1. Choosing the text Both Harmer and Scrivener are very direct with their advice for choosing texts for reading and listening: Grade the tasks‚ not the material. Despite keeping this in mind I felt anxious about possibly choosing an authentic text that would be discouraging for our group of elementary-level students due to its complexity. I settled on a list of tips for saving energy published on the National Geographic Kids website (see Appendix 1). I chose this text because we have
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HSC 3045 TASK 2 2.1 Proactive Strategies Proactive strategies are the strategies that are already in place to deal with behavioural problems. Proactive behaviour management is about sharing what strategies are with the children to make sure they know what’s expected of them. Reasons children behave as expected could be that they simply ‘know’ what is expected of them or they ‘know’ the consequences for not
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before moving 2. Many foreign learners have learnt that Will and Shall are used to refer to the future in English e.g. Jane’ll be home soon. However‚ in natural colloquial English other forms are frequently used. Look up and find 3 more ways of talking about the future without using will or shall. Give example sentences. a. Im going to teach English b. Im gonna teach english c. Language - varieties 3
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1. Background and education framework For this assignment I interviewed XXX‚ a 26 year old refugee from Eritrea. The political situation in his country is grave. It is a single-party presidential republic‚ where any kind of outspoken criticism is punished without trial. Back home the government recruited him to be a soldier and as he would not comply‚ he had to run. He fled to Slovenia with his wife‚ leaving three children in Eritrea to live with their grandparents until he and his wife find a
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PRE-INTERVIEW LANGUAGE AWARENESS TASK A. STRUCTURES 1. Give an example of each of the following tenses (1 sentence each) Present simple The earth orbits the sun. Present continuous I am preparing my exam. Past simple Underground staff went on strike last Monday. Past continuous I was reading while he was watching television. Present perfect simple I have completed my dissertation successfully. Present perfect continuous I have been working at the school since 2008. Present
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Assignment 1 : FOCUS ON THE LEARNER Learner Profile Juan Carlos is a 50 year old native Colombian student‚ currently residing in Switzerland. He has an intermediate level of English. He works as an Information Technology (IT) engineer and has acquired the necessary English vocabulary to function effectively within this sector. He would like to improve his everyday English fluency in order to interact more effectively with the Lausanne immigrant community‚ which uses English as the primary language
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CELTA Assignment 1 – Language analysis Target statement: He can speak 5 different languages. Analysis a) Meaning To talk about present or ‘general’ ability. (Elementary) d) Anticipated problems Sts might confuse with permission b) Form statement: subj. + can + verb (bare infinitive) +… negative: subj. + can’t + verb (bare infinitive)+... question: Can + subj.+ verb (bare infinitive) +… Sts may use can for the future: I will can speak English Sts may add s when using the
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James Quinn Assignment 3 Reasons for choosing text Although a long piece of text‚ it contains an overall context of animal powers and is an interesting topic. Similar topics students have worked with include qualities of famous people and superheroes. It is an authentic text‚ containing a wide range of language items and so provides a challenge for intermediate students. The text could also be broken down into sections for specific tasks. Receptive language sub-skills that could be practised
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CELTA Assignment 1 I’ve been waiting here for two hours. 1. Meaning I was waiting here 2 hours ago. I am still waiting here. 2. Form Subject + have/has + past participle (been) + present participle 3. Pronunciation Contraction of I and have. Been has a short /i/. Stress on ‘/Wei/’ in waiting. 4. Eliciting Show picture 1 of a man standing with a clock above his head. The time is 12pm. Show picture 2 of the man still standing but the clock now says 2pm and he looks unhappy while
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Selma Pasanbegovic Assignment 1 – Focus on the Learner Task a: Learner’s Background For the purpose of this assignment I chose Feruza‚ an Eritrean high school graduate. She was born and raised in Eritrea and came to live in Jeddah only five years ago. She studied English in an elementary school in Eritrea and continued studying it in an Eritrean International High School. She is not happy at all with what she has learnt during those years. She explained that during her elementary school years
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