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Date Posted: 15:04:13 07/30/03 Wed
Author: Jean Rezendes
Subject: Task 13

Students’ level: Intermediate

Language Focus: Speaking, Listening, Reading and Writing

Topic: Mystery Solutions

Objectives: Students will engage in an activity that will promote high levels of interaction. Following hints and clues a group of students will try to solve some riddles to uncover a mystery. It is a large activity that evolves all the students in a kind of competition.

Evaluation: The success of the activity will be evaluated according with the satisfaction of the students. There is not a matter of winners and losers, but a matter of see how the students react to the activity. If it is performed well, all the students will enjoy and develop competences to improvise and solve problems.

Materials:
A mystery novel
K-7 tapes or recordable CDs
Recorder
Paper for notes

Development:

The class will be divided into two groups: a group of development and a group of resolution. The first group must be larger, and the second group must have only three to five students.

The development group will read a mystery novel, such as a Sherlock Holmes’ novel, and prepare to performance the plot of the novel. They will develop materials that are similar to the material of the novel and prepare to act like the characters of the novel. All of this to lead the resolution group through the plot of the novel.

The development team could be sub divided according to the tasks to be developed. For instance, some students will develop recordings to emulate key-passages of the novel. Some students will acts like characters of the novel, to be interrogated by the resolution group.

In this way the students will construct an environment where they will need to communicate with each other in order to achieve the final objective, which is to solve the riddle. The teacher will be the mentor of the tasks, guiding students as o director of a movie.

Following the indication of Littlewood, this activity can reach more than one communicative activity. It uses the Discovering missing information feature, the Discovering secrets and the Pooling information to solve a problem.

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