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Activity 25
• Motivate students to take 25. Reread the points of view and take a stand. Some members of your team
might be in favor, and some against. That is good, so you will be able to have
a stand regarding the an enriching discussion.
discussion. Do they agree with 26. Divide your team in two: those against and those in favor.
the behaviors portrayed • Once you have taken a stand, think about how to support your points of view and
or not? convince the interlocutors.
• Consider looking for clues in the comic strip and reflecting on the implications
• Remind them to consider the the situations, and attitudes have.
points of view in the chart, • Look at the example below.
since they will use them
during the discussion.
In favor
• Model the activity if necessary » People are allowed to do whatever they want in their free time. isolate (v.):
aislarse
and provide some examples. » The Internet is part of our lives; we can’t do much to prohibit it. self-centered
(adj.):
egocéntrica
to bear: (v.):
» They should take advantage of the fact that there is free WiFi in the
soportar
Activity 26 restaurant. In Mexico, not every food establishment has free WiFi. left out(adj.):
excluido
encourage: (v.):
fomentar
» There are so many stimuli in the city that when we’re in public
• Tell students to divide their we always isolate ourselves. Nobody speaks to strangers in a
restaurant. They didn’ t do it before smartphones, either.
team according to each » We always pay attention to what we are interested in: our
member of the team’s stand. always been self-centered.
thoughts, a newspaper, or our cellphones. We have
The people in favor should » As more and more of our world
takes place online, the idea of
work together, and the people being disconnected becomes harder
against will do the same. They Common-sense opinions. Examples. Points of view social media, we don’ t want to be
to bear. Everything is happening on
will reunite later. left out.
• Encourage students to enrich » The promise of constant connectivity
encourages more people to go to
their points of view with some food establishments with free WiFi.
examples, data or evidence to
support them. Being Through
• Go through the example with Language ◗ Show interest in other peoples and cultures.
them and elicit what
was added. 27. Engage in a discussion with your original team.
• Use the points of view you wrote in Activity 25 and support them
Activity 27 session 8 • Identify any common-sense opinions that might arise and question them.
with the reasons you provided in Activity 26.
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original teams to practice
the discussion.
T • Play the track to model the
activity and focus on common-sense opinions.
• Ask them why the interlocutors on the track believe that behavior is not worth discussing.
• Give a couple of examples and elicit a description of common sense and how to respond to these types
of interventions.
• Encourage them to think about other ways of responding and to check the options in their book.
• Ask them to present the points of view in favor and against and to support them with the evidence they
found in the previous activity.
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