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THEME 5 INSPIRATIONAL PEOPLE

FUNCTIONS
F1 Asking about and describing people’s appearances and characters
9 GRADE F2 Comparing characteristics and appearances
th
Expressing opinions (Agreeing, disagreeing, etc…)
F3
F4 Talking about current activities
15 Tell the Differences

This activity aims to have students find the differences between visuals and make sentences/describe
pictures using the Present Continuous Tense.

Materials and Preparation
Copy the handout on page 119 for Student As and the handout on page 120 for Student Bs.

Procedure
1 Divide students into pairs—one of the pairs is Student A, and the other is Student B. Give each
student a corresponding handout.
2 Ask students to sit face to face and tell them to keep their handout hidden so that their partner
cannot see it.
3 Tell students that there are twelve pictures in their handouts in which they can see people doing
different things, and some of the pictures are not the same. Inform them that there are six differences,
and they are supposed to ask and answer questions trying to find the differences.
For example:
A: What’s the man doing in Picture 8? OR A: Are the man and woman in Picture 9 looking at photos?
B: He is swimming. B: Yes, they are./No, they aren’t. They are skateboarding.
4 Set and announce a specific time limit and have everyone start at the same time. Go around the
classroom from pair to pair and monitor. Stop the activity when time is up and ask students to
compare their handouts to see if they have been able to find all six differences.

16 Scrambled Sentences

This activity aims to have students complete and match sentence parts so as to form sentences with the
Present Continuous Tense.

Materials and Preparation
Copy and cut up sentences on page 121 and make sure you have enough copies for each pair.
Procedure
1 Have students work in pairs and give each pair a set of long cards and short cards. Ask students to
spread the long cards face up on the desk and shuffle the short ones putting them face down as
pack.
2 Tell students that all the things on the long cards are happening right now and they are supposed
to complete the sentence halves on the long cards using the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
(e.g. Ken and I are working...)
3 Once the students have completed the sentence halves on the long cards, ask them to turn over the
short cards and match them to the long cards so that they can form twenty sentences by making
logical connections between the words.
4 When all the cards have been matched, have pairs read out their sentences to check the correct
answers with class.
5 Tell students that pairs score a point for each correctly completed sentence half and one point for
each correctly matched sentence. The pair who has the most points becomes the winner.

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