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THEME 7 FOOD AND FESTIVALS

FUNCTIONS
F1 Talking about national and international festivals
10 GRADE F2 Describing actions and processes
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5 Dictogloss

The activity aims to have students listen attentively to the teacher and note down keywords for use in
describing actions and processes.

Materials and Preparation
The text about organizing a food festival on page 174
As a preparation, the teacher photocopies the text as many as the number of groups.

Procedure
1 Put students into groups of four or five, depending on the size of the class.
2 Tell students that you will be reading a text about organizing a food festival and meanwhile, they will
try to note down, individually, as many keywords as possible.
3 Remind students that they should avoid noting down full sentences.
4 Once you have finished reading the text aloud and students have taken notes, read aloud the same
text again, making sure that students continue noting down the keywords once more.
5 After the second reading, ask students to bring together their notes and discuss to reconstruct the text.
Emphasize students that they should try to rewrite the text as similar as possible to the original one.
6 As a second step, hand out the copies of the original text to the groups and ask them to compare
their work with the original one.
7 Finally, discuss students’ texts in terms of similarities and differences.

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