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Activity 2: Finding meaning


In this stage you will explore new vocabulary and learn some definition that are important to understand the text that you are going to read. Let’s check your knowledge on vocabulary.
Objective:
You will improve your vocabulary through inferences.
Pre-reading
Step 1: work with the same groups from the previous activity.
Step 2: Assign roles to each member of the group (check Group Roles)
Step 3: Brainstorm your ideas about the title “The eye of the beholder” using Padlet (see tutorial in the resources section), there you must write your ideas, any idea that you have about the title.
Step 4: The recorder must summarize your ideas in the forum.
Step 5: Now, check your vocabulary knowledge. Do the activity, "My dictionary", there you must write the definitions from these words:
bandage, turn away, scream, take off, surgery, tries, fit in, allow, kind, birth, ugliness, beholder, self, beauty, treason, concerned, mirror, conform, weaken, hurt, a little while, amazed, belonging, leave.
You can use these online dictionaries, the Cambridge online dictionary http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/dictionary?q=dictionary or Word reference http://www.wordreference.com/definition/ to find out the meaning of the words.
Step 6: Write the meaning of the words with your own words in this wall.
http://es.padlet.com/ypilifran09/enjoyreading
Step 7: Now, let's check the words that you remember. Click on this link https://es.educaplay.com/recursos-educativos/5259522-the_eye_of_the_beholder.html to go to the crossword game there, you will find some definitions which are missing the words. What you must do, is to read the definition and write the word in the crossword.
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