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4. Look at the chart below. Read the activities
you will complete in this practice in order
to describe an unexpected situation in a
conversation. Remember to tick each activity as
soon as you finish it.

Week 1 WARM-UP STAGE

Listen to and explore
descriptions of • Identify topic, purpose, and addressee.
unexpected situations • Distinguish attitudes and emotions.
shared in an oral • Understand acoustic features.
exchange.

Week 2 BUILDING STAGE

• Identify ways to describe unexpected situations and
clarify meaning of words.
• Identify main ideas and information that broadens,
Interpret general
exemplifies, or explains them.
meaning, main ideas,
• Formulate questions to understand descriptions.
and details.
• Identify strategies used to rephrase ideas, adjust
volume and speed, and negotiate meaning.
• Enunciation.
Week 3 BUILDING STAGE

• Write sentences to describe unexpected situations.
• Add details to main ideas.
• Change direct speech into indirect speech, and
Describe unexpected
vice versa.
events.
• Adjust speed, rhythm, diction, and intonation.
• Use strategies to influence meaning.
• Use strategies to restore a failed conversation.
• Produce spontaneous descriptions of
unexpected situations.
Week 4 CLOSURE STAGE-SOCIALIZATION

Participate in a • Maintain an oral exchange with the support of non-
conversation to describe verbal language.
unexpected situations. • Assess the process and the product.

• Look for some testimonies of unexpected situations to use throughout this
practice. There are plenty of resources online, or you can use the ones in
Reader's your Reader’s Book, which are situations that happened to Malala when she
Book pages 79-90
was a schoolgirl in Pakistan.

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