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Speaking well makes the world go´round Continue Activity 2 below
a) What do you know about other languages besides your mother tongue?
b) Do you speak any languages besides your mother tongue and English?

c) How many languages do you think are spoken in the world?
d) Why do you think it is important to speak other languages?
3. Look at the chart below. Read the activities you will do in this practice in
order to prepare and give an oral presentation about linguistic diversity.
Remember to tick each activity as soon as you finish it.

Week 1 WARM UP STAGE

• Activate previous knowledge and choose topics or
issues related to linguistic diversity.
Choose
• Ask questions to guide the gathering of information.
information about
linguistic diversity.
• Establish criteria to choose written sources.
• Reflect upon the function of textual components .

Week 2 BUILDING STAGE

• Define reading purposes.
Read information
• Identify common words to anticipate what texts
and compose
are about.
notes.
• Compose notes to answer questions.
Week 3 BUILDING STAGE

• Define the order for presenting questions and their
answers.

• Compose a summary in note form, based on a
previously defined order.
Rehearse oral
presentation. • Establish graphic resources to support
a presentation.
• Use the summary in note form to rehearse an
oral presentation.

Week 4 CLOSURE STAGE SOCIALIZATION

• Link graphic resources, notes and speech.

Give an oral • Invite audience to ask questions or make comments.
presentation
• Look for confirmation about what has been
about linguistic
expressed.
diversity.
• Assess process and product.

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