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Activity 37
Being Through ◗ Remember the way you speak reflects your attitude. ◗ Show confidence to • Read out the Being through
Language help your partners be confident. ◗ Remember not to interrupt. ◗ If you want to
intervene, wait for a pause or make a polite gesture. the language section with
students and remind them to
How did it go?
apply the suggestions at
all times.
37. Read each line carefully. Tick the box that best describes your work in
this unit. • Keep in mind that the purpose
Individual • I can compose expressions to provide session 12 of the formative evaluation is
assessment information about a community service.
that the students are made
• I can adjust the volume and speed of my aware of not only what they
speech while giving information about a
community service. know, but also of how it is that
they know it.
Product • Promote an environment
38. How do we assess the following aspects of our dialogue? that fosters students’ desire
Making a • Did our dialogue have enough information
dialogue to be sincere about their
to be understood?
performance and what they
• Did the adjustments we made to our
dialogue improve our fluency? know or don’t know about
the social practice of the
• Did we offer feedback after producing
a dialogue? language they have been
working on.
Assessing the process and the product
39. What is your teammates’ global impression about your performance Activity 38
in this unit? Look at the example.
Aspects to improve • Encourage your students to
Team
assessment Completed his/her tasks on time. appreciate their performance
throughout this practice by
recognizing their strengths
and limitations with regard
to their English language
proficiency and competence.
• Verify the students have
We have arrived at the end of this practice.
understood the main ideas
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share information about the
dialogues they produced.
• Encourage your students to appreciate the impact their language product has on their listeners, for
example by using questions such as: Did you understand what the dialogue is about? Were the
selected expressions used by the interlocutors right? Was the
tone appropriate?

Activity 39
• This activity uses the student’s teammates’ opinions to evaluate the language product produced. It can also
be used to evaluate the team’s solidarity, commitment, responsibility and ability to effectively communicate
using the target language.
• Keep in mind this is about evaluating the language product got and also the students’ learning the use of
social skills (solidarity, commitment, responsibility, et cetera) that are implicit in the process that led to the
result and the appropriation of the social practice of language.
• Show students the advantages of receiving observations from their classmates about their performance
and take advantage of this chance to help students to recognize the types of attitude and behavior that
favor that performance.

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