3 Ask students if they still need a further clue. If they say ‘‘One more clue, please!’’, give the third and the last definition.
You can write the definitions on the board so that they can see the relative clauses and relative pronouns.
E.g.
This is a composer whose most famous opera is the ‘‘Marriage of Figaro’’.
If they don’t guess after the third definition, tell them you win. They can’t ask for a further clue.
4 Have the class guess a country (possible clue: a country where people are passionate about football) and an object
(possible clue: something you take on a camping trip) before it is their turn to play the game.
5 Divide the class into groups of three or four. Tell them that they are going to play the game.
6 Give each group a set of cards. Tell them to shuffle the cards and place them face down in a pile on the desk.
7 Players take it in turns to turn up a card and define that person, place or object to the group using a defining relative
clause without giving his/her/its name. Remind them that they can give up to three definitions.
8 The player who guesses correctly keeps the card. If no one in the group guesses correctly, the player giving the
definition puts the card in the discard pile. The player with the most cards at the end of the game is the winner.

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