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to control comprehension about what each of the narrators said. Monitor while teams work to offer help when required. Check by asking volunteers to write their answers on the board. Differentiated Instruction For this activity you could use the Open-ended Statement Strategy if you consider that your students need help to paraphrase the key ideas. You may say the first half of the sentences provided as possible answers in this guide and encourage your students to complete them with information from the narration. 2. Together, answer the questions about the narration you listened to in the previous activity. You could suggest students to continue working in teams to answer basic questions about the narration of the event they listened to in the previous activity. Ask volunteers to read the questions aloud to ensure comprehension and give them some time to answer them. Check orally. 3. Write a list of other Olympic sports you know. To broaden students’ vocabulary concerning sports, you could tell teams that they have five minutes to write a list of Olympic sports. Encourage them to use a dictionary to find the names in English. After that time, invite teams to read their lists aloud and praise the team with the longest list. Finally, ask the question in the Time to Shine! box and encourage students to describe the most popular sport in their community.
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1 Listen, read, and paraphrase key ideas with your team.
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—Hello, everyone! How are you all? You’re watching the Gymnastics Championships directly from the Olympic Arena. It’s almost six o’clock and we’re just about set for competition. There are eight competitors here for the uneven bars. Could Nina Thompson win a medal for our country? What do you think, Lisa? —Oh, absolutely, Tom! I think she’s here for the gold; let’s
see her routine, she’s starting right now. She begins with a tricky combination; she ies from high bar to low bar. Gorgeous work! Now, this handstand is particularly di cult; watch this release, nicely done! And now she nishes with a full twisting double, I’m so nervous… Oh, no! She fell! That’s a shame! Tom… Lisa…
2 Together,answer the questions about the narration you listened to in the previous activity.
a Where is the event taking place? b When is it scheduled to start? c How many competitors are there? d What apparatus are they using? e Who is competing rst?
3 Write a list of other Olympic sports you know.
• What does the most popular sport in your community consists of? Time to Shine!
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Achievement
Understand general information and details of narrations of a sports event.
Teaching Guidelines
• Paraphrase key ideas to control comprehension. • Answer basic questions about an event.
Development Which aspects should you consider when narrating a sports event? Ask the question aloud and invite students to share their ideas. 1. Listen, read, and paraphrase key ideas with your team. 33 110 You may draw students’ attention to the Glossary words in this activity and invite them to go to page 110 to read their definitions. Then, draw their attention to the picture and have them describe it; encourage them to share their preferences concerning this sport (gymnastics) Then, organize the class into small teams and play Track 33 for them to follow the reading. Next, elicit from students what is paraphrasing (to use their own words to explain something they read or listened to) and explain that they should paraphrase key ideas
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