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Activity 20
Closure stage-socialization
• Allow your students to listen
to the track as many times 20. Listen to the forecasts on Track 18 and think about: TRACK 18
as necessary (within the a) Their topics.
rack 18 • Confirm whether they have 21. With your teacher's help, write a small text that describes the current
b) What the texts describe, what they are and their current purpose.
allocated time to this activity).

T understood the instruction Contrasting present and future situations situation for each forecast. Look at the example.
by briefly explaining or
demonstrating what are they Current situation Forecast
going to do. Currently, it is possible to surf the web In the near future, you will also be able
• Invite them to use body using devices like mobile phones, tablets, to safely surf the web via your contact
etc. However, there are dangers when
lens while driving a car.
language to distinguish the surfing.
different pitches used in
the track. Forecast
Activity 21 session 9 session 9 Current situation Commuting to work won’t be such an
agonizing chore because cars will drive
• Remember that according themselves.
to the topic predictions,
preference may be given to
one form of future. Thus, it is
important to create conditions chore (n.):
labor
so as to reflect in the other Current situation
future verb forms, according Forecast
Driverless cars, using GPS to locate their
to the topics selected by position to within a few feet, will drive
your students. hundreds of miles.
• Take care that your
students do not simply revert
the forecast (that is, if the
forecast says something like:
“commuting to work won’t
be such an agonizing chore, 86 Studentʼs Book / Practice 5
because cars will drive ” the
current situation may not be
something like: we don’t have a child”. Allow and give chances by offering suggestions and support for
writing more complex descriptions of the current situation.
• The purpose of this activity is that your students may see the differences between the present situation
and the forecast, so that when they compose the second draft of their forecast, they get to write fuller,
richer descriptions.

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