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Activity 9 Building stage
• Allow some time for students to
scan the conversations.
• Ask them what they are about
and if they are in the correct
order. Their answers may vary,
but they should be able to
respond that in all three cases
the interlocutors are talking
about different cultural habits
and that the conversations are
not in the correct order.

• Go through the example with
them and encourage students
to find the lines that begin each
conversation.

• Remind them to look for clues
such as the cultural habit being
discussed (wedding traditions,
breakfast, and types of houses),
a question that makes the other
person start talking, or the fact
that one of the interlocutors
brings up a previous
conversation.
• Encourage a few volunteers to
perform the dialogues in front
of the class and to improvise
a little.

Activity 10
• Elicit what makes a conversation sound natural. Their answers may vary, but they will probably answer with T
statements such as: “Someone will talk and someone else will listen. Then the roles will switch.”; “They
will all be talking about one main topic and will discuss different aspects of it.”; “Questions looking for rack 4-6
more information will be asked and others will ask who is explaining something or rephrasing what he or
she just said.”; “The questions will be responded to.”; “People will have an opinion about something and
they will have to provide facts to support it.”; “The interlocutors might agree with him or her, or they
might disagree.”

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