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THEME 7 WORLD HERITAGE

FUNCTIONS
9 GRADE F1 Talking about past events
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Making inquiries
F2
F3 Asking and answering questions in an interview
1 Acrostic Irregular Verbs Puzzle
This activity aims to revise and practise irregular verbs in their present and past tense forms.

Materials and Preparation
Copy the worksheet on page 149 and make sure that each student in the class has one.

Procedure
1 Give each student a copy of the worksheet and ask them to read and complete the sentences with
the given words. Have them work individually.
2 Allow 10-15 minutes for this and then stop the activity and elicit the answers.
3 Divide students into pairs—one of the pairs is Student A, and the other is Student B. Tell them that
Student As are supposed to fill in the puzzle with the odd-numbered words while Student Bs are
supposed to do it with the even-numbered words. Ask them to use the past simple forms of the
verbs with which they have completed the sentences in ‘Exercise A’ as clues.
4 When students have finished filling in their own parts, have them work in pairs to ask/answer
questions about the missing parts so that they can complete their puzzles and find the hidden
phrase together.
5 Once students have finished, elicit the answers and finally ask for the hidden phrase (CULTURAL
HERITAGE).

2 Past Tense Rush

This activity aims to have students correctly use past simple forms of irregular verbs and make past
simple affirmative or negative statements by using time expressions.

Materials and Preparation
Copy and cut up the action cards and time cards on page 150 and the game board on page 151 for
each pair.
Procedure
1 Divide students into pairs—one of the pairs is Student A, and the other is Student B. Give out one set
of action cards, a set of time cards, and a game board to each pair. Have students shuffle each set
and spread them face down on the table in two separate sets.
2 Inform students about the following rules of the game:
• Students are supposed to pick up an action card and a time card and make a correct sentence.
To do this, they need to make an affirmative or negative past simple sentence by using the
words/phrases on the cards. For example, if a student picks up the cards ‘build’ and ‘four years
ago’, s/he might say, “They built/didn’t build a house by the lake four years ago.”
• If a student makes an incorrect sentence, his/her turn is over. If s/he makes a correct sentence,
s/he puts a tick (Student A) or a cross (Student B) to the first hexagon adjacent to his/her letter (A
or B) that is marked ‘Start’ and his/her turn ends.

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