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Activity 19
• This activity and the one that
follows are linked and are aimed
at helping your students reflect
upon how to present different
stances regarding an issue.
• Help your students detect
the differences between the
expressions and how the
presentation of arguments may
vary according to the ones
they use.

• Provide your students with
insights about cultural
differences when presenting
opinions. In general, when
using English, American,
Canadian and British people
tend to be quite direct with their
questioning. In Mexico, we tend
to provide more context.

Activity 20
• Help your students remember
the expressions they have
already studied that are used to
express opinions for and against
a topic, so that everything
becomes clearer for them.
• If you have time available, you
can go back to play one or two
tracks and check what kinds of
expressions are used to defend
or to argue an issue.
• It is important for you to provide your students with different options as to what phrases they might use in
the actual discussion.
Activity 21
• Monitor that your students are being honest with themselves. In order to foster honesty, it is essential to
have an environment in which your students can give their best in every activity. Help them develop their
confidence so they recognize that they should focus on their strengths as a way to improve and to work on
their weaknesses. It is important for them to identify what they lack today so they can work on it and get it
tomorrow. Not knowing something is not a permanent state.
• If possible, this assessment could become a team assessment.
• It is important to give your students enough time to offer suggestions and tips for improving not only
others’ performance, but also the strategies they follow for self-improvement.

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