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Multimedia resources
Throughout the activities, you will find two multimedia resources with different icons:
Continue Activity 2 below
IT
• Gather information about the three cultural habits you selected. You can Opinion Reader's
check your Reader’s Book, page 5 to find information about food around
the world and different types of houses. Book page 5
This icon provides IT There’s a lot of information available online. If you type, "types of families" or
“standards of beauty around the world”, the search engine will display several
suggested websites.
Activity sequence
Activities in practices are numbered and organized in a three-stage sequence that allows the
elaboration of a language product:
Warm-up stage
Warm-up stage: where you
will find a schedule with steps
and activities to develop
a language product.
• Pick three cultural habits you would like to talk about. Look at the example.
For our conversation
Example: The cultural habits we find most interesting
A regular school day
Unusual jobs Eating breakfast 5. Make a diagram with each point of view and support them with reasons and
evidence. Look at the example.
I think food says a lot about where people come from..
Example:
Traditional cuisine is passed down from one generation to the
search
engine (n.):
buscador
Reason
next. It also operates as an expression of cultural identity.
articles from online magazines.
3. Look at the chart below. Read the activities you will complete in this practice in
order to have a conversation about cultural habits in different countries. Remember
Evidence
to tick each activity as soon as you finish it. (facts and examples) Dim sum it's a type of brunch that includes
a variety of steamed buns, dumplings, rice
W ARM-UP STAGE In China, harmony is a vital trait in almost every noodle rolls, congees, noodle soups, sticky
Week 1 aspect of life. This is reflected in Chinese cuisine, coated chicken, and fried veggies.
where almost every flavor (salty, spicy, sweet, and
Negotiate topics • Determine topic. bitter) is used in a balanced way, creating delicious
of conversation • Present points of view. dishes with flavors that go well together.
about cultural • Support points of view with reasons, examples and evidence.
habits. TRACK 3
BUILDING STAGE
Remember
Week 2 A reason explains why a person has a particular opinion. In a persuasive
discussion, the person will usually explain each reason. Just saying, “Food is an
Exchange opening • Start a conversation in a natural way.
expression of cultural identity,” is not convincing. There must be some evidence
• Express and interpret opening statements and opinions.
in order to believe the reason. Evidence is the specific facts and examples that
statements and • Distinguish facts from opinions.
opinions to start a • Exchange opening statements and opinions.
conversation. illustrate the reason. Facts are statements that can be proven true and an
BUILDING STAGE example is an event that shows one specific instance of an occurrence.
Week 3
6. Discuss the best cultural habit to have a conversation about.
Ask and answer • Ask questions based on what others said. This icon gives you the
questions to • Answer questions.
• Modify questions according to others’ reactions.
broaden a • Monitor conversations. • Use the points of view you wrote in Activity 4 and the examples and
conversation. evidence from Activity 5. session 3
Week 4 CLOSURE STAGE-SOCIALIZATION • Listen to the track and use it as an example. TRACK 3 cue to play a CD track
• End the conversation with kind and cordial expressions.
Manage strategies • Detect absence of information. 7. Vote to pick the cultural habit for your conversation.
to maintain • Explain the strategies used in a conversation to others.
and conclude a • Assess the process and product. • Write down the teams and the topic they will discuss in your notebook.
conversation. (your teacher will play it).
Look at the example.
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For our conversation Reasons and evidence
Example:
Eating breakfast around the world
Team 1
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7. Look at the chart below and read the activities you will complete in this
practice in order to make an anthology of logic riddles. Remember to tick
each activity as soon as you finish it.
Week 1 session 3
W ARM-UP STAGE
• Explore logic riddles.
Select and explore
logic riddles. • Ask questions to get clues about the logic riddle.
Week 2 • Apply deduction skills for recreational purposes.
• Propose criteria for a riddle anthology.
Practice 5 What If…? Ludic and literary environment • Propose past events or ideas to create logic riddles.
BUILDING STAGE
Social language practice: Guess and formulate hypotheses about past events.
In this practice you will solve and propose different riddles. • Analyze characteristics of past events, based on facts
and evidence.
riddles to create your own anthology .
Describe logic
• Ask questions to get details about a past event.
Warm-up stage riddle (n.): acertijo depth ripe Glossary on • Describe events. Planning our product. Looking for riddles. Establishing selection criteria
fence (n.): cerca, valla
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dig (n.): excavar
• Include details to specify conditions.
1. Read along while you listen to the following logic riddle. TRACK 33 • Define rules for the game.
Week 3 • Check your own performance and that of others.
BUILDING STAGE
Things I know Please tell me something OK, if that’s what you want. A few years ago, Propose • Assume probable causes that originate from events in the
The Mystery of the Bitten Carrots
hypotheses to
some very strange things happened to my
past, based on available evidence.
uncle that we cannot yet explain.
solve riddles
interesting, a story that
makes me think. Well, my uncle is a farmer and one day he that explain past • Propose alternatives to assumptions and evaluate them Schedule
events.
according to their viability.
What happened decided to plant vegetables on fifteen square Week 4 • Connect information to consolidate assumptions.
meters of his land. He cleaned almost all the
to your uncle?
soil of weeds and planted carrots. However,
session 1 What did your uncle do to he knew that there were rabbits around that Share emotions • Compose the anthology of logic riddles.
CLOSURE STAGE-SOCIALIZATION
could come and eat the carrots.
He installed a wire fence around the garden.
The fence was two meters high and reached
two meters below the ground.
prevent the rabbits from
and reactions in an • Organize an event to present and play with the anthology.
eating the carrots? So, the rabbits could not jump the fence nor interview. • Evaluate the process and the product. There is an extra
Why did he put the fence at dig under it. Rabbits never, never dig more
than a meter and a half underground.
that height and at that depth? Well, some time passed, and the carrots schedule you can
And what were growing very well, they were almost
ripe. But one day, he began to find bitten
happened next? carrots on the ground. My uncle could never photocopy at the
Rabbits don’t fly, they don’t explain how the rabbit had gotten in and out. Studentʼs Book / Practice 5 81
do magic and they never dig
more than a meter and a half What do you
under the ground ... There has think happened? end of your book
to be a logical explanation.
Mmm... Let me think...
on page 181.
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