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Activity 20
• Help your students compose
richer sentences that broaden
and clarify their initial meaning.
Remind them that they can form a
single unit of meaning with two or
more verbs in the same sentence.
• Be sure to check that they are
creating their own sentences
based on what they read and not
merely lifting the sentences from
their sources. If necessary, you
can give them prompts that help
them develop their own ideas.
• The differences in use between
simple past, present perfect
and past perfect is commonly
misunderstood. If most of your
students speak Spanish, this
will be an even more difficult
issue, because Spanish features
a wide array of past tenses that
do not have a one-to-one match.
You may want to tackle this once
they begin composing their
paragraphs but having a look
at your students’ sentences will
give you a better understanding
of the situation.

Activity 21
• If your students have an overall
high level of English, you may
introduce new structures for organizing the report, such as beginning with an event in the middle or the
end and then retracing the chain of events that led to it. In examinations, learners attempting unusual
structures usually obtain higher grades, even if it is not successfully done.
• Suggest your students check the texts they have read throughout this practice as models for creating their
own sentences.
• Insist that, when writing in English, less is better. That is, if they are precise, concision is not a problem.
Therefore, they don’t have to spend much time trying to make long sentences.
Activity 22
• Providing nuance and emphasis are language skills that allow for flexibility and they are the basis of
becoming a proficient and efficient English user.
• Providing nuance does not mean giving different information (or, worse, lying). It is simply a way of adjusting
the language to the addressee and giving enough information to have a broader viewpoint. This is especially
useful with regard to historic texts, since it is possible that we don’t have every perspective. That way, your
students will be more objective, more so than if they stated everything as incontrovertible facts.

• Providing nuance is also a useful strategy when arguing about complex issues (be it in writing or
when speaking).

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