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Activity 13
13. Read the following information.

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title to anticipate the content
of the text.
How many languages are there in the world? • Answer questions about rack 43
When people are asked how many languages they think there are in
the world, the answers vary quite a bit. One random sampling of New unknown expressions. It is
Yorkers, for instance, resulted in answers like “probably several hundred.” not, however, necessary to
The 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, for example, implies
a figure somewhere around 1,000. The most extensive catalog of the explain every word. Help
world’s languages, generally taken to be as authoritative as any, is that of your students to develop their
Ethnologue, whose detailed list as of 2009 included 6,909 distinct languages.
That disparity is not due to any increase in the number of languages, but ability to infer meaning from
rather to our increased understanding of how many languages are actually context instead of worrying
spoken in areas that had previously been underreported.
Source: Lingüistic Society of America: http://goo.gl/Rdj616 about not understanding each
individual word.
• Help your students to
sampling
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• Listen to Track 43 to hear how three students retell the determine how the characters
text you just read. TRACK 43 in the track have summarized
14. Read your texts. session 5 its content. That is, what kind
• Get together with another team.
• With the supervision of your teacher, summarize the other team’s of information is kept and
passage. If necessary, use the techniques employed in Activity 13, Track 43. what is discarded in their
summaries.
CHECKPOINT
Activity 14
15. It is time to check your performance up to this point. In order to do so: • Supervise your students while
• Read each description carefully.
• Put a tick next to the description that best illustrates your performance in they read their texts. Help
this practice. Applying and showing reading strategies students with comprehension
I am able to interpret the purpose of many textual components if needed.
with a high degree of precision. • Remind your students to use
Level 4 I am able to use a wide range of reading strategies for a wide
array of texts. the indices in their sources
I am able to interpret the purpose of various textual components to facilitate their search for
Level 3 with a relative degree of precision. information. They will then
I am able to use a wide range of reading strategies for some texts. have the chance to read more

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Activity 15

• Make sure your students understand what each description implies.
• Remind your students that they can be on different levels for each task mentioned in the descriptions.
• Foster a pleasant environment (respectful, collaborative, cooperative) to evaluate each student’s
performance so far within this practice.
• Help your students to detect the reasons why they were successful or not in the activities carried out. Take
into account that recognizing one’s strengths is as important as knowing one’s limitations.
• Remind your students that feedback should be offered in an assertive but constructive way. This means
they should not lie to their partner, but their comments should be just and based on evidence.

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