So it will definitely attract student’s attention and their full involvement in the lesson. 2. Pre-reading stage(s) “As with listening lessons‚ many reading lessons move from ‘big’ to ‘small’‚ i.e. ‘top-down’ – from overview to details.” (Scrivener; 2009: 187) To start from an overview we need to provoke a question‚ a general idea on the given topic. Here‚ I’d display a nice flipchart with beautiful‚ world-renown sceneries and a statement: ‘Travel broadens the mind’. Then I’d turn to students
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References: Aitken‚ Rosemary (2002) Teaching Tenses. Brighton: ELB Publishing. Cowan‚ Ron (2008) The Teacher’s Grammar of English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Scrivener‚ Jim () Learning Teaching: The Essential Guide to English Language Teaching. 3rd edition. MacMillan Press. Scrivener‚ Jim () Teaching English Grammar: What to Teach and How to Teach it. MacMillan Press. Thornbury‚ Scott (1999) How to Teach Grammar. Harlow: Pearson Education Limited. Workman‚ Graham (2008)
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acquiring a foreign language. Whereas the grammar translation method focuses on the translation of certain grammar rules and the translation of vocabulary‚ the communicative approach aims for acquiring the skill of communication for the learner Scrivener (2011). Both methods are effective in their own way‚ although the communicative approach focuses on the actual goal of language‚ namely communication between human beings. In this essay the grammar translation method and the communicative approach
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1. THEORY OF SPEAKING This part‚ dealing with the theoretical background of speaking‚ aims to determine the position of the speaking skill among the other skills and to analyze the elements that speaking as a skill includes. Speaking is as a language skill used as a communication tool to share ideas‚ feelings‚ opinions‚ thoughts‚ or information by using the target language. It is an interactive process of constructing meaning that involves producing‚ receiving and processing information
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was enchanted by his love for Helen. While W. B. Yeats writes in his poem No second Troy about some lady whose charms and beauty are so similiar to Helen‚ “Why‚ what could she have done being what she is? Was there another Troy for her to burn?”(Bartleby). One says that Helen of Troy is an outstanding character in history who proved that passion and power can transform men to let them be kingly people. References • Greenblatt‚ S.‚ Logan‚ G.‚ & Schwyzer‚ P. (2003-2009). The Norton Anthology
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a grammar book and a methodology book if possible. Recommended books: Grammar: Parrot‚ Martin – Grammar for English Language Teachers (Cambridge University Press) Swan‚ Michael – Practical English Usage (Oxford University Press) Methodology: Jim Scrivener – Learning Teaching (Macmillan) Jeremy Harmer – How to Teach English (Longman) 1. Below are pairs of commonly confused words. Explain briefly how you would convey to a student how the words in each pair differ in meaning. a. b. sensitive / sensible
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Mary Wollstonecraft‚ a well-known 18th century philosopher‚ scholar‚ women’s rights activist‚ educator‚ and journalist was born on April 27‚ 1759 in London‚ England. The beginning of her life was influenced immensely by her abusive father who spent the family’s fortune on unsuccessful ventures in farming as well as the sudden death of her mother in 1780. From this‚ Mary was determined to make a living on her own‚ and set off for with her sister and best friend to establish a school in Newington Green
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ASSIGNMENT 2 FOCUS ON THE LEARNER Background - Life and learning styles Initially when I started observing the students in our Elementary class‚ I had a few choices but the one that stood out to me‚ I think‚ has such an interesting story to tell for her few years that she’s been on this earth. I interviewed Rine M.‚ a 23 year old Management from the DRC (Democratique Republic of Congo)‚ in the Elementary English Class. Rine‚ who has a degree in Marketing‚ has been in Durban for the past
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LITR 211 English Literature 18th Century to the Present Week 6 January 15‚ 2012 Essay #1 “The symbolic use of nature in the Romantic Period” Olejniczak‚ Brian #4029035 The Romantic period has very little to do with its actual name. Rather‚ the authors of this period used descriptive imagery and extensively referenced nature because the use of nature is symbolic. There are many authors of the Romantic period that illustrate this point. Instead of embracing the political lifestyle of the
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aided in bringing to light his argument on the vitality of having money in order to live a favorable life because he had the information to sustain his appeal. One piece of material exercised to further his point was “to be a law-stationer‚ or a scrivener or scavenger‚” suggesting that a life without money is similar to the life of a scrounger with nothing of his own. The evidence‚ to be “avoided by those who know your worth and shrink from it is as a claim on their respect or their purse‚” manifests
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