Unit 16

WORKSHEET – UNIT 16

Task 1 – State the advantages and disadvantages of authentic and created materials. Which kind of materials would you favor for a class of intermediate students? Why?

Authentic:

Pros: use real language, gives the student a clear picture of how the English language is used on a daily basis. Endless supply of material for all levels of English.

Cons: material is not classified according to the students English level.  There is to much vocabulary. The most elemental material may be boring to students.

Creative:

Pros: designed and picked carefully by the teacher for the class. Has the appropriate vocabulary level. The teacher can use interesting subjects and adapt them with simpler vocabulary so the lower level students find it interesting.

Cons: limited supply.

Task 2 – What do you consider to be the advantages and disadvantages of using course books with a class?

Course books:

Pros: well thought and carefully selected lesson plan. Easy to grade the students. Provides plenty of material. Offers a clear path towards progress.

Cons: Predictive, boring. Some units might not be as well thought as others. Can make teacher lazy.

Task 3 – How can the teacher use the course book to maximum effect?

• Use the book as a guide, the book is based on years of accumulated knowledge by many experience teachers so it provides a good path towards progress.
• Complement the material in the book with fun and creative activities developed by you.
• Complement the book itself with additional issues you find pertinent for the subject.
• Don’t take it so seriously.
• Use it as a syllabus for the course but add or remove what you don’t consider pertinent. Use it as a guide not a script.

Task 4 – Find an authentic reading text of your choice online appropriate for an upper-intermediate class, and devise a full ESA lesson plan that revolves around the text. As always, include your aims, context, learner objectives, etc, as well as the procedure.

Include all exercises and worksheets when submitting your lesson plan.

Date - time	June 27, 2009
Teacher:	Marcos Blass	Room:	212
Number of students	16	Level	Intermediate
Teaching aids	Short story – The princess and the pea.
Objectives	Read the story by themselves, Identify new vocabulary and word tenses. Write a brief summary with the main idea.  Class discussion
Personal Aims	Encourage students to verbally participate in class. Full understanding of the story. Learn new vocabulary.
Anticipated Problems (students)	Lack of interest, lack of participation. Lack of understanding of the story.	Solutions	Use as many aids as possible. Make the students feel confident.
Anticipated Problems (teacher)	Lack of interest, lack of participation.	Solutions	Use as many aids as possible. Make the students feel confident
Procedure			Phase	Timing	Interaction
Start conversation by greeting the class and discussing their activities the day before.			Engage	5 min	T  - S
Give a short briefing on the importance of reading comprehension of English in the real word for person and how practicing is the only way to learn the skill.			Engage	2 min	T
Give each student a copy of the story and explain the activity until all students fully comprehend			Engage	3 min	T
Students read the story by themselves.			Study	5 min	T - S
Students read the story again and pick any vocabulary words they don’t know.			Study	3 min	T - S
Students identify any verb tenses they don’t know.			Study	2 min	T
Students write a brief summary of the main idea of the text.			Study	5 min	S
Students practice orally			Engage	5 min	S
The story is read out loud in class by the teacher, it meaning is explained and questions are answered.			Engage	10 min	T  - S
A game is played giving the student “clues” about sentences in the text they have to find.			Activate	5 min	T - S

Hans Christian Andersen

The Princess and the Pea

Once upon a time there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess; but she would have to be a real princess. He travelled all over the world to find one, but nowhere could he get what he wanted. There were princesses enough, but it was difficult to find out whether they were real ones. There was always something about them that was not as it should be. So he came home again and was sad, for he would have liked very much to have a real princess.
     One evening a terrible storm came on; there was thunder and lightning, and the rain poured down in torrents. Suddenly a knocking was heard at the city gate, and the old king went to open it.
     It was a princess standing out there in front of the gate. But, good gracious! what a sight the rain and the wind had made her look. The water ran down from her hair and clothes; it ran down into the toes of her shoes and out again at the heels. And yet she said that she was a real princess.
     Well, we'll soon find that out, thought the old queen. But she said nothing, went into the bed-room, took all the bedding off the bedstead, and laid a pea on the bottom; then she took twenty mattresses and laid them on the pea, and then twenty eider-down beds on top of the mattresses.
     On this the princess had to lie all night. In the morning she was asked how she had slept.
     "Oh, very badly!" said she. "I have scarcely closed my eyes all night. Heaven only knows what was in the bed, but I was lying on something hard, so that I am black and blue all over my body. It's horrible!"
     Now they knew that she was a real princess because she had felt the pea right through the twenty mattresses and the twenty eider-down beds.
     Nobody but a real princess could be as sensitive as that.
     So the prince took her for his wife, for now he knew that he had a real princess; and the pea was put in the museum, where it may still be seen, if no one has stolen it.
     There, that is a true story.

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