Revista simpozionului Eficiență și calitate în educație - 19 mai 2017 Eficiență și calitate în educație | Page 59

his piece of information to the rest of the class/group and they decide how and where to use it. When the chart is completed they check their answers. Stage 2 Speaking about the characters: the students add one more statement to the chart using modal verbs, for example. A discussion starts about the neighbours in Klickitat Street. The purpose is to use the given information and also have a personal contribution to the task. My weaker students used the given information to express opinion or facts about the characters while those with a higher level of communicative competence preferred to build up their own sentences and brought in new information about the neighbours. Miss Dudd owns a dog. The woman at No. 12 has two pets; a tortoise and a rabbit. The dog owner drinks beer. Mrs Evans is married. Mr Abraham is a widower; his neighbour is divorced. The married woman reads thrillers. The woman who likes coffee does not own a pet. No. 18 is the only house without a pet. There are five pets in Klickitat Street; a cat, a dog, a canary, a rabbit and a tortoise. The bachelor likes historical novels. Mr Abraham cannot read, he watches TV. The widower and the spinster like beer. Mrs Birt likes to read books by Charles Dickens. The whisky drinker owns a canary. The dog owner living next door to the bachelor is keen on love stories. Mr Charles lives between Miss Dudd and Mrs Birt. The married woman drinks wine. The pet at No. 14 is a dog. Mr Abraham lives at No. 20. The dog owner and the cat owner do not live next to each other. 59