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Activity 21
• When technical texts are short,
they tend to omit the details and
just address the main ideas.
That is useful at this stage, but
it becomes harder when they
need to paraphrase. Help your
students distinguish the main
ideas so that they don’t end up
with a high number of them,
which would make them difficult
to manage.
• Main ideas are one of the
details focused on in this level
in certification exams and such.
Do not worry if your students
don’t get this at first or even at
all in this practice. One of the
goals of moving from basic user
to independent user, according
to CEFR, is to gradually expand
from using only main ideas to
enriching them by
adding details.
Activity 22
• Remind your students that the
size, colors and other features T
of their images should be
appropriate for the addressee of rack 35
their infographic.

• Interculturality is something that exists not only between people who speak different languages, but also
between people who speak the same language. Being aware of different words for the same object in
different variants is a window into the historical and cultural differences between England and those
countries where English-speaking people arrived at later points of history.
• For example, a common difference in technical vocabulary is the history of the words trunk and boot,
which refer to the storage compartment of a car. Trunk refers to the fact that people used trunks
(wooden rectangular boxes) to carry their clothes when traveling; boot refers to the storage compartment
in coaches.
• If available, this task may become easier by using stock images from different repositories on the Web.

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