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Activity 28
Continue Activity 27 below
• Encourage your students
to bring material to class For our instruction manual
for making their set of
instructions. They will need: How to use a bilingual dictionary (first draft)
cards or a big sheet of paper Composing drafts a) When you find the word you were looking up, pay close attention to the
following details:
and markers. • Bold letters: indicate a new word and its correct spelling
• Help your students to get • Abbreviations: indicate if a word is a noun, an adjective, a verb and so on
organized in their teams and • Italics: indicate abbreviations
to write their instructions in b) Find the word according to the order of the letters that compose it. Remember
an ordered way. dictionaries are organized in alphabetical order.
• Animate your students by
playing the following game: session 10 c) Make sure the word you are looking up is spelled correctly.
Put them into teams and give d) Identify the two main sections in the bilingual dictionary: Spanish-English and
each team the same words to English-Spanish.
look up their definition. The e) Find the word by looking for the first letter of the word, then the second, the
winning team will be the first third, etc. Remember dictionaries are organized in alphabetical order.
one to write all the definitions f) When you find the word you were looking up, pay close attention to the
correctly on a sheet of paper. following detail:
If you want to, you can then • Italics: indicate abbreviations.
have students write a short
text using those words. 28. Check that your first draft has...
a) the correct number of instructions.
b) the appropriate sequence of instructions.
c) the instructions written in imperative mood. Look at the example.
I have already I suggest we add an
You have to checked instruction to explain how Ok, let’s
the instructions with a word may have more
change the sequence get back
Luis. Imperative than one definition.
of the instructions. to work.
mood is ok.
They are scrambled.
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