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Activity 17 CHECKPOINT
• This self-assessment activity log (n.):
may be useful for designing 17. It’s time to check your performance up to this point. In order to bitácora
habitual activities that best do so, complete the following log.
suit your students’ taste. The texts I liked the most were:
If you read carefully your
While reading them, I thought that:
students’ answers you’ll
know what text types may My partner suggests I can improve by:
be more convenient to
develop and foster a positive 18. Read the scrambled sentences below. These are answers to the question
attitude towards English in Activity 16.
and the ways it’s used to Sentences
communicate. - We will still be living in this town.
• Remind your students that - In 25 years, we will be going there at least once a week.
assessment is an excellent - Our houses will still be the same.
- We'll do some exercise.
chance to re-plan or set Using present situations to compose a prediction - The sports park they’re building right now will be finished shortly.
goals that can be achieved • Look at the table of connectives below.
within the practice and
to postpone those that Connectives
need more work to be and so
however
to
accomplished. Remember,
lowering expectations is • Decide which ones you will use and when you will use them, according to the link
you identified between sentences.
not a bad thing, if the ones • For your dialogue, write the questions and answers you composed using the proper
set at the beginning are connectives in a chart similar to the one below. Look at the example.
unachievable for practical session 7 Interlocutor 1 Interlocutor 2
reasons. The aim is to correct We will still be living in this town and (because it links two
and to refocus on achievable What new ideas that refer to the same topic ) our houses will still be
the same. However, (to establish a contrast with something
collective goals which may developments previously written) the sports park they’re building right
bring together the joint will be carried out? now will be finished shortly, so (to establish a consequence)
in 25 years we will be going there at least once a week to
effort of the class and the (to introduce a purpose) do some exercise.
participants in each team.
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Activity 18
• In other practices, the contents are designed to develop how to add details.Your students may refer to
those practices so that their forecasts have enough information so they may be more appealing.
• It is common that students use prepositions in the same way they us them in their mother tongue. Show
them the use of the prepositions in this activity, as well as in others, demonstrating similarities and
differences in their meaning and use. Sometimes, these difficulties are due to the lack of practice about
reflecting upon the use of prepositions in their mother tongue. Remind your students they already have
knowledge about using the language and they are able to use that knowledge about communication when
using another language different to their mother tongue.
• Remind your students the answers aren’t still a text so they need to create the links (using connectives)
between sentences to compose it. Model them the proper use of connectives and the type of contrasts of
meaning when they use different prepositions.
• Prescriptive usage of prepositions is exceedingly complex in any language. Even native speakers may
doubt on the correct use of a preposition in some situations. For an English speaker of other languages
(ESOL), finer distinctions of prepositions may be common mistakes even at higher levels of proficiency
(for example, knowing how to use consistently in/at/on) and mistakes should be expected. However, it is
desirable to foster activities that help your students to reduce their rate of errors.
• The CD icon will appear throughout the unit to indicate the activity the track is linked to. However,
remember the way we order activities is a suggestion and you may change them.

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