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19. Choose a partner to have a dialogue with about your forecasts and then
compose your first draft. Activity 19
• Use the questions and answers as a memory aid. session 8
• Establish turns for the conversation. • Get ready if your students
• Remember to use greetings and farewell expressions. Look at the example. notice that connectives may
Interlocutor 1 Interlocutor 2 be used in positions that are
not only between sentences,
_ Hi, Vale. _ Hi, Gaby.
_ By then, technological advances will as this may give you
bring us new devices to explore our
universe. New discoveries will probably be chances to think about how
made by Mexicans. Also we will be able to
visit other countries. We will surely have connectives also link elements
faster, more efficient and environmentally
_ What new developments will be different from sentences.
achieved in the next 25 years? friendly transportation to go there in ten Composing drafts
years. We will still be living in this town and • Check whether the
our houses will still be the same. However, sequence of the dialogue
the sports park they’re building right now
will be finished shortly, so in 25 years we is understandable. You may
will be going there at least once a week
to do some exercise. use a flow chart as a way to
_ We will celebrate the end of secondary verify the sequence. However,
We will celebrate the end of secondary
school with our families, we shall go to
school with our families, we shall go to
_ Have you ever thought about how our remember that orality is laxer
our chosen high school in three years’
life will be after secondary school? our chosen high school in three years’
time. Once we finish, we’ll go to college to
time. Once we finish, we’ll go to college to than writing, so try that it
study science.
_ So it will depend on us to decide what sounds as a dialogue and not
_ Quite right, Vale.
we want to do. as disjointed sentences.
_ Well, it was nice seeing you, but I should
get going. I should run some errands _ Yeah, we’ll talk some more later. See ya. Yeah, we’ll talk some more later. See ya. • One trick to help in this
before going home.
balance is to help your
Now, to compose your first draft: errand (n.): students to express
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• Decide how to incorporate the answers you gave in the themselves. If they are
previous activity to the beginning, body and closure of your forecasts. assertive, comprehension
previous activity to the beginning, body and closure of your forecasts.
• Remember that you may follow a different order from
the one you used to write your questions. may be more easily achieved;
it is more difficult to foster
Example: Remember self-trust than to correct
Beginning _ We will celebrate the end of
secondary school with our families, we shall text is going from grammar or pronunciation
A way to write a
go to our chosen high school in three years’ general to specific mistakes.
time. Once we finish, we’ll go to information.
college to study science. • Make your students notice
that forecasts do not have a
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fixed structure (for example, if
we examine how a weather report is composed, we won’t find a strict chronological order in every single
report). Thus the structure is more akin to decide what they want to use as a beginning, what they will use
to develop give more details in the middle section and what can constitute and adequate ending.
• Let them explore creatively and freely ways to organize their text and help them to reflect upon the effect
it may give when written to their addressee. Remember, text structure is not a straitjacket to which your
students should commit their texts, but rather an envelope which may be altered to suit the tastes of their
intention and their addressee.
• A diagram could be useful to help your students to determine the changes of order between their
dialogue and their first draft.

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