Namangan davlat universiteti ingliz filologiyasi fakulteti amaliy ingliz tili kafedrasi

Activity 3 Jigsaw reading
Objective: to raise participants’ awareness of some principles of a language awareness approach.
Time: 25 min
Materials: 4 copies of handout 2, 20 copies of handout 3
►Procedure:
- ☺☺☺ (1 min) Participants remain in the same groups. Distribute to participants handout 2(one set per group).
- ☺☺☺ (3 min) Tell them to put these sentences in the correct order and notice the language elements which enabled them to do that. Ask them to report their results to the whole group.
Key: 1b, 2a, 3c.
Possible answers: the use of articles (‘An American’, ‘the drug’), the use of tenses (‘has been jailed’, ‘had faced’, ‘admitted’, ‘was in a taxi’ ‘was stopped’) and referencing (‘An American’, Jason Taylor’, ‘Taylor’).
- ☺☺☺ (5 min) Ask participants to focus on the use of tenses and put all the verbs and verb forms in the text into chronological order. Give each participant handout 3 with the whole text.
Suggested answers:
1. living in Singapore (started before the event)
2. was in a taxi (got in a taxi before he was stopped)
3. was stopped by the police
4. being caught with 0.71 g of cocaine
5. admitted cocaine possession
6. had faced a jail term
7. has been jailed
- ☺(5 min) Ask participants to comment on how particular tense forms helped them to reconstruct the chronological order of the events. Ask them why a particular tense formwas used in each case and what precise meaning it conveyed. Draw their attention to the use of past perfect and present perfect. Ask the following question:
~ Why is ‘has been jailed’ (present perfect) used in the first sentence?
~ Why is ‘had faced’ (past perfect) used in the text after 5 other verb forms?
~ What important event has been missed out in the text? How do you know?