WORKSHEET
– UNIT 11
Task 1 – What are the two
productive skills?
Speaking and writing
Task 2 – Give a brief
description of the differences between accuracy and fluency activities:
Accuracy is concentrated in
producing the correct language.
Fluency on the other hand
allows student to experiment and be creative with the language.
Task 3 – List 5 different
speaking activities, giving an example activity of your own for each:
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Drilling (Controlled activity): for a tough
vocabulary lesson with long words, have the class repeat after you the desired
words.
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Guided role play (Creative communication):
divide the class in pairs and have one student interview another student based
on a current subject and employing a subject learned in class.
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Free Role play (Creative communication): divide
the class in pairs and have one student interview another student based on any
subject he sees fit and employing a subject learned in class.
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Discussions (Creative communication): start the
dialogue describing a current event, have the student
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Debates (Creative communication): divide the
class in two groups; give a subject chosen randomly generally a hot issue with
many arguments on both sides. Have each group of students defend each side of
the argument.
Task 4 – Give examples of
ways that the teacher can encourage students to speak and interact during a
lesson:
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Prepare materials
in pair or groups.
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Talk about
current and interesting issues for the students.
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Play games.
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Drilling.
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Controlled and
guided activities.
Task 5 – List five ways, with
short explanations, that a teacher can generate interest in a topic. Come up
with ideas of your own:
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Talk about current and interesting issues for
the students, something in the news, gossip, anything to get their attention.
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Talk about subjects student consider important.
What does a student of a certain age find relevant and important?
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Find the way the student will link the lesson
with his regular speech. This is key, if the student doesn’t find the lesson
relevant you will loose his attentions.
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Prepare well the material and the lesson. Make
the lesson have a coherent path that keeps the student involved.
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Make the lesson interesting!! Play games, have
fun!!
Task 6 – Give an example of
an effective free-speaking activity and how it would fit into an ESA lesson
plan, with as much detail as possible:
Language level:
Intermediate
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ENGAGE
The teacher begins the class by
talking about a current subject, something interesting and of importance to the
students. Asks the students for their opinion in the matter. Each students
explains his/her idea and gives some supporting facts.
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Study
The teacher divides the class in
two groups depending on the side they take on the current issue. The students
go on for themselves and research more on the subject. Each group of students
coordinates an attack and a defense on the subject supported by the facts they
just found.
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Task 7 – What additional
issues does the teacher have to consider for a writing activity?
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Main purpose of the
activity and the goal he wants to achieve with it.
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Vocabulary used,
spelling of the main words, pronunciation.
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How the lesson
relates to a subject recently covered or how it serves as the basis for a
future subject.
Task 8 – Think of five traditional
games that could be adapted for the classroom and details of how you would use
them (these games should not include any of those mentioned in the course
unit):
- Hangman: Spelling game,
excellent for learning parts of speech.
- Simon says: the best game
for developing listening skills
- Scrabble: good for
expanding vocabulary, using all know words and learning parts of speech.
- Word soup: good for
expanding vocabulary, using all know words, should be complemented by having
the student identify the parts of speech.
- Truth or dare: develop the
game in and academicals way having the students either answer a funny question
or take on a challenge from the day’s class.
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