Page 123 - @ccess 2 Teacher´s Book

Activity 6
• Ask students to scan the extract
in their book and to predict
which expressions are said
with different intonations. They
should be able to recognize
that questions have a different
intonation than statements.
• Play the track and tell students
to focus on the changes in
intonation.
• Ask if Wangari Maathai speaks
in the same way throughout the
anecdote. What happens when
she asks the questions and
when she invites the women to
plant trees? Does she switch the
tone when imitating the women
and their response?
• Encourage students to repeat
Maathai’s invitation and the
women’s answer.
Activity 7

• Provide some guidance so
students can identify how the
variations in tone change the
conversation, and what effect
they have.
• Invite a couple of students to
perform the dialogue with you.
• Encourage them to continue the
discussion and ask some follow-up questions so they reach
a conclusion.
• If you have access to a computer, play the video so students can watch Wangari Maathai tell her anecdote
and match their conclusions to what she expresses through her body language.
Activity 8
• Allow some time for students to scan the transcripts.
racks 37 and 38 • Encourage them to predict
• Ask if they found any
differences between the two English variants.

what types of words vary in each version.
• Play the tracks and pause them every time students have to write down the missing words.
• Encourage students to read each version with the appropriate pronunciation.

• The CD icon will appear throughout the practice to indicate the activity the track is linked to. However,
T • Help them determine if the anecdote they selected is in British or American English.
remember the way we order activities is a suggestion and you may change them to suit the purposes you
established with your students.

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