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THEME 2 MY ENVIRONMENT

FUNCTIONS
9 GRADE F1 Talking about locations of things
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Asking about and describing neighbourhood
F2
F3 Making comparisons
3 Around the House

The aim of this activity is to help students to recall the vocabulary connected to asking about and
describing the neighbourhood that they have learned previously. It also aims to give them an
opportunity to be creative with the language and vocabulary.
Materials and Preparation
Photocopy the worksheet on page 40 for each group of four and cut the cards.

Procedure
1 Put the class into an even number of groups with four students and give each group a set of cards.
Tell them that one student in the group will describe the words related to the houses and buildings
in turns, and the group members will guess the word itself. Warn them that they are not allowed to
say any words shown on the card while describing the word in bold.
2 Ask them to shuffle the cards and put them face-down on the desk. Have students take it in turns to
pick up one card without showing it to anyone. The student with the card describes the word in bold
to the other students in the group.
3 The first student to guess the word wins the card. The game continues until all the cards have been
described. At the end of the game, the student who has the most cards is the winner.

4 Adjective Crossword

This activity aims to recall previously learned adjectives and their comparative forms related to
describing their room or a place in the house. It also encourages students to interact and communicate
in a meaningful context for language use.

Materials and Preparation
Photocopy one worksheet on page 41 for each pair of students. Cut into two separate, Student A and
Student B, worksheets for each student.
Procedure
1 Put the class into two groups, A and B. After warning students not to look at the other group’s
worksheet, hand out the ‘Student A worksheet’ to each student in group A and the ‘Student B
worksheet’ to each student in group B.
2 Point out to students that all adjectives in the crossword are related to describing a room or house.
Ask them to work in pairs with a partner from the same group to check if they know the meanings of
all the words on their worksheet and prepare a few clues for each of their words.
3 Have students work with a partner from the other group to complete the puzzle, asking and giving
clues about the missing words in turns. Warn students not to use the words themselves, but they
can give the first letter of the word when their partners have challenges with remembering it.
4 When students have finished the activity, let them check each other’s completed crosswords and
their spelling with their partners. Have them make meaningful sentences with the comparative form
of the adjectives on the worksheet, and let them share these sentences with the class.

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