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CHECKPOINT

17. Tell your story and pay attention to how others react to it.

• Provide your partner with feedback and adjust the testimony to be sure everything
is understood.
Remember

There are two types of details you can include in an oral testimony.
Action details indicate what happened and what people commented.
For example, “It was October and I was in primary school when the
earthquake happened.” Sensory details describe what you saw, heard,
tasted, felt and smelled. For example, “The aftershocks kept coming all
afternoon, so we remained very scared.”

18. Decide the order of your oral testimony and organize the information in a
flowchart.
Sequence of enunciation For our oral testimony aftershocks
• Use the main ideas and the questions from Activities 11, 12 and 13 and include
some details. Look at the example.

landslides
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Glossary on
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One day, our desks
• It was October.
started to tremble
and shake.
• All the boys and girls yelled, "Earthquake!"
We ran outside and • I was in primary school.
• That's what we were taught to do.
gathered around • All the buildings around us seemed to be shaking and the
session 7 were all sent home. • Most of us were crying and our teachers were praying.
our teachers.
rumbling didn’t stop.

• What did you do afterwards?
Afterwards, we
• Our mother was relieved to see us and hugged us.
• Were you scared?
• The aftershocks kept coming all afternoon, so we
remained very scared.

It took a while for • Entire villages had been turned to dust.
us to realize how • Landslides blocked access to the worst-affected parts.
bad it was. • All the phones and power lines were down.

We ran outside and • Did you do something to help the refugees?
gathered around • My father went to everybody he knew, asking for
our teachers. donations of food, clothing and money.
• I helped my mother collect blankets.

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