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Activity 12
• Replay the first part of the track
Activity 12
• This activity is provided so
that you can explain reading
strategies, let your students
take their time to think about
the way they read. If possible, it
is a good idea for them to take
mental notes (instead of writing
them down).

• If you have time, you could
choose to re-read the poems
from Activity 6 to consolidate
this skill.

• Whenever possible, give your
students the chance to read any
text at least twice. The first time
is for general skimming and
scanning and the second is for
understanding the details.
Activity 13
• Help your students express
their ideas, especially if they are
having difficulty with specific
metalanguage.
• Remind your students to retrieve
the mental notes they made
when reading so as to express
their feelings. Those mental
notes are useful when trying

to interact with others, in real life they won’t be able to write down what they want to talk about (except, for
example, in a prepared intervention: a presentation, a complaint call, etc.).

Activity 14
• Poetic meter is based on rhythm (the succession of stressed and unstressed syllables). While there are many
treatises, it is not necessary to use specialized vocabulary for each type of stress.

• Modern poetry may not be completely based on the pattern of stressed-unstressed syllables, so it is better,
for this activity, to use older poems.

• Most poems in English use what is called iambic pentameter, which is a sequence of unstressed-stressed
syllables repeated five times in each verse.

Translate icon / Additional definitions:
- lullaby (n.): canción de cuna (arrullo)

- convey (v.): transmitir (comunicar, expresar, transportar)

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