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THEME 8 ALTERNATIVE ENERGY

FUNCTIONS
F1 Describing problems
F2 Making complaints
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12 GRADE F3 Offering solutions
7 What’s the Problem?

This activity encourages students to describe problems. It also improves their listening and speaking skills.

Materials and Preparation

Tell the rules of the game.

Procedure

1 Divide the class into groups of four or five.
2 Tell the groups that you need a volunteer to come to the front of the class to start the game.
3 Have the student stand in front of the class with his/her back to the board.
4 Tell the student that you are going to write an environmental problem on the board and ask his/her group members
to give some advice.
5 After getting the advice, he/she tries to guess what the problem is.
6 If the player guesses right, the group gets 1 point.
7 The game continues with the other groups.
8 The group with the highest score wins the game.
Example:
The problem: The extinction of animals
Student 1: We should stop hunting.
Student 2: We shouldn’t kill them for valuable parts of their bodies.
Student 3: We should put an end to habitat destruction.
Student 4: Governments should take some measures to protect wildlife.
The player: It is the extinction of animals, right?
All the students: Correct!
Problems:
• Deforestation
• Climate Change
• Air Pollution
• Water Pollution
• Household Waste

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