Page 4 - @ccess 3 Student´s Book

Dear student,

The book you hold in your hands was thought of for you: a teenager who knows
and uses his or her mother tongue for different purposes, such as talking about
cultural habits in different countries, reading poems, writing instructions to
make a simple experiment, exchanging emotions and reactions to a TV show, or
writing agreements or disagreements to participate in a debate about the arts,
among others.

All these experiences and the knowledge you have about your mother tongue are
also required to communicate in English. Thus, @ccess 3 gives you the chance to
make your own decisions, along with your teacher and classmates, while planning
and making language products, such as a comic strip, a set of instructions, and
an oral testimony, all using English. This way, your opinions and proposals are
considered at all stages of the process. In @ccess 3, you decide on the topic,
purpose and addressee of the proposed language products.

Unlike other books, in @ccess 3, you will find the answers, explanations and
advice to develop the collective and individual activities. These all allow you to use
English to produce the language products in each of the ten practices in this book.

As you become familiar with this book, you will realize that using English to make
language products, with your classmates and teacher, is what allows you to learn
it. Communication in English is established when you ask and answer questions,
when problems arise and get resolved, as well as when proposals, compliments or
criticism are listened to and given.

While writing this book, we were thinking about you and how to support you, so
that English is useful not only in school, but also outside in the world. Our intention is
for you to meet and communicate with other people, maybe even in other countries,
in English. We hope this book is a tool for exploring other ways of seeing, feeling
and living in this world of ours.

We hope that using this book is as rewarding an experience for you as it was for
us to write it.

The authors

Student’s Book 3