CELTA Language Skills Assignment
INTRODUCTION
The authentic text is a feature article that lists the things that can be done in Kuala Lumpur for free. The types of activities mentioned include food and drink, travel, culture, shopping and exercise. It consists of over 1000 words. The text and its following tasks are designed for intermediate learners.
The majority of learners in the class are from the Middle East and are currently residing in Kuala Lumpur. Many of them have not been in Malaysia for longer than 3 months and are still discovering the surrounding areas of the city. The text would provide motivation and purpose for the learners to overcome challenges in order to read its content.
The language used in the test is written in concise sense units (Ur, 2013, p139). The sentence structure is generally simple enough that reading it will be without hindrance.
Much of the content is general enough that students will be able to utilise their background knowledge to glean an overall understanding of it as a whole (Ur, 2013, p149). This would be true despite some of the more challenging vocabulary.
The vocabulary used in the text should provide students with enough challenge suited for gist reading, scanning and detailed reading. As such, tasks can be designed with enough variety as to encourage them to practice and use different reading strategies (Ur, 2013, p149).
It is hoped that these tasks will allow students to practice using top down reading skills in the English language just as they naturally do when reading in their own native language.
PRE-TASK
In response to this, to get the students oriented to the subject matter, we get students thinking about things they can do for free. The lesson would begin with a question to the students:
Have you done or received anything that was for free?
As a follow-up to the above, students would be given a cutout of the headline to the given text: 20 Things To Do For Free in KL. With it, students should then predict five things that can be done for
The authentic text is a feature article that lists the things that can be done in Kuala Lumpur for free. The types of activities mentioned include food and drink, travel, culture, shopping and exercise. It consists of over 1000 words. The text and its following tasks are designed for intermediate learners.
The majority of learners in the class are from the Middle East and are currently residing in Kuala Lumpur. Many of them have not been in Malaysia for longer than 3 months and are still discovering the surrounding areas of the city. The text would provide motivation and purpose for the learners to overcome challenges in order to read its content.
The language used in the test is written in concise sense units (Ur, 2013, p139). The sentence structure is generally simple enough that reading it will be without hindrance.
Much of the content is general enough that students will be able to utilise their background knowledge to glean an overall understanding of it as a whole (Ur, 2013, p149). This would be true despite some of the more challenging vocabulary.
The vocabulary used in the text should provide students with enough challenge suited for gist reading, scanning and detailed reading. As such, tasks can be designed with enough variety as to encourage them to practice and use different reading strategies (Ur, 2013, p149).
It is hoped that these tasks will allow students to practice using top down reading skills in the English language just as they naturally do when reading in their own native language.
PRE-TASK
In response to this, to get the students oriented to the subject matter, we get students thinking about things they can do for free. The lesson would begin with a question to the students:
Have you done or received anything that was for free?
As a follow-up to the above, students would be given a cutout of the headline to the given text: 20 Things To Do For Free in KL. With it, students should then predict five things that can be done for
Bibliography: Scrivener, J. (2011) Learning Teaching: A Guidebook for English Language Teachers. Macmillan Education Ur, P. (2012) A Course in English Language Teaching. Cambridge University Press