MYSTERY HEADLINES:
In pairs / groups, students
choose a predetermined
mystery
headline and develop the story to tell to news reporters. Once they have decided on their story,
change partners and take turns being reporters and mystery explainers. Example headlines might
include:
•
The talking bus stop
•
Ten thousand pairs of jeans go missing in Russian town
•
Lions and zebras become good friends in Kenya
•
It’s raining pens and pencils in Chile
•
The pregnant Mickey Mouse
•
The remote control baby
•
Marriage proposals increase 300% in Brazilian city
•
The world’s computers’ space bars suddenly break
EXPONENTS TO MOVE FROM ARTICLE TO CONVERSATION:
Providing suitable
exponents can enable learners to more confidently talk about a text they have in front of them. It
is quite natural for anyone armed with a newspaper, magazine or book to want to tell a nearby
companion about something they have read. This is a skill learners
transfer automatically from
their L1s. Students use these exponents to introduce phrases from the article
According to this __________
(E.g. “According to this, the price of oil has hit $1,000 a barrel. What do you think about that?”)
It says here __________
This article says __________
You’ll never believe this __________
I can’t believe what I’ve just read __________
Guess what?
THE ANIMALS’ VIEWPOINT:
Students answer the questions from the point of view
of
animals. After the discussion, students talk about how they answered differently as animals than
how they would have answered as themselves.
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