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Activity 8
• Words are in alphabetical 8. Check how the words are organized in activity 7 and complete the
order. following statement.
• Make sure your students
alphabetical
understand that the sections • Words are in order.
for each language do not
show word equivalents Alphabetical order in a dictionary 9. Use a bilingual dictionary and find words that start with the letter of your
but clues to understand choice. Look at the example.
grammatical aspects, as well a) Words that start with “d”
as information about culture, dad, dagger, daily, dairy, daisy...
use, et cetera.
• An example of this in Spanish b) Words that start with “do”
may be a polysemic word
such as “padre”. You may ask
your students how they would session 4
explain the use of this word to c) Words that start with “dow”

an English-speaker?

Activity 9 10. List words in alphabetical order about things or activities you are interested in.
Look at the example.
• Monitor and help students
copy information accurately. • Save three pages of your notebook for your own dictionary, and save a space for
every letter of the alphabet.
Help with meaning where
needed.
• Encourage students to share Example:
their answers with a partner » alone
» chat
or with the whole class. » clear
• Encourage students to play » messenger
“Dictionary” in small teams: » send
A student looks up an unusual
word in English and the rest
of the team must write down
made-up definitions for it. 48 Studentʼs Book / Practice 3
When they finish, they must
share their definitions. The
winning definition is the one closest to the actual definition. The student that looked it up must read the
correct definition, and then it’s another person on the team’s turn to look up a different word.
• Go through the answers with your students.

Activity 10
• Check that the words chosen by your students belong to different word classes; thus achieving variety in
the range of abbreviations and graphic components employed.
• The purpose of this activity is that students get used to looking up the meaning of words they do not know
or they need to clarify. It is useful to remember to do this activity throughout the school year.

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