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Activity 18
18. Read the following trip schedule.
• Provide your students
with different examples of From: Texcoco To: Chapultepec Date: July 20
schedules, besides the one Time Activities
provided in the book, so that 7:30 Departure
your students have a number 9:00 Arrival at Chapultepec and breakfast
of models to use for their 10:00 Chapultepec Castle
own schedule.
• Be sure your students 13:00 Lunch
understand the content of 14:00 Relaxing time in the forest
the schedule. 16:00 Major Lake in the first section of Chapultepec
• You can use this activity 17:00 Paddle boating on the lake
to foster confidence when 19:00 Making our way to the bus
reading aloud. You could 20:30 Arrival in Texcoco
ask different students to read
different sections of • Describe what kinds of elements are displayed in this schedule.
the schedule. • Comment on how the activities are distributed throughout the day and
exchange opinions about what changes you would suggest (what would
Activity 19 19. Listen to Track 54. Pay attention to the sections shown below where
you add, delete, lengthen or shorten).
rack 54 • In this activity, your students reasons are expressed. TRACK 54
will be working with
• Complete the expressions used to give reasons. Look at the example.
arguments for and against
since
morning
quite heavy
T proposals. Arguments are » This team thinks that traffic is in the , we
should leave at 9 a.m.
expressed using a connective » That's too early, some of us close to .
don’t live
seeing as
school
plus a noun and verb As some of us
arrive late
expression. That configuration » may unfortunately , let’s say we get there
at 7 and leave at 7:30.
identifies that the sentence is » Are you sure about that? won’t come .
cheap
Because renting a bus
being used as an argument,
will have a day
because
activities
for example: This team thinks » We need to eat breakfast, we full of .
that since (connective) traffic
• Comment on how the expressions to give reasons are formed. Remember you will
(noun) is (verb) quite heavy use them to defend your proposal.
in the morning…
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• Tell your students to focus on
the nouns and verbs. Remind
your students that word order in English is quite fixed, so nouns tend to appear before verbs.
• Remind your students to take time to read the prompts before listening to the track. Play the track.

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