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Activity 10 (continues)
• Play Track 4 and go through the
example with students.
• Ask them if they agree with
what is stated and to provide
more examples to support their
opinion. If they do not agree
with the example, they must
provide some relevant reasons.
• Play the other tracks and
allow some time for students
to complete the chart. Their
answers may vary, but they
should be along the lines of the
answers stated in the TB.

• Allow some time for students to
listen to the conversation they
selected and to determine if it
starts naturally or not.
Activity 11
• Ask students to scan the
transcript and elicit what the
rack 2 • Play the first part of the track
circled expressions are.

T and pause it where
the transcript in the SB ends.
• Discuss what opening
statements are with students.
Their answers may vary, but
they should respond that
opening statements help start a
conversation, and they state the topic that will be discussed. They always appear at the beginning, as the
name implies.
• Encourage them to use clues to find the opening statement and to determine if it appears twice. If that is
the case, as it is in the example provided, elicit why this happens. For example, in the conversation about
sleeping habits, the interlocutor mentions the opening statement twice, because the first time the others
focus on an article in the newspaper that talks about that particular topic.

Activity 12
• Elicit different ways of introducing opening statements in a conversation.
• Remind them to look for clues in the transcript from Activity 11 and the short dialogues in Activity 9.
• Write their answers on the board and check them with students. They should have options such as
mentioning a previous conversation, asking a question, bringing up a common topic, among others.
• Check their answers and ask them when each opening statement would be appropriate for a conversation.
For example, the first one might come in handy when talking to a classmate, since they both take English
and, therefore, both were reading about cultural habits. The second one would serve as a follow up to a
previous conversation that they have had before. The last one mentions the source where he first heard
of it, a radio program that was talking about this particular topic and the interlocutor finds it interesting
enough to share with others.

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