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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
2 Be Positive

The activity aims to have students make positive predictions against negative ones. In addition to helping
them develop a better understanding of predictions, the activity is expected to help students improve
the skill of giving evidence in everyday discussions.

Materials and Preparation
The worksheet on page 84
The teacher photocopies the worksheet as many as the number of groups.

Procedure
1 Put students into groups of four or five.
2 Hand out the worksheets.
3 Inform students that they will see negative predictions on the worksheet. Ask them to imagine that
these are the sentences of a close friend and they will need to come up with positive predictions and
give evidence to change her/his mind. Tell them that they are free to choose the predictions they want
to work on. A prediction and its evidence against the given prediction “I think people will have less
communication in the future.” could be “No, people are going to have more communication because
technology introduces new opportunities and devices for online and face-to-face communication
every day.”
4 After introducing the activity as mentioned above, give students time to study the predictions on the
worksheet and discuss to write their predictions and evidences. As to finding evidences, allow them
to look up in reference books and textbooks as well as use the EBA Platform. Alternatively, they can
walk around asking questions to each other about evidences. Emphasize the importance of being
positive while making predictions.
5 When the time is up, have the groups share their predictions and discuss them.

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