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THEME 8 ALTERNATIVE ENERGY

FUNCTIONS
F1 Describing problems
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12 GRADE F2 Making complaints
F3 Offering solutions
11 Stop Complaining!

This activity enables students to practice making complaints in various situations. It also helps them improve all four skills.

Materials and Preparation

1 Write the exercise below on the board and tell students to match the parents’ expressions with the teenagers’ complaints.

My parents… Parents’ expressions
1 don’t respect my privacy. ( ) a Your room is a mess!
2 complain about my homework performance. ( ) b Honey, don’t you have homework to do?
3 don’t listen to my opinions. ( ) c You should be more careful about your manners.
4 criticize my appearance. ( ) d Are you really wearing that old t-shirt for school?
5 always tell me what to do. ( ) e Can I sit with you when your friend comes?
6 complain about chores. ( ) f I’m so busy right now, can we talk about this later?

2 Print enough worksheets from page 183 for each pair of students.

Procedure

1 Have students work in pairs and give them a set of worksheets.
2 Get them to answer the questions on the worksheet and discuss the answers in pairs.
3 Tell them to write more complaints about their lives in general. Let them share their complaints with their classmates.

12 Tell Me What I Should Do!

This activity enables students to offer solutions to a variety of problems. With the help of this activity, students strengthen their
listening and speaking skills to solve problems, speculate and share ideas. The activity also enhances their ability to understand
and makes them better communicators.

Materials and Preparation

Make a copy of the worksheet on page 184. Cut up the problem cards neatly and put them face down on your table.

Procedure

1 Tell students they are going to try to give the best advice they can for a variety of problems.
2 Get one student to pick up a card. S/he reads out the problem on the card to the class and say, ‘‘Tell me what I should do!’’
3 The other students listen and give some advice in turn.
4 The reader listens and awards the card to the person who has given the best advice.
5 The student with the most cards at the end of the game wins. When everyone has finished, have students report
back to the class on the best/worst/funniest/weirdest piece of advice they have received for each problem.

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