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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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