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Activity 16
Continue Activity 15 below
• Use the example for Text 1 to I am able to interpret the purpose of some textual components
explain what was taken from Level 2 with a high degree of precision.
the original text. Ask your I am able to use some reading strategies for different texts.
students in what measure the I am able to interpret the purpose of some textual components
same techniques are used Level 1 with relative precision.
I am able to use some reading strategies for some texts.
again for Texts 2 and 3.
• It is important that you resist • Compare your opinions with those of your partner. Comment on why you
agree or disagree with her/his assessment.
the temptation to provide the
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Read each piece of i
answer if the activity becomes 16. Read each piece of information and its summary..
difficult. In order to avoid
doing so, help your students Information
to get the answer by asking
A language is much more than a means of
communication; it is the vector of a way of thinking,
direct questions, such as: Text 1
Do you think this fragment a culture, the depository of a people’s history, its
was deleted? Do you this Composing notes. Summarizing and paraphrasing mythology, its creation myths, its music. Text 1 Summary
An endangered language is one that is likely to
expression here was changed Text 2 Language is a way of thinking, and
languages are no longer being learned by new
includes people’s culture, history,
to…?, etc. become extinct in the near future. Many other that will become extinct because
generations of children or by new adult speakers;
myths and music.
Text 2
these languages will become extinct when their
Endangered languages are those
last speaker dies.
children don’t learn them anymore.
Text 3
Text 3
languages, generally taken to be as authoritative
as any, is that of Ethnologue, whose detailed
Ethnologue is a catalog of the
session 6 The most extensive catalog of the world’s distinct languages.
list as of 2009 included 6,909 distinct languages.
world’s languages. It lists 6909
• With your teacher’s help, write a description of how the summaries above were
achieved in your notebook. Look at the example.
How it was done?
Text 1 Text 2 Text 3
In Text 1, we kept in mind that the key
words are in bold, we deleted information
that we didn’t think was important, and
used the information that was helpful to us.
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