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Hello everyone. We're going to start working on mediation. You know this is

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one of the activities of language that you have to take in your exam, in your

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certificate exam, and this is the first time you do it because in A2 you didn't

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mediation. You've got to do a written mediation and an oral mediation. Today

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we're going to start with the written mediation and to be practical and to get

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to the point, the first thing I want you to look is the criteria we use to assess

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your mediation you may see that you have this one about the content that means

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that you do what the task says you have to do and that you identify the most

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important information and you know who you are addressing your text to that is

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The text that you are reading and the information that you're going to give to the person that you're writing to.

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And that you're able to select the important information.

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That is, there may be information that you have to discard, that you have to reject, that you don't need.

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Another thing is your strategies.

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and there you have you have the social cultural context and you will see what

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that means in a minute again it's important to adapt the text to the

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person that you are addressing and that's why it says your information must

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be useful to the person that you're writing and you have a strategies of

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communication of writing or speaking to express what you want to express without

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even translating things and you do that by comparing by saying the opposite of

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what you mean that is if you don't know a word or if you for example are talking

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about driving and the person you're speaking to is Irish you say look in

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Ireland you take the exam before the written part for example while in Spain

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you have to take the written exam first and then the second okay as in all the

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text that you produce in the escuela your information must be structured you

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must have paragraphs or and it must be complete okay the right register if

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you're speaking to your friends or if you're speaking to a person that you

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don't know if that depends on the language you use and finally the last

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one here is correction that your grammar is right that your vocabulary is right

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that there are no taboo mistakes okay so these are the criteria the content the

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strategies of communication and the strategies they say the transmission but

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various strategies anyway so this is an example of a mediation this is one of

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the exams people took last year and look this is the task this is the first thing

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that you have to write you've got to write an email to your British friend

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okay that's the number of words and look it says in the task include any social

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cultural aspects about Spain or Spanish people that you may think oh that you

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think he may need to know okay so that goes with this context or sociocultural

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okay so this is the situation all right that's very important you have to

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understand the text this text over here but the situation is even more important

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your friend Thomas who studies Spanish in Madrid has recently adopted a chihuahua

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that has a microchip implant and the proper medical records, okay?

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Thomas is planning to travel around Spain

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and he's a frequent user of the underground.

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Now that he has a dog, his situation has changed

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and he's not sure about what he can do.

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He has asked you to explain to him the most relevant information

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in the text below because Spanish is not good, okay?

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so now I would like you to stop the video and read the text you have the handouts in the previous

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task okay now that you have read the text let's see the information that you need to write to

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your friends according to the information that you already have on your friends okay so important

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Thomas has adopted a dog and his dog has already a microchip implant and he has

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proper medical records. Okay? Now, when you read this, you have to think. Thomas' dog,

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Thomas' dog must be registered. Okay, so you will have to tell Thomas that he has to register his

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dog. This information here you may mention but you may not focus on it because Thomas, his dog,

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has already a microchip right but you may include that it's important to know

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where the microchip is implanted just in case he has to tell a policeman or a

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policewoman when traveling with his dog okay so this you have to tell him and

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this is the information that it's completely new and that you have to be

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reliable when you give this information to Thomas you cannot make it up okay

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right so what about the cultural context about the social cultural aspects you

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may you may include something like all Spaniards love their dogs and they give

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them funny names like whatever or be careful because there is a new law in

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Spain that is very strict on how we treat our animals and if you have not

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use the leash the leash la correa um you may be fined okay so your

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task will be look this is the exam that you're given you see

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um they give you the layout okay and of course you have to write down the number of words down here

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so your task for next online session online session or face-to-face session

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you have to give me to give it to me in class if you want is to write this

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written mediation okay you have to use 100 to 20 150 words you have to address

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your friend from blah blah blah subject dog hello Thomas and now let's check

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look you follow the task the right information and the information that you

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really need so there must be some there may be some information that you have to

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skip as we have seen the social cultural context the use useful information they

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have all the information about the Metro the times that you can take your dog

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with how you have to take him or yet make sure you have nice recent

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paragraphs and the register Thomas is your friends so it can be informal and

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finally check that everything is written correctly. Okay, so I'm going to add a

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task and give you the handout so you can write in there. Okay, it's important to

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know that for this you've got 40 minutes okay 40 minutes all right so thank you

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very much and you may start working on your mediation