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see, listen to, or read when we connect them with our previous knowledge or experiences. Also, you may encourage them to share examples of inferences they make in their daily lives following the example provided in the Appendix. Then, you may organize the class into small teams and, to activate previous knowledge, ask: What jobs and professions do you know? Invite students to share information about them. Have students identify the Glossary words in this activity and tell them to go to page 110 to read their definitions and give examples. Next, ask them to go back to page 86 and draw their attention to the pictures; invite volunteers to describe them and tell the class to make inferences about the images. Finally, to have them explore the illustrated text about jobs and professions, tell them to read the title, skim the text, and distinguish the relation between visual and written information. Have them predict what it is about. Differentiated Instruction For this activity, you could use the Gather Background Information Strategy before working on this lesson to check if any of your students’ parents or relatives is a professional athlete, doctor, or firefighter. If so, invite those students to share more information about any of those jobs. 2. Read the text. Discuss with your partner who it is written for and why. You may organize the class into pairs and give them some time to read the text. Invite them to circle unknown words to include them in the class glossary and, when they have finished reading, ask them to dictate those words to you; write them on the board and invite students to define them by taking the context into account. If not possible, encourage them to use a dictionary. Once you are sure they have understood the text, have them analyze its purpose and audience by asking: Who is this text written for? (children or teenagers). How do you know? (because of the title and phrases such as “…If you would like to become…”). What is its purpose? (to provide information about different jobs and professions).
What Do You Know About Jobs?
Social Practice of the Language To register information to elaborate a report about a job or profession Achievements • Gather information about jobs or professions. • Explore reports about activities. • Write information about jobs and professions to make a report. Product: Illustrated Report Academic and Educational Environment
1 With your team, look at the picture, and read the title and the first sentence of each paragraph.What is the text about? 110 119
What Would You Like to Be When You
tests, as well as take di erent courses such as an emergency medical technician course to be able to help the people they rescue. Physicians study how the human body works and help people be healthy. There are di erent types of physicians depending on their specialty, for example, pediatricians or cardiologists. There are also general practitioners who don’t specialize in a particular area of medicine. If you want to become a physician, you must consider that the path is very long. First, they require 4 or 5 years of medical school, and specialists study 3 to 8 more years of residency. Normally they work in hospitals or they may also have a private practice. How do I make inferences? For information about this theme, go to page 119. 119
Professional athletes are paid for practicing their favorite sports and competing. But it is not easy to become one; you must know that it takes a lot of work. Athletes must train several hours a day with teammates and trainers. Another thing you must consider is that those who become full-time athletes have short careers because of the physical demands this job implies. Due to this, many athletes very often become coaches later in their careers. Fireghters are considered real life heroes as they help people who are in danger. Their duties range from putting out res and rescuing people to ghting wild res or managing hazardous materials. If you would like to become a reghter, you must study and prepare yourself physically. Normally, they must pass a series of written and physical
2 Read the text. Discuss with your partner who it is written for and why.
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Achievement
Gather information about jobs or professions.
Teaching Guidelines
• Make inferences about images. • Explore illustrated texts about jobs and professions. • Analyze purpose and audience.
Development Why is it important to explore texts?
Ask: Why is it important to explore texts? and invite students to share their ideas based on previous experiences. Learning to Learn 119 Ask the question from the box and elicit students’ prior knowledge; encourage them to go to the Appendix if needed. 1. With your team, look at the picture, and read the title and the first sentence of each paragraph. What is the text about? 110 Before students start working on this task, you may explain that we can make inferences about things we
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