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Activity 17
FOR OUR PRESENTATION • Remind your students to keep

17. Compose notes to answer the questions you came up with in Activity 6. their information in order.
You should: Model how to use flags, notes
• Keep in mind the summaries that your team and the other team produced or other methods that will
in Activity 14.
• Condense the information from the summaries for your explanation. If you help your students distinguish
are unsure of how to do it, look at the notes you took in the previous activity which information belongs
and in the Take a note section. Look at the example: to which questions.

QUESTION INFORMATION EXPLANATION • This is another step that may
QUESTION
QUESTION
QUESTION
A language is much Language is a way of help to cut unnecessary
Why is it more than a means of thinking, and includes information out of the
important to communication; it is the
Remember keep languages vector of a way of thinking, people’s culture, history, presentation. Remember, an
myths and music.
Two ways of alive? a culture, the depository effective presentation should
summarizing are to of a people’s history, its
use synonyms and be trimmed and streamlined
to paraphrase (say mythology, its creation
something in your myths, its music... so it can get the point
own words). session 7
across convincingly.
18. Read the following components of a presentation and write the name of the Activity 18
section (opening, development, closure and questions from the audiences)
in the spaces. Look at the example.
in the spaces. Look at the example.
• As in the activity related to
Development
describing the summarizing
We had a question: Were all the
Opening languages spoken in a country spoken
process, it is important here to
by the same percentage of the
Good afternoon, everyone! We population? Well, we did some research provide clues rather than
are team number 3, composed of and we found out that languages were the answer.
Paula, Diego and Elena and we are
spoken by different percentages of
here today to share some data the population. But we found out about Parts of a presentation. Presentation outlines • Have your students provide
about linguistic diversity with you. something called endangered languages. suggestions about the
Questions from headings. It does not matter
the audience
Closure Well, this is the end of our presentation. if they don’t match exactly
Are there any questions? with the names provided in
In short, when you have What do you mean when you say
many languages, you have that “when a language is alive, the the answers. You may use
many different ways of culture and traditions of that language those names as a basis to
seeing the world.
are alive as well?” Continue this activity on the next page approach and understand the
Studentʼs Book / Practice 9 155 “conventional” names.
• Play the track so your students can understand the general meaning. Then play it as many times as you
think is necessary.

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