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Activity 5 (continues)
• Help your students to write
small conclusions from their
discussions. Even if they do not
agree on everything, this will
provide a sense of fulfillment,
so your students don’t feel they
are discussing for the sake
of discussing.
• Remember, one of the expected
learning outcomes for this
practice is to give reasons why
they are interested in a specific
issue. If your students need
more activities to do so, you may
want to move the activities
from the end of Building stage to
this point.

Activity 6
• The focus of this pedagogical
approach is not grammar nor
vocabulary, not because they
are not important, but rather
because by themselves they
are insufficient to communicate.
Learning a list of expressions for
showing support and solidarity
by heart won’t make anyone
empathetic towards
anyone else and to use
language to convey said empathy. This is why we don’t show such lists of expressions: they are almost
impossible to compile when considering the variability and the number of issues, addressees, settings and
prior experiences of your students.
• Notwithstanding this, it is useful to know some common fixed expressions that may come in handy
and that are frequent for English users, such as: It’s worth a shot, You might as well, Keep it up, Hang in
there, It’s your call. These are everyday expressions and may help to generate good rapport with
English-speaking people.

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