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THEME 4 COMING SOON

FUNCTIONS
F1 Making predictions
12 GRADE F2 Expressing degrees of certainty and uncertainty
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F3 Receiving instructions about cyber games
7 Dialog on Possibility

The aim of this activity is to have students talk about certainty and uncertainty of the situations on
specific topics. The activity also aims to consolidate the expressions related to certainty and uncertainty.

Materials and Preparation
Worksheet on page 89
The teacher photocopies the worksheet for each pair and then hands them out.

Procedure
1 Put students into pairs.
2 Ask them to categorize the expressions below the headings given on the worksheet.
3 After they have completed the task, display the answers on the interactive whiteboard and tell them
to check their answers. As an alternative way, the teacher could read the answers aloud for checking.
4 Afterwards, ask them to pick one of the topics given and create a short dialog about it. Emphasize
that they should ask about future situations of the topics picked and answer them using phrases
of certainty and uncertainty. Remind them to use at least two expressions from each column in the
chart.

E.g.
Student A I wonder whether the environment will be better in the future.
Student B I think it will be better.
Student A How sure are you? Why do you think so?
Student B I’m a hundred percent certain because there are enough precautions taken for the
environmental problems. For example, ...

5 Finally, ask the volunteer pairs to read or act out their dialogs.

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