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THEME 9 MY FRIENDS

FUNCTIONS
F1 Describing events, places and people
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11 GRADE F2 Asking for and giving clarification
5 Could You Be More Explicit?

The aim of this activity is to encourage students to ask for and give clarifications. It also helps them to improve their listening
and speaking skills.

Materials and Preparation

Make a copy of the list of the names on page 178 for each group.

Procedure

1 Give students the list of the names that are often about, general knowledge questions e.g. the Nile, the Eiffel Tower
and Stephen Hawking.
2 Divide the class into two teams as A and B. Tell the students that they should choose one of the things from the list
and say something true about that thing, person or place, e.g. “The Nile is in Egypt”.
3 When the player from team A says something about that person, place or thing, the students from the other team
will ask for clarification by saying, “Could you be more explicit?” and the other player of team A should expand the
sentence by adding information but without changing any of the words that his/her friend has said, e.g. “The Nile,
which is a river, is in Egypt.”. Then the players of team B ask the question again, “Could you be more explicit?” and
the next player of team A tries to expand it even more, e.g. “The Nile, which is the longest river in the world, is in
Egypt”.
4 The same procedure continues until one person makes a factual mistake or someone gives up from team A. Then
it is team B’s turn to choose a person or thing from the list to make sentences. The team which completes their turn
without a mistake wins the game.

6 Spin the Wheel

This activity enables students to describe events, places and people. It also helps them practice listening, speaking and
reading skills.

Materials and Preparation

Make enough copies of the worksheet on page 179 for each group of three students.

Procedure

1 Put students into groups of three and give them the worksheet.
2 Describe the task. Students put a pencil in the middle of the wheel on their worksheet. They take turns spinning the
pencil and answering the question the pencil points to.
3 When Student A spins the pencil on the wheel and answers the corresponding question, the other members of the
group (Student B and C) ask further questions to get more information. After answering the question as fully as
possible, Student A asks the same question to his/her partners to get their opinion. Encourage them to have a group
discussion on each question. After the first question is discussed, Student B and then Student C take turns spinning
the pencil and answering the questions.
4 If the pencil points to a question that has already been discussed, students should continue spinning the pencil until
it points to a new question.
5 The game finishes when all the questions have been answered.
6 Get some feedback from the groups.

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