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to help Ontario students understand and respect cultural norms when completing community service or volunteer work in a country where the target language is spoken)
Teacher prompts: “What similarities and differences did you find between health care systems? Which similarities or differences surprise you?” “What is unique about this artefact? What is significant about it?”
D3.2 Awareness of Sociolinguistic Conventions: identify sociolinguistic conventions associated with a variety of social situations in diverse communities where the target language is spoken, and use them appropriately in their written work in the target language (e.g., create a comic strip that includes some idiomatic expres- sions specific to a country or region; use the appropriate level of formality in a letter requesting a job interview; write an e-mail to a friend using expressions from a specific region where the target language is spoken; write a description of a cultural food festival that incorporates words or expressions related to food and meals in different target-language communities)
Teacher prompt: “How might you distinguish between a letter to a friend and a letter to accompany your résumé? What are the differences in content or style, or both?”
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