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Reading About Other Cultures Continue Activity 1 below
FOR OUR COMPARATIVE CHART

Ludic and literary environment
SOCIAL LANGUAGE PRACTICE: Read brief essays to compare cultural traditions. CULTURAL TOPIC Example: Answer:
Food
TO BE COMPARED:

Remember

2. Explore some plays, monologues and essays. Ask your An essay is a
teacher to recommend you some sources to do it. piece of writing
usually written
from an author's
• Write an ✘ or a ✓ according to the statement in the chart. Look at
personal point of
the example. Play Essay view that analyzes
and evaluates an
It is a short work of nonfiction. ✘ issue or a topic.
Writing an essay
Usually, there are no characters. means expressing
your academic
It illustrates the writer’s experiences.
opinion on a
“It is a literary device for saying almost everything about particular matter.
Possible types of
almost anything".
essays include
descriptive,
It makes an argument for the writer’s opinion.
narrative, compare
It may cite other texts to emphasize the writer’s perspective. and contrast,
persuasive,
argumentative,
among others.

3. Look at the chart below. Read the activities you will complete
in this practice in order to produce a comparative chart.
Remember to tick each activity as soon as you finish it.

Week 1 WARM-UP STAGE

• Select texts based on the table of contents and
Explore brief publishing content.
essays. • Identify textual organization.
• Determine topic, purpose, and addressee.

Week 2 BUILDING STAGE

Read and • Formulate and answer questions.
understand • Identify sentences used to describe cultural traditions.
general meaning, • Distinguish between examples, explanations and
main ideas, and main ideas.
details in essays. • Identify beliefs and values in texts.

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