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Closure stage-socialization

28. Check, with your partner, if your register is appropriate for the
addressee you established in Activity 4.

• Change the words and expressions if necessary. Listen to the
example on Track 45. TRACK 45 session 11

For our report

Example:
Changing register
Cortés managed to escape from
Cortés ran away from Tenochtitlán Tenochtitlán with some of his men.
with some of his men. He put together He gathered a large force of natives

a large force of natives to fight the to fight the Aztecs. He returned to
Aztecs. He came back to Tenochtitlán Tenochtitlán and put it under siege.
and put it under siege. Register. Final version of the report

29. Write the final version of your historical report, considering
the changes made in previous activities. Look at the example.

Remember
For our report Usually two-word

verbs (e.g. ran
Example: away, put together,
Final version came back) have
a lower register
Aztec Empire. Spanish Conquest verbs (e.g.
than one-word

escape, gathered,
Arrival of Hernan Cortés returned).
Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés landed with his men on the Mexican coast in April 1519.
Moctezuma Xocoyotzin sent Cortés gifts to welcome them. Although he did not trust
Cortés, he was also worried that Cortés was the god Quetzalcoatl. According to myth,
Quetzalcoatl would come to Earth as a man and Cortés, coincidentally, had arrived
on Quetzalcoatl's birthday.
Cortés came with 500 men, 16 horses, and cannons. He began to get to know the natives.
He brought along an indigenous woman named Doña Marina who worked as his interpreter.
Cortés allied with some of the local nations such as the Totonac and the Tlaxcalans.

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