1, You don’t need ‘participants who take part in’. It’s repetition. I suspect you mean this:
The participants in the lesson are students in class 9A.
The students who take part in the lesson are from class 9A.
Based on the content of two sentences, the teacher asks the students to guess the content of the lesson.
The teacher asks the students if they remember the usage of this tense.
I understand what you mean. I meant that you will hear ‘there is’ in certain contexts, even though it may appear that because there are three items you should use ‘there are’.
In the room there are three items: a washing machine, a dryer and an electric stove.
In the room there is a washing machine, a dryer and an electric stove.