Appendix C | Estrategias para estudiantes
Estrategias para estudiantes Strategies for AP®-like Tasks in EntreCulturas 4 The multiple-choice tasks will assess your reading, listening, or viewing skills when accessing print, audio, or audio visual material.
• Listen for keywords in audio/audiovisual text and take notes in a graphic organizer provided or create your own.
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Interpretive Reading, Listening, or Viewing (Multiple-choice)
• Focus on the main idea of the passages rather than concentrating on minor details.
• Connect the information from these sources with whatever you have learned in class about the topic. This will help you to be more confident about comprehension of the sources.
Audio/Audiovisual Texts - consist of a variety of authentic audio and audiovisual materials, including interviews, podcasts, public service announcements, conversations, and brief presentations.
Interpersonal Writing (Email)
Task - You will be asked to:
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Print Texts - consist of a variety of authentic print materials such as magazine or news articles, literature, announcements, advertisements, infographics, letters, charts, maps, and tables.
• Identify the main ideas and supporting details.
Task - You will be asked to:
• Offer information that is requested by the writer of the email.
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• Determine the meaning of vocabulary words in context.
This task assesses your ability to read an email, or other written correspondence, and to write a response.
• Identify the author’s point of view or the target audience.
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• Demonstrate knowledge of the cultural or interdisciplinary information contained in the text.
• Request additional information that is directly related to the topic of the message. Strategies - As you complete the task: • Scan the email for general meaning and then reread with more care.
Strategies - As you interact with the print, audio, or audiovisual text:
• Circle or highlight the main idea and supporting details.
• Note the task and what information the multiple-choice items are targeting.
• Underline the author’s questions to address in your response.
• Preview print text features (e.g., headlines, illustrations, captions, fonts) or visual content of videos.
• Embed your questions in the text of your email or list them as bulleted items.
• Scan print text for general meaning and then reread with more care. • Annotate print text (e.g., circle, underline, highlight, insert symbols). 364
• Choose the correct register to use in your response (tú or Ud.) and be consistent. • Proofread your message to correct errors in grammar and syntax as well as spelling, accents, and punctuation.