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Mysteries:
Imagine that the following situations happened to one of your classmates. Explain the mysteries with sentences that start with maybe, perhaps, or probably.
Place students in small groups and asked them to discuss a possible scenario that explains the statement/s given to them. Ask them to report back to the class.
- Someone sent him/her a present, but there was no card.
- The phone rang, but no one was there.
- People were laughing at him/her all day yesterday and he/she didn’t know why.
- A group of people suddenly surrounded him/her and his/her friend and began jumping up and down and cheering wildly.
- The TV turned off even though he/she didn’t touch it.
- Last summer, he/she and his/her friends were camping in the mountains. Suddenly, he/she saw a bright flash of light in the sky
- There was a strange buzzing and a weird humming in his/her room last night.
- He/she was walking in the Queen Street Mall last Saturday when suddenly there was a strange sickly odour.
- A famous movie star mentions his/her name in an interview.
- An expensive car was following him/her all day yesterday.