Planeacion

Determine purpose and intended audience. Identify function of graphic components. Predict topic from previous knowledge. Clarify meaning of words.

Identify main ideas in agreements or disagreements with a personal stance.

Establish connections between a personal stance

and information in agreement and disagreement. Topic, purpose, and intended audience. Textual and graphic components.

List of suitable words What topics are you interested in?

Do you agree/disagree? What do you mean by

that?

What you are saying is…

I don't agree with you. I completely agree. Audience

Previous knowledge

Personal

Stance Agreement Disagreement Have Ss select a topic for a debate or present two topics so Ss can choose (animal rights,

the environment, etc.) Have Ss investigate their topic; have them identify

main ideas.

DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPMENT

Identify expressions used to express opinions in agreement and/or disagreement.

Establish connections between a personal stance and information in agreement or disagreement with it.

Identify expressions used to express opinions

in agreement and/or disagreement about a topic. Identify relationships between parts of a text.

Use strategies to point out information in agreement and/or disagreement with personal stance .

Search for information from various sources.

Select information to write agreeing and disagreeing arguments.

Organize information in agreement or disagreement with a personal stance in a graph.

Write sentences to express agreeing and/or disagreeing arguments.

Paraphrase or select information to broaden, exemplify, and explain sentences that express agreements and disagreements.

Emphasize or clarify agreements and disagreements. Use words and punctuation marks to link sentences together in paragraphs.

Write a short text that expresses agreements and/or disagreements.

Write a final version. List of suitable words

Synonyms

Verb form: passive

Connectors

Possessive genitive: (eg: World's diversity and human's features)

Pronouns: personal and reflexive Contrast between British and American variants: regular and irregular verbs (e.g. burned, burnt, spelled, spelt)

Word endings

Punctuation I think…

My opinion is…

What you are saying is…

I don't agree with you I completely agree. That is so true.

That is so unreal. That is not relevant. It is very relevant.

I think we should look for more information in

the media/Internet/books. Now that we have all the information we can organize it.

Maybe we can paraphrase it this way.

Let's write the final version. Opinion Agree Disagree Unreal Real

Information Organize Express Stance Search Various Sources Graphs Broaden Paraphrase Select Exemplify Emphasize Clarify Paragraphs Punctuation Doubts Feedback Moderator Presentation Constructive

Criticism Have Ss identify their personal point of view on the topic ( ex.: I believe animals have rights like, the right to a home, to be cared for, to be loved, not to be used for testing. / I think human beings have the

right to use animals as they see fit, animals don't have feelings, and can be used for various testing like, testing for medicines, cosmetics, etc).

Have Ss look to broaden

their ideas by investigating in various sources.

Have them write sentences to express their ideas in agreement or disagreement. Exemplify their ideas, using statistics percentages, etc.

Organize the sentences into paragraphs in order to write a final version.

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