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THEME 1 STUDYING ABROAD

FUNCTIONS
9 GRADE F1 Meeting new people and introducing oneself and family members
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F2
Talking about possessions
F3 Asking for and giving directions
7 If False, Correct It!

This activity aims to have students evaluate the accuracy of given directions and identify mistakes in
them by looking at a street map.

Materials and Preparation
Copy and cut up the street maps on page 24 and make sure that each student in the class has one map.

Procedure
STEP 1
Give each student a copy of the map. Tell students that you will give directions to the bookshop; however,
there will be two mistakes. Ask them to say “Stop!” when you give inaccurate directions. When students
say “Stop!”, pause and elicit their answers. When you make sure students understand the instructions,
read the following text and demonstrate. (Mistakes in the directions are the underlined words in the text.)

If you want to go to the bookshop, go straight on and walk past the traffic lights. You’ll see a lab on the right.
Go past that and it’s on the left opposite the lab.
right  left
opposite  next to
STEP 2
1 Tell students that they are going to listen to an audio where three speakers give directions to three
places in the given map. However, there are two mistakes in each speaker’s directions. Students are
supposed to say “Stop!” when the speaker makes a mistake and then correct it. When students say
“Stop!”, you need to pause the audio and elicit their answer.
2 Before playing the audio tell students that the whole class will have a competition with these three
speakers. Write SPEAKERS and CLASS on the board. For every correction students make, add one
point to the CLASS section; for a miscorrection or a mistake that students fail to catch, add one point
to the SPEAKERS section. When the activity is finished, count the points and announce the winner.
3 If you want to play the game once again, you can write similar texts to give directions to different
places on the map and read them to students. This time the game is TEACHER vs. CLASS.

8 Sneakshot!

This activity aims to make students talk about possessions.

Materials and Preparation
Students’ own mobile phones or cameras and a laptop or smart board
Procedure
1 Have students walk around the classroom and take some sneaky photos of the items that are not
so obvious. The items may be a book, a pencil, a hairclip, etc. Encourage students to take the photos
without letting anyone see. Tell them it is a secret task.
2 Ask students to send the photos they have taken to your e-mail address so that you can show them
on the smart board or laptop.
3 Select the photos randomly and tell the shooter’s name. Have him/her ask the question “Whose is
this?”
4 Encourage students to guess who the items belong to saying “It’s my hairclip.”, “It’s Ali’s book.”, “They
are your pencils,” etc. You may let all students guess at once or take turns.
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