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•  Suggestions to develop each activity in         Though the audio tracks were created for the
                 the three stages involved in producing          aforementioned purposes, you are free to use
                 a language product (warm-up, building,          them as you like.
                 closure). These suggestions include
                 attitudes, values and behaviors expected        4.  Reader’s Book. This material is an
                 while interacting, basic skills and linguistic     anthology that provides students with a
                 details involved in communication and              number of different texts to acquaint them
                 strategies for learning how to learn.              with the English language. It was created
              •  Assessment instruments with the aim of             with the following aims:
                 supporting and monitoring your students’
                 progress with regard to the benchmarks of       •  To offer texts in English so that members
                                                                    of the school community have access to
                 the level of proficiency in English.
              •  A transcript of the audio tracks for each          materials in this language.
                 practice, so that you have access to this       •  To give students a short range of texts akin
                 content and you may use it as you like.            to those used in each practice.
              •  A reference section with the materials used     •  To be a guide for your students to identify
                                                                    the features of texts they can look up in
                 within the @ccess didactic pack.
                                                                    libraries or on the web. Having different
              3.  CD. The audio tracks, whose transcripts           models is useful for your students to find out
                 are included on the CD and in the Teacher’s        whether texts are useful for their purposes
                 Book, are identified in the Student’s Book         or not.
                 by means of an icon. These are used             •  To show the different text formats of the
                 throughout the practices to:                       different texts contained in this book. Since
                                                                    it is an anthology, each text has different
              •  Model expressions used while discussing or         graphic components to distinguish it from
                 exchanging ideas, feelings, experiences, etc.      the others.
              •  Illustrate how to ask and answer questions in   •  To help you to enhance your didactic
                 different situations.                              practice by providing you with a number
              •  Offer models of different English variants.        of texts to work with. This will help you to
              •  Work with acoustic features such as voice          compose similar texts to be shared with
                 volume, pace and tone.
                                                                    your students.



                            Being Through                    RB: This icon        Remember:
                              Language                       leads you to         A section with
              Being through language:            Reader's    your Reader's        information you
                                                             Book.
              A section with information         Book page 21                     already know, but
                                                                                  that should be taken
              about behaviors and attitudes                                       into account when
              that foster communication.                                                                Remember
                                                             This icon gives      carrying out some    The participants
                                                             you the cue to       activities.          in a dialogue
                                                                                                        are called
                                                                                                        interlocutors.
                                                 TRACK 10    play a CD track               This icon
                                                             (your teacher          IT
                                                             will play it).                provides
              Individual     Team activity                                                 suggested
                                                                                           websites.

                                                             The translation         fables
                                                             of difficult            lawyer  Glossary:
                  Pair        Whole-class                    words is                 Glossary on   This icon indicates
                                                                                      page 182
                                activity                     represented by                  to check a word in
                                                             this icon.                      the Glossary section.



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