Unit 9

WORKSHEET – UNIT 9


Task 1 – What are the two receptive skills?

Reading and listening


Task 2 – Give a brief description of the different specialist skills needed for reading and listening successfully:

Predictive skills: Predicting the meaning of a phrase in a way that an unexperienced speaker of the language would not comprehend.

Specific information – scanning: Reading text but only concentrating on the parts of interest.

General idea – skimming: Quickly reading a segment of text in order to get the vague idea of what it is about.

Detailed information: A specialist skill used to get all of the information which is given, used most often for structured tasks such as directions and instructions.

Deducted from context: Understanding the meaning of a word by taking in the sentence which has put it forward.





















Task 3 – Plan a straight arrow ESA lesson for the reading text of the materials that you should have received:

Engage:
Class begins by reading the text 'What people wear' to the students and then demonstrating some of the comparisons. We would run through some of the changes of grammar between different types of comparisons such as more than, less than, as as and -er and in which situations they are suitable.

Study:
The study stage would involve completing all of the exercises provided for the students using the 'What people wear' text as a guide. The exercises include completing, correcting, changing and creating sentences.

Activate:
First of all we would correct the exercises as a class on the white/blackboard asking the students in a random order for the answers to the questions. Following this we would organise an activity where students pair up and compare each other with sentences (i.e 'My jumper is darker than yours') then finally the comparisons would be made in front of the class.

Overall this is how the lesson plan would be structured :
1.Read text 'What people wear' to the class
2.Demonstrate some comparisons
3.Provide examples of different grammar used for comparison.
4.Students study 'What people wear' text
5.Students answer exercise questions using the text as a guide
6.Teacher completes exercises with the class giving answers
7.Organise activity where students compare themselves or objects to each other
8.Students perform their comparisons in front of the class

Task 4 – What are some of the problems that students may encounter with the lesson you planned in task 3?

Students may not be at a sufficient skill level to understand their story correctly or express their opinions of the story. Shy students will not enjoy the class as much as others who are more outspoken.


Task 5 – Why is the choice of topic so important? How can the teacher generate interest in the topic?

The choice of topic is important because gaining interest will help the students learn as they will be more motivated, paying more attention and taking everything in. It would be hard to find a topic to please everyone but surely some would be far more suitable than others.

Task 6 – What does the teacher need to consider when selecting a text or dialogue?

Students age, social status, attitudes are a few which we can think of. The teacher should always select material which will motivate the students and topics which the students can relate too.