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    This document provides instructions for an activity to practice using past modals to talk about possibilities in the past. The activity involves students investigating clues at a fictional crime scene to reconstruct the events that may have led to a character's death. It offers two variants: in the first, the setting and character are predefined and students analyze clues the teacher provides. In the second variant, students collaboratively generate the setting, character, and random objects found at the scene before deducing their significance using past modals. The goal is to engage students in creative storytelling using the target grammar.

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    Objective: Students Will Be Able To Talk About Possibilities in The Past. Target Grammar: Past Modals Variant A

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    BEYKENT UNIVERSITY

    SCHOOL OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES


    2022-2023 ACADEMIC YEAR
    SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL - STEP 4
    Week V- Speaking Past Modals

    Objective: Students will be able to talk about possibilities in the past.

    Target grammar: Past Modals

    Variant A
    This activity is usually lots of fun and enables you to engage the whole group into the creation
    process. Here is what you need:
     a setting (a living room, a classroom, an office etc. confined spaces usually work best)

     a character (who sadly gets murdered in the first scene)

     a set of clues (written words of pictures) that might be either completely random or
    somehow connected.
    The aim of the game is to recreate the events leading to the main character’s death. Analysing
    clues that gradually appear during the investigation, students invent what must / might / can’t
    have happened at the crime scene before they arrived.
    You may find the presentation in Teacher’s Area to share with the students on smart board.
    Clue #1: You look around the office, terrified. Suddenly, you notice a cigarette butt on the
    floor!
    What might / must have happened? What is your conclusion? 
    Anna might have been a smoker.  / The killer might have been a smoker. / The killer must have
    smoked after killing Anna.
    Deducing who the killer was is not really the objective here but make the students invent very
    convincing storylines.

    Variant B
    If you like improvising and work with like-minded students, you might make them
    responsible for the story:
    without informing them where the game is going (don’t mention the murder yet) ask your
    students to come up with:
     a place

     a person

     10 random objects
    Then, explain that the person has been found dead in the place and 10 random objects have
    been spotted at the crime scene. Ask your students to deduce what each object had to do with
    the crime using past modals. You might work together or divide your students into
    pairs/groups. Make sure to provide some relevant examples of the target language.
     

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