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THEME 5 PSYCHOLOGY

FUNCTIONS
F1 Describing mood
F2 Making suggestions to change negative mood
12 GRADE F3 Following and giving instructions
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11 Text Dictation

The aim of this game is to have students follow and give instructions through a collaborative dictation
activity.

Materials and Preparation
Reading sheets on page 127
The teacher photocopies and then cuts out the reading sheets for two groups. The teacher also
determines spots for the two writers of the game and moves the desks to these spots. In addition, it
would be practical to leave enough space for students to run back and forth.

Procedure
1 Put students into two groups.
2 Hand out one of the reading sheets to each group. Explain students that the sentences on the
sheets are in a jumbled order and they are required to put the sentences into correct order to come
up with a coherent reading text.
3 Afterwards, let each group assign two students with the roles as follows: One student is the runner
and the other is the writer. Tell them that the runner of each group is responsible for reading the
texts on the sheet, memorizing them, finally, running to the spots and dictating to the writers.
4 Tell them that this process continues until the text is complete.
5 Remind students that they should try to rewrite the text as similar as possible to the original one,
including the correct spelling and punctuation.
6 The first group to finish with the correct text will be the winner (The quality of the texts will be
evaluated by the teacher).
7 As for the review after the activity, read the original reading texts and ask students to check and
compare their works.

12 It’s Your Turn

The activity aims to have students follow and give instructions through a chain drill. It is expected to
appeal to kinesthetic and auditory learners.

Materials and Preparation
Instructions sheet on page 128

Procedure
1 Tell students that you are going to give them a series of instructions and you want them to follow
these instructions as fast and accurately as they can.
2 Remind students that they should listen to the instructions attentively in order not to miss any of
them. Whenever a student fails to follow the instruction, she/he is dismissed.
3 Start reading the instructions and have students carry on with the task until there is only one student
left (when to finish the game may be up to the teacher).
4 Announce the last student left as the winner.

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