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Activity 2 (continues)
• Remember to mention that
diction is unrealistic in TV
programs (which adds to the
difficulty of understanding
these kinds of texts). Actors are
following a script and scene
directors shoot or reshoot as
many times as necessary so
there are no gaps, hesitations or
actions they don’t want to show.

• Try to keep the list of TV
programs on a sensible path.
While it is impossible to oversee
every single student, put your
foot down for programs with
excessive violence or other
inappropriate content. While
nowadays that type of content
is tolerated more on TV than
it was, let’s say, some 20 or
30 years ago (for example,
swearwords spoken on public
TV were heavily fined), you
should strive to drive this
practice without resorting to
such programs.

• IT box icons appear frequently
in the practices with suggested
websites.
Use this opportunity to explain:

- What a browser is: the program that allows you to search for and view web pages
- What a hyperlink is: the connection between one place and another on the Web and can appear as a
word or an icon
• Activity 3

• As in other practices, remember the stages are rigidly defined, while the actual activities to complete
each stage are pretty flexible.

• Your students should be able to discern which activities they are already proficient in, while deciding
which activities can or should be expanded and revisited.

• Remember, you may devise more activities to work on a certain skill, if you feel the ones in the book are
not thorough enough. One strategy is to check activities from other practices and adapt them to
this practice.
• Remember, the activities are meant as a guideline; they are one of the many possible ways in which a
sequence to work with these contents can be created. Our purpose is to give you inspiration to make
decisions with your students, while they also play a more active role than merely filling in blank spaces.
Communication is not a matter of circling “correct” answers, or drawing lines to match columns, it’s
about actually reading, speaking, listening and writing with real social purposes that go beyond the
school walls.

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