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Hello everyone. We're going to start working on mediation. You know this is 00:00:00

one of the activities of language that you have to take in your exam, in your 00:00:06

certificate exam, and this is the first time you do it because in A2 you didn't 00:00:14

mediation. You've got to do a written mediation and an oral mediation. Today 00:00:21

we're going to start with the written mediation and to be practical and to get 00:00:30

to the point, the first thing I want you to look is the criteria we use to assess 00:00:37

your mediation you may see that you have this one about the content that means 00:00:47

that you do what the task says you have to do and that you identify the most 00:00:56

important information and you know who you are addressing your text to that is 00:01:04

The text that you are reading and the information that you're going to give to the person that you're writing to. 00:01:15

And that you're able to select the important information. 00:01:25

That is, there may be information that you have to discard, that you have to reject, that you don't need. 00:01:29

Another thing is your strategies. 00:01:38

and there you have you have the social cultural context and you will see what 00:01:43

that means in a minute again it's important to adapt the text to the 00:01:50

person that you are addressing and that's why it says your information must 00:01:59

be useful to the person that you're writing and you have a strategies of 00:02:05

communication of writing or speaking to express what you want to express without 00:02:12

even translating things and you do that by comparing by saying the opposite of 00:02:22

what you mean that is if you don't know a word or if you for example are talking 00:02:31

about driving and the person you're speaking to is Irish you say look in 00:02:38

Ireland you take the exam before the written part for example while in Spain 00:02:45

you have to take the written exam first and then the second okay as in all the 00:02:53

text that you produce in the escuela your information must be structured you 00:03:02

must have paragraphs or and it must be complete okay the right register if 00:03:08

you're speaking to your friends or if you're speaking to a person that you 00:03:17

don't know if that depends on the language you use and finally the last 00:03:21

one here is correction that your grammar is right that your vocabulary is right 00:03:27

that there are no taboo mistakes okay so these are the criteria the content the 00:03:36

strategies of communication and the strategies they say the transmission but 00:03:45

various strategies anyway so this is an example of a mediation this is one of 00:03:53

the exams people took last year and look this is the task this is the first thing 00:04:01

that you have to write you've got to write an email to your British friend 00:04:09

okay that's the number of words and look it says in the task include any social 00:04:15

cultural aspects about Spain or Spanish people that you may think oh that you 00:04:23

think he may need to know okay so that goes with this context or sociocultural 00:04:29

okay so this is the situation all right that's very important you have to 00:04:38

understand the text this text over here but the situation is even more important 00:04:47

your friend Thomas who studies Spanish in Madrid has recently adopted a chihuahua 00:04:55

that has a microchip implant and the proper medical records, okay? 00:05:01

Thomas is planning to travel around Spain 00:05:08

and he's a frequent user of the underground. 00:05:10

Now that he has a dog, his situation has changed 00:05:14

and he's not sure about what he can do. 00:05:17

He has asked you to explain to him the most relevant information 00:05:21

in the text below because Spanish is not good, okay? 00:05:25

so now I would like you to stop the video and read the text you have the handouts in the previous 00:05:30

task okay now that you have read the text let's see the information that you need to write to 00:05:40

your friends according to the information that you already have on your friends okay so important 00:05:51

Thomas has adopted a dog and his dog has already a microchip implant and he has 00:06:01

proper medical records. Okay? Now, when you read this, you have to think. Thomas' dog, 00:06:11

Thomas' dog must be registered. Okay, so you will have to tell Thomas that he has to register his 00:06:24

dog. This information here you may mention but you may not focus on it because Thomas, his dog, 00:06:35

has already a microchip right but you may include that it's important to know 00:06:48

where the microchip is implanted just in case he has to tell a policeman or a 00:06:57

policewoman when traveling with his dog okay so this you have to tell him and 00:07:05

this is the information that it's completely new and that you have to be 00:07:22

reliable when you give this information to Thomas you cannot make it up okay 00:07:29

right so what about the cultural context about the social cultural aspects you 00:07:38

may you may include something like all Spaniards love their dogs and they give 00:07:49

them funny names like whatever or be careful because there is a new law in 00:07:56

Spain that is very strict on how we treat our animals and if you have not 00:08:03

use the leash the leash la correa um you may be fined okay so your 00:08:15

task will be look this is the exam that you're given you see 00:08:28

um they give you the layout okay and of course you have to write down the number of words down here 00:08:34

so your task for next online session online session or face-to-face session 00:08:42

you have to give me to give it to me in class if you want is to write this 00:08:52

written mediation okay you have to use 100 to 20 150 words you have to address 00:09:01

your friend from blah blah blah subject dog hello Thomas and now let's check 00:09:10

look you follow the task the right information and the information that you 00:09:19

really need so there must be some there may be some information that you have to 00:09:30

skip as we have seen the social cultural context the use useful information they 00:09:35

have all the information about the Metro the times that you can take your dog 00:09:45

with how you have to take him or yet make sure you have nice recent 00:09:51

paragraphs and the register Thomas is your friends so it can be informal and 00:09:58

finally check that everything is written correctly. Okay, so I'm going to add a 00:10:05

task and give you the handout so you can write in there. Okay, it's important to 00:10:12

know that for this you've got 40 minutes okay 40 minutes all right so thank you 00:10:24

very much and you may start working on your mediation 00:10:36

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