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each team to walk (or run!) to read .

the text and make any corrections
the text on the wall. They memorise
some of the text (three or four next part of the
words), return to their partner and
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lesson; for example, questions abou
dictate what they remember. Their the text, a discussion.
partner writes the text.

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