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Activity 25
25. Practice reading your forecasts aloud.
• You may refer to other
26. Check that your forecasts fulfill the aspects below. practices where reading
✘ ❘ ✔ aloud is emphasized so as to
Aspects know which aspects may be
a) Forecasts are positive because they help others improve. focused in this activity.
b) Forecasts are based on real situations. Activity 26
c) Forecasts don’t offend anyone.
• It is essential that your
d) Forecasts offer a positive outcome. students check and double
check during the revision
27. Make cards that show attitudes that should be shown while phase of this practice that
reading your forecasts aloud. Look at the examples.
their forecast is satisfactory
not only in content, but also
in the issues and the way they
session
Silence Interest are dealt with in the forecast.
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Respect Attention • In this activity, the focus is
on empathy when saying
things and to consider time,
place and occasion when
interacting with others.
Also, it’s important that
28. Along with your teacher, decide the day you'll forecasts may be sensible
be reading your forecasts aloud in front of and don’t raise issues that
the class. Remember to use the cards
Socializing a forecast
Socializing a forecast
you prepared in the previous activity. may hurt others’ feelings or
susceptibility. This does not
29. Share your proposals to widen
the appeal of your forecasts. For mean to censor or refrain
example, use:
from talking about issues
• School newspaper. such as disease or disaster
• Social networks.
(that may be a present or
future occurrence), but the
way of talking about them
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should be as objective and non-exaggerated as possible. This activity tries to put limits to acceptable and
unacceptable forecasts. However, it’s better to give recommendations rather than a long list of don’ts.
Activity 27

• You and your students may include other attitudes that you consider suitable (like Slow!, if the reader is at
a fast pace).

Activity 28
• If there are many classs of one grade, you may organize a collective read-adloud, if schedule allows it.
• Remember that, as the product will be displayed in the classroom, your students may want to use a
material (if available) that leaves them a chance to display their forecast in a bigger size.
Activity 29
• Help your students to assess the impact of their language product on their addressees. Some questions
to reflect upon this are: did they understand the content of the forecast? during the dialogue, the range of
expressions were convenient? was the tone convincing?, etc.

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