Driving Group Phases & Discussion Analysis

2 Driving Group and Its Phases

SE can be divided into 4 phases:

  • Presentation
  • Warming Up
  • Development
  • Closing

Throughout the process, the facilitator intervenes to regulate or drive the information and communication. The more the facilitator intervenes, the more directive and less spontaneous the intervention becomes.

Group Presentation

Teach participants the art of operation and the roles of both the moderator and participants. Steps:

  • Introduction of the moderator and the company or institution that requires
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Journalistic Subgenres: Informative, Opinion, and Hybrid Texts

Characteristics of Journalistic Subgenres

Informative Genres

Informative texts convey factual information of interest to the readers to whom they are addressed. Therefore, personal opinions and value judgments should be excluded.

Key Informative Subgenres

A) The News

News objectively presents current and interesting events. The reaction of a news story usually involves certain key aspects of an event: who did it, what happened, where it occurred, how it happened, and why. A news story can be divided

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Media and Journalistic Communication: Impact and Characteristics

Media: We Live in a Society of Raw Information

Technical advances and competition among media outlets are the cause that we are more informed than ever. The chosen model for the journalistic message, the sender, the channel with which it counts and has elements, as well as the receiver to whom it is directed, determine the characteristics, nature, and formal aspects of journalistic texts.

Media Information: The Most Important Transmitters

Radio, TV, and print journalism.

  • Radio: Uses auditory codes and
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Business Structures and Financial Planning for Entrepreneurs

**Business Structures**

**Sole Proprietorship**

  • Characteristics: An individual, a natural person, carries out a professional, industrial, or commercial activity in their own name, either directly or through a company.
  • Minimum Capital: Not required.
  • Requirements: National Identity Document (DNI). Voluntary registration in the commercial register.

**General Partnership**

  • Characteristics: The partnership operates in a personalist, collective manner, with unlimited and joint liability among partners.
  • Minimum
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Urban Life and Social Issues: Impact on Daily Living

Urban Development and Its Challenges

7 Key Factors Affecting City Dwellers

  • Air pollution
  • Local residents
  • Parking space
  • Public transport
  • Quality of life
  • Traffic congestion
  • Urban development

TV Series Vocabulary:

  • Captured
  • Released
  • Editor
  • Broadcast
  • Presenter
  • Episode

Housing Types

  • Cottage: Cabaña
  • Terraced: Adosadas
  • Passage: Callejón
  • Chimney
  • Semi-detached: Semi adosado
  • Terrace
  • Attic
  • Bungalow
  • Fence: Valla
  • Detached: Casa separada/independiente
  • Cellar/Basement: Sótano

Common English Verbs and Phrases

  • Cut (in filmmaking)
  • Promised
  • Suspected
  • Had
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Effective CLIL Assessment & Collaborative Practices

The Importance of Assessment in CLIL

It is well known that assessment exerts an important effect on teaching. It is fundamental to the success of CLIL and it is an indispensable part of instruction.

But assessment sometimes becomes a difficult task because teachers must decide what to assess: content, language, or both? What language do we assess? Which is more important? What about cognition and culture? What tools can we use for assessment? When, how…? Should intercultural competence be taken

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