Page 14 - @ccess 1 Teacher´s Book
P. 14

•  Suggestions to develop each activity in         4.  Reader’s Book. This material is an
                 the three stages involved in producing             anthology that provides students with a
                 a language product (warm-up, building,             number of different texts to acquaint them
                 closure). Such suggestions are comprised of        with the English language. It was created
                 attitudes, values, and behaviors expected          with the following aims:
                 while interacting; basic skills and linguistic   •  To offer texts in English so that members of
                 aspects involved in communication and              the school community have materials in this
                 strategies for learning to learn.                  language.
              •  Assessment instruments with the aim of          •  To give students a short range of texts so
                 supporting and monitoring your students’           they can use them to explore texts akin to
                 progress with regard to the benchmarks of          those used in each practice.
                 the level of proficiency in English.            •  To be a guide for your students to identify
              •  A transcript of the audio tracks for each          the features of texts they can look up in
                 practice, so that you have access to this          libraries or on the web. Having different
                 content and you may use it as you like.            models is useful for your students to find out
              •  A reference section with the materials used        whether texts are useful for their purposes
                 within the @ccess didactic pack.                   or not.

              3.  CD. The audio tracks, whose transcripts are    •  To show different text formats belonging
                 included on the CD and Teacher's Book, are         to the different texts contained in this
                 identified in the Student's Book by means          book. Since it is an anthology, each text has
                 of an icon. These are used throughout the          different graphic components to distinguish
                 practices to:                                      it from the others. The purpose is to display
                                                                    the wide array of text formats the book is
              •  Model expressions used while discussing or         comprised of.
                 exchanging ideas, feelings, experiences, etc.   •  To help you enhance your didactic practice
              •  Make evident how questions are asked and           with a number of texts to work with. This
                 answered in different situations.                  will help you to compose similar texts to be
              •  Offer models of different English variants.        shared with your students.
              •  Work with acoustic features such as voice
                 volume, pace and tone.
                                                                                  Remember:
              Though the audio tracks were created for the
              aforementioned purposes, you are free to use                        A section with
              them as you like.                                                   information
                                                                                  you already
                            Being Through                    RB: This icon        know, but
                              Language                       leads you to         that should
                                                             your Reader's        be taken into
              Being through language:            Reader's    Book.                account when

              A section with information         Book page 21                     carrying out          Remember
              about behaviors and attitudes                                       some activities.     The participants
                                                                                                       in a dialogue
                                                                                                        are called
              that foster communication.                     This icon gives                            interlocutors.
                                                             you the cue to         IT     This icon
                                                             play a CD track               provides
                                                  TRACK 2
                                                             (your teacher                 suggested
              Individual     Team activity                   will play it).                websites.

                                                                                             Glossary:
                                                             The translation         pride
                                                                                      page 180
                                                             of difficult words       Glossary on   This icon indicates
                  Pair        Whole-class                    is represented                  to check a word in
                                activity                     by this icon.                   the Glossary section.




                                                                                                 Teacher’s Book   13
   9   10   11   12   13   14   15   16   17   18   19