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2. What do you know about the Mayan culture?
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Ask students to work in pairs. Allow them to brainstorm what they know about the Mayan culture. At this point it is fine if they do not use English all the time, but try to monitor and provide the language input they need to use more English. Write new words and structures on the board and ask questions to make sure that students have understood their meanings. Differentiated Instruction For this activity you can use the Bubble Map strategy to ask students to organize what they already know. 3. Which of the following books or other texts would be good to find information about the Mayans? Ask students to first read the titles individually and tick the ones they think will be useful. Then ask students to compare their answers. Then ask volunteers to read the names of the titles and say whether they thought it would be useful or not. Discuss why the unchosen books will not be useful for research, focusing on fiction, books with a different purpose, and books that just talk about personal experience and opinions. 4. Read the questions. Which of the books or texts in Activity 3 could you use to answer each question? Write a number next to each question. Tell students they are going to decide which books can answer which questions. Tell students they can write more than one number next to each question. Allow students to work in pairs. When pairs have finished, ask them to work with another pair and compare their answers. Repeat the procedure used in the previous activity, asking a different student to read each question and say which numbers their group wrote. Write the answers on the board. 5. Choose one of the questions. Work together to find the information in an encyclopedia. Allow students to work in the same pairs. If possible, bring in a few encyclopedias from the library, or allow students to search in an online encyclopedia. This is a good time to talk to students about the different quality of information available on the Internet. You could ask students what a wiki is, and who can edit it. Ask them why it’s not always reliable (because there is no organization that edits and check the information, anyone can post and edit).
1 What do you expect to learn about in the Anthropology Museum?
2 What do you know about the Mayan culture?
3 Which of the following books or other texts would be good to find information about the Mayans?
1 Map of pyramids and societies 2 Book: Did the Mayans go to the Moon? 3 Encyclopedia 4 Mayan games, myths, and legends for kids
5 Road map of Mexico 6 Mexico travel guide 7 Mexican History book 8 Mayan culture and traditions 9 Book: My Favorite Holiday
4 Read the questions.Which of the books or texts in Activity 3 could you use to answer each question? Write a number next to each question.
a Where did the Mayans live before the Spanish came? b How did they live? c What did they believe? d What games did they play? e What language did they speak?
5 Choose one of the questions. Discuss the sources where you can find information and find it.
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Achievements • Look for information about a topic in different texts. • Analyze informative texts. Teaching Guidelines • Choose appropriate reference sources from a list. • Explore important printed resources to answer questions that guide information searches. Development Have you searched for information this week? Ask students: Have you searched for information this week? You could provide a simple example of your own of something relevant to students; e.g.: How to make your English class more fun . Allow volunteers to share what they searched for. 1. What do you expect to learn about in the Anthropology Museum? Ask students if they have been to an anthropology museum. If possible, show them photos of the anthropology museum nearest to the school. Allow students who have visited such a museum to share their experiences with others.
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