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19. Choose a partner to have a dialogue with about your forecasts and then
                            compose your first draft.

                            •  Use the questions and answers as a memory aid.                                        session 8
                            •  Establish turns for the conversation.
                            •  Remember to use greetings and farewell expressions. Look at the example.

                                        Interlocutor 1                             Interlocutor 2
                            _  Hi, Vale.                              _  Hi, Gaby.
                                                                      _  By then, technological advances will
                                                                      bring us new devices to explore our
                                                                      universe. New discoveries will probably be
                                                                      made by Mexicans. Also we will be able to
                                                                      visit other countries. We will surely have
                            _  What new developments will be          faster, more efficient and environmentally
                            achieved in the next 25 years?            friendly transportation to go there in ten      Composing drafts
                                                                      years. We will still be living in this town and
                                                                      our houses will still be the same. However,
                                                                      the sports park they’re building right now
                                                                      will be finished shortly, so in 25 years we
                                                                      will be going there at least once a week
                                                                      to do some exercise.
                                                                      _  We will celebrate the end of secondary

                            _  Have you ever thought about how our    school with our families, we shall go to
                            life will be after secondary school?      our chosen high school in three years’
                                                                      time. Once we finish, we’ll go to college to
                                                                      study science.
                            _  So it will depend on us to decide what   _

                            we want to do.                              Quite right, Vale.
                            _  Well, it was nice seeing you, but I should

                            get going. I should run some errands      _  Yeah, we’ll talk some more later. See ya.
                            before going home.


                            Now, to compose your first draft:                                  errand (n.):
                                                                                               mandado
                            •  Decide how to incorporate the answers you gave in the
                               previous activity to the beginning, body and closure of your forecasts.
                            •  Remember that you may follow a different order from
                               the one you used to write your questions.



                                      Example:                                                   Remember
                                               _
                                      Beginning  We will celebrate the end of
                                      secondary school with our families, we shall             text is going from
                                                                                               A way to write a
                                      go to our chosen high school in three years’             general to specific
                                      time. Once we finish, we’ll go to                       information.
                                      college to study science.



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