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THEME 7 NEWS STORIES

FUNCTIONS
F1 Narrating a past event/experience
F2 Talking about sequential actions
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12 GRADE
6 The Mystery of Jane

This activity enables students to hear a dialog and talk about sequential actions. With this activity, students will be able to
improve their listening, reading and writing skills.

Materials and Preparation

Make copies of the worksheet on page 165 for each group of four or five students and make sure you have access to
the Internet. Just scan the QR code.

Procedure

1 Arrange students into teams of four or five players.
2 Have each group choose a captain to act as a spokesperson.
3 Tell the students that they are going to hear a dialog twice to put the events in the correct order.
4 Deliver the handouts to the students when the listening activity is completed. Remind them that they are going to
write a number (1-5) to put the events of the story in order.
5 Explain to students that they are going to write a paragraph with the sentences that they have put in order. Remind them
that while writing their short paragraph they have to use at least two words, such as after, next, then, suddenly, finally,
first. Remind them that they have to use them correctly to get the total score.
6 When the groups have completed the task, ask them to swap their papers and check their answers. Have the groups
score the papers with five points for the correct sequence and five points for the paragraph they have written.
7 The group or the groups with the highest score win/wins the game.
8 As the last step, have the spokesperson of each group read their paragraph.

7 Five Years Ago...

This activity aims at narrating a past event. It also encourages students to improve their listening, speaking and reading
skills.

Materials and Preparation

Cut the story along the dotted lines into 15 sentence strips on page 166. Divide the class into groups of three. Distribute
the five sentence strips to each group randomly. Write the first sentence of the story on the board:

“This happened about five years ago.”

Procedure

1 Tell each group to put the story into the correct order.
2 Each group will try to guess the next sentence from the strips they have.
3 As long as the groups guess correctly, write the sentences in the correct order on the board.
4 The group that guesses the most sentences in the story correctly wins the game.
5 Let the winning group narrate the story to the classroom.

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