Teacher : Hilal ZOUINE

Function: Responding to Good and Bad News

Journalist: More than 11 000 people were injured and about 50 000 Palestinians were imprisoned

Father: My goodness! Thats terrible news.

Brahim: I got 19 in the English test. I must be
genius.
Sam: I just past my driving test successfully.
Ahmed: Congratulations! You made it. What about
biology?
Jane: Thats great news! Lets celebrate!
Brahim: Unfortunately. I got 9.

Ahmed: Poor you! You need to care about all the

school

subjects.
John: My grandmother was taken to the hospital All of them are important.
again.

Friend: I am sorry to hear that. Lets pray she gets better soon.

Son: Did you hear that? A new civil war has broken in central Africa.

Father: Oh dear! Thats bad news. I hope it wont last for long.

Son: But, the UN will send soldiers to establish order there.

Father: Superb! They will surely calm down things there

A) Read the dialogues and fill in the chart accordingly.

Responding to good news Responding to bad news

- -
- -
- -
- -
- -
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-I with
B) Fill in the chart am glad to hear that.
expressions from the list.
-Sorry to hear such terrible news

-Im awfully sorry to hear that!

-That sounds exciting!

-hard luck!

-Thats awesome! You deserve it.

-Terrific!

-how sad!

-Thats fantastic

- I cant believe it!

Teacher : Hilal ZOUINE

C) Respond to the following situations:

1) You: Father, I passed my baccalaureate exam with flying colours!
Father: ..
2) Your teacher: One of your classmates had a terrible accident.
You: .
3) Your cousin: I am going to get married next week!
You:
D) Complete the exchanges with expressions from the chart.
a)
Rachid: We will establish a clean-air association in BoumalneDades city. Would
you like to join us?
Hind: . I wouldnt miss such an initiative.
b)
Fatima: Have you watched the evening news on TV? The great Amazigh singer
Mohamed Rouicha
died in his homeland?
Rachid: May Allah have mercy on him and
to Allah
we belong and to him we shall return.
c)
Soukaina: Did you hear the lasts news? They will build a cinema room in
BoumalneDades city.
Ahmed: ..
E) Role play
Work with your partner and write a short dialogue in which one of you says a
piece of news (either good or bad) and the other student responds.