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Activity 4
• This activity should help 4. Read the following forecasts. 4 PHYSICS OF THE FUTURE:
your students reflect HOW SCIENCE WILL SHAPE HUMAN
DESTINY AND OUR DAILY LIVES
forecasting / predicting is an 1 WEATHER FORECAST TODAY BY THE YEAR 2100
activity people do on a daily Last night it rained and this Driverless car
morning we woke up to fog,
In the near future, you will
basis, sometimes without however the weather today will also be able to safely surf the
be fine. It’s going to be partly
realizing it. It is based on Graphic components cloudy in the morning, and then web via your contact lens while
we are going to have a mostly
driving a car. Commuting to work
won’t be such an agonizing chore
planning and this purpose sunny afternoon. because cars will drive themselves.
demands a set language 2 Aquarius Driverless cars
are already using GPS to locate
(expressions that indicate (January 21-February 19) their position to within a few feet
and can drive hundreds of miles. 1
future, such as verbs, adverbs little bored. However, you’ll soon 1 Michio Kaku (2011). Physics of the
These days you’ve been busy and a
and others). Remember also have things to do, at your school, future: how science will shape human
destiny and our daily lives by the year
at home, and with your friends.
to foster the cultural links Your health will receive a blow 2100. Doubleday: New York, p. 21.
if you stay up late too often. In
between their own culture session 2 your love life, you’ll soon meet commuting
and those of English speaking someone who will drive you crazy. (n.): trayecto para
ir al trabajo
Your lucky number is 13.
driverless
countries, by allowing them (n.): sin conductor
GPS (n.): sistema de
posicionamiento global
to reflect and express what posicionamiento global Remember
(sistema que emplea
satélites para ubicar
they do in their culture for objetos, lugares o Function of graphic
personas)
rope (n.): cuerda and textual elements
predicting. Title: It is a
• Before reading the texts, ask My Se r t if it’s a girl, they will name description of the
content for the
3
reader. It summarizes
some questions to anticipate Diary her Samantha. You know? the text.
I want her to be born
completes the title
topic, based on graphic and soon, because I will have Subtitle: It
Saturday, January 17th another cousin to play or gives additional
text arrangement. Dear Diary, with. I will teach her to information.
Illustrations: They
play soccer and to jump
• To support those students My aunt is pregnant. rope. I’m so thrilled. support, depict or
We just got the news give an example of
with lesser proficiency in yesterday. Mom says she what the text says.
Dates: They show
will have a baby boy; but
pronunciation and reading they don’t know yet. If it’s time lapses to guide
a boy, my aunt and uncle depict readers.
to overcome their difficulties, will name him Francisco; Glossary on Bold letters: They
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highlight a part of
foster a respectful and the text.
Uppercase letters:
warmth environment; then 5. Comment on which text(s) are difficult to understand and They are used to
highlight, after
invite them why. Use the information below as a hint. certain punctuation
and for certain
to read the texts aloud. word types.
• Read little by little so that your 78 Studentʼs Book / Practice 5
students may detect whether
or not their anticipations
were right.
Activity 5
• Although this activity contains the name of the graphic and text components (bullets, bold letter, images,
etc.), as in other activities in other practices that deal with those components, the focus is not their name,
but rather how they help to name the text and distinguish it from other texts.
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