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SkimaTalk Official Course
Intermediate Writing –
Let’s improve persuasion & discussion skills.
Lesson 4: Excessive Dieting
- 2. Homework:
Write down your answer to the question and send it to your teacher BEFORE
the lesson. You should send the answer to your teacher using the SkimaTalk
Message feature (maximum 2,400 characters).
Preparation / Homework (Important!)
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This lesson requires students to complete the homework BEFORE the lesson.
Your friend has been on a diet, drinking only fruit juice for a
month. She lost weight but looks very unhealthy.
How would you convince her to go back to a normal diet?
Q
- 3. Lesson Guidelines
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Your session with your SkimaTalk instructor will be structured as follows:
Introduction / briefing
Student to read the homework
to the teacher
Feedback from the teacher
5
min
5
min
10
min
5
min
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Follow-up questions
- 4. Teacher Notes
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Please structure your lesson as follows:
1. After a brief introduction, ask the student to read his/her
homework assignment out loud. Note any grammar, vocabulary,
and pronunciation errors.
2. Spend 10 minutes helping the student proofread the document.
Focus on correcting grammar, sentence structure, and vocabulary.
3. In the final 5 minutes, ask the discussion questions on the
following page of this lesson.
4. After the session, please spend 15 minutes proofreading the
student’s homework assignment. Send the edited assignment to
the student using the SkimaTalk Message feature.
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- 5. Discussion Questions
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1. What is the most important thing to do to stay healthy? Why?
2. Do you prefer to eat out or eat in? Why?
3. Do you prefer going to the extreme or being mediocre?
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