Unit 1

WORKSHEET – UNIT 1

Task 1 – List 5 qualities that a ‘good’ teacher should have and give reasons for your choices. Which of these qualities do you consider to be more important, and why?
Kindness and patience: I good teacher must always be willing to help his/hers student as well as colleagues. He must always remain calm, and have the patience to help those students who fall behind or start late.
Entertaining/involving: a good teacher must always be entertaining in order to maintain his students focused. Part of making a class entertaining for the students is getting them involved in the learning process.
Know his students weaknesses: I good teacher has to quickly identify his student’s weaknesses so he can attack them early and not let the student fall behind.
Involve all students: some students will always move ahead of other in different subjects. The teacher has to make sure that all students participate in the development of every subject so they fall behind.
Be polite: students can get frustrated or obnoxious sometimes so the teacher has to be very polite in correcting the student’s behavior or in correcting them without offending them


Task 2 – State what you consider to be the five most important roles of a teacher. Describe each role and say why you think it is important.
Manager: The teacher has to be in control in his always, a loss in control will imply in loss in attention or even worse a loss in credibility.
Organizer: the teacher always has to clear goals and objectives for his class and he has to organize himself and his students in the best way he sees fit in order to get there.
Participant: the teacher has to be an integral part of the learning process, sometimes this implies changing roles and participating in his own class as would a student.
Tutor: some student can and will need extra help in some subjects and the teacher has to be there for some 1 on 1 lesson to help them catch up with the rest of the class.
Resource: the teacher has to be always on the look for new and creative teaching ideas and methods as well as coming up with his own.


Task 3 – List 5 qualities you would expect to find in a ‘good’ learner. Which of these qualities do you consider to be more important, and why?
Desire to learn: this always has to be the first step in the process of learning any subject.
Listening: the learning process always starts with listening; being a good listener and concentrating are key factors for learning any subject successfully.
Asking questions: student cant be afraid of asking questions, asking questions is the only way to solve any doubts the student has or correcting any miss interpreted concepts.
Accepting mistakes: a good learner ahs to accept his mistakes is just as basic as listening.
Experimenting: willing to go that extra mile and experimenting show motivation and desire to learn.

Task 4 – What are some of the major differences you would expect to find between adult and young learners?
Nervousness: adults are usually more nervous that younger people, they have a lot of anxiety about success.
Language awareness: adults tend to match the new language to their native tongue. Young learners absorb the new language more easily.
Behavior problems: Adults are usually more motivated and have longer attentions spans than kids.
Life Experience: adults have more experience they can bring to the classroom which make teaching more interesting.

Task 5 – List the levels of language ability that learners are often grouped into and give a brief summation of each level:
Beginner: zero to very basic knowledge.
Elementary: able to build sentences and communicate ideas.
Low/pre – intermediary: able to understand and communicate many topics but lack fluency.
Intermediate: able to communicate a wide array of topics using only limited vocabulary and lacking fluency and accuracy.
Upper intermediate: able to communicate almost all topics but lacking accuracy.
Advanced: ample knowledge of the language.


Task 6 – Give as many reasons as possible why students are motivated to study English. The reasons that you give do not have to be in the unit reading material.
Career prospects
General usefulness, it’s the language of science, finance and education.
Study or live abroad.