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The Happiness Graph
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Aim:
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to practise writing about graphs
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Target Audience:
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students
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Relevance to BEC:
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Part 1
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Organisation:
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in pairs
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Materials needed:
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paper and pencil
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- Get students to work together with a partner to produce 'The
Happiness Graph'.
- One of them draws two axes on a sheet of paper, the vertical
axis ranging from 'depressed' to 'ecstatic' and a central horizontal
axis showing the days of the week.
- The student then draws a line graph to express their happiness
on different days of the week.
- Their partner then asks questions - 'Why were you so happy
on Wednesday?'
What was wrong on Friday?' etc and the student answers.
- This exercise is repeated by the other student.
- The graphs are exchanged and students write a short text to
describe the changes shown on the graph.
- Point out the use of the past tense and graph language e.g.
reached a peak, hit a low, levelled off and so on.
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