Toefl
- Submitted by: 99heyho
- Views: 117
- Category: English: Authors
- Date Submitted: 10/05/2015 08:16 AM
- Pages: 9
- Report this Essay
Amersham & Wycombe College
Skills Related Tasks [Assignment 3]
Submission date: 24/05/2013
Omar Hussain
Amersham & Wycombe College
Skills Related Tasks [Assignment 3]
Submission date: 24/05/2013
Omar Hussain
Skills Related Task
This is a news article titled, “Stop juggling, start ingle-tasking” from the Evening Standard newspaper. I have chosen to use this material to teach the upper-intermediate class. I think the ss will find the topic quite interesting as most of them are au-pairs and have to multitask at some time during their work. They may also be able to closely relate to it and also benefit from it. I have chosen it for the upper-intermediate set of students as I believe it would be a nice little challenge or them. There are no blocking words in this article although there are quite a few words which they can guess from the context. So overall I do not see this piece as too hard for them.
1) Lead in / prediction task:
As the aim of the lead in is to stimulate an interest in the topic, I would begin by displaying the main picture from the newspaper and getting the class to work in pairs, I would ask them to predict what the topic of the newspaper article would be. However because the picture could mean numerous things, I would give them the real title of the article (“Stop juggling, start single-tasking”) and two more titles (1- “First Chinese man to join circus” and 2- “The rise of unemployment”). This is a very student centred activity which creates interest in the content of the text and “activates schemata” [Harmer, p. 271]. I would not drag this on for too long, but just enough to raise interest in what the text may be. Once they have discussed this in their pairs, a class feedback would be done and everyone will state their predictions which I will write down on the WB. Once this stage has been completed, “the chances are that they will read [the text] with considerably more interest.” [Harmer, p. 288]....
Skills Related Tasks [Assignment 3]
Submission date: 24/05/2013
Omar Hussain
Amersham & Wycombe College
Skills Related Tasks [Assignment 3]
Submission date: 24/05/2013
Omar Hussain
Skills Related Task
This is a news article titled, “Stop juggling, start ingle-tasking” from the Evening Standard newspaper. I have chosen to use this material to teach the upper-intermediate class. I think the ss will find the topic quite interesting as most of them are au-pairs and have to multitask at some time during their work. They may also be able to closely relate to it and also benefit from it. I have chosen it for the upper-intermediate set of students as I believe it would be a nice little challenge or them. There are no blocking words in this article although there are quite a few words which they can guess from the context. So overall I do not see this piece as too hard for them.
1) Lead in / prediction task:
As the aim of the lead in is to stimulate an interest in the topic, I would begin by displaying the main picture from the newspaper and getting the class to work in pairs, I would ask them to predict what the topic of the newspaper article would be. However because the picture could mean numerous things, I would give them the real title of the article (“Stop juggling, start single-tasking”) and two more titles (1- “First Chinese man to join circus” and 2- “The rise of unemployment”). This is a very student centred activity which creates interest in the content of the text and “activates schemata” [Harmer, p. 271]. I would not drag this on for too long, but just enough to raise interest in what the text may be. Once they have discussed this in their pairs, a class feedback would be done and everyone will state their predictions which I will write down on the WB. Once this stage has been completed, “the chances are that they will read [the text] with considerably more interest.” [Harmer, p. 288]....