6. Share your opinions from Activity 4. Use the expressions in the chart on page 40 to help you talk about them with your group. Write down the other students’ opinions. In this activity, students will monitor the use of expressions to start and end conversations, as well as ask for clarification and exchange expressions about the content of news. Put students in new groups. Ask them to share their opinions from the previous activity with their new group and write down four different opinions. Elicit examples. Put students in groups. Ask students to discuss the question: Do you think problems should be in the news? Monitor and then elicit some ideas from the different groups. Product: Questionnaire In this lesson, students will write four opinions about the news in this lesson. Organize the class into groups and allow them to share the opinions they have written and choose four to record. Monitor while they work to check progress. This activity will be your third evidence in this unit; ask students to file it following the procedure of your preference. Self-evaluation You could read the statements in the box together to make sure everybody understands what they need to self-evaluate. If necessary, go back to some of the previous activities so that students understands what each statement refers to. Read the tip provided and make sure to offer individual support to those students who detected areas of opportunity.
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a Being the host of the FIFA World Cup will create many jobs in Mexico. b Being the host of the FIFA World Cup will get more tourists to come to Mexico in the future.
c The FIFA World Cup will cause more pollution in Mexico. d The FIFA World Cup will cost Mexico too much money.
6 Share your opinions from Activity 4. Use the expressions in the chart on page 40 to help you talk about them with your group.Write down the other students’ opinions.
Reader Do you think the news should talk about problems and bad things that happen? (pp. 47-48)
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Questionnaire
• Write down four opinions about the news in this lesson. • Copy each opinion on a strip of paper. Self-evaluation (Check the box.) I can say what I understood in the audio news in this lesson. Tip: If you are not sure, go to Activity 2.
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Achievement Exchange opinions about the news. Teaching Guidelines • Decide what they want to say. • Reflect on what they need to know to express opinions. • Exchange expressions about the content of news. • Ask for clarification. Development 5. Tell your group if you agree or disagree with each sentence. Give reasons for your answer. 107 In order for students to exchange opinions about the content of news, ask them if they remember any of the phrases from the chart. Do a different example with the whole class; e.g.: Cats are better than dogs. Elicit answers. Tell students that to disagree, they can modify phrases from the chart; e.g.: That is terrible news. That’s awful. Nope. That’s not true. Then ask students to do the same for the statements in this activity. Differentiated Instruction For this activity you can use the Individual Response Card strategy to get everyone’s input. You can then read out students’ ideas to the whole class.
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