even whole sentences. It is also important to state that like adults‚ most of our reading is silent. When we read silently‚ we save the time spent on articulating words‚ and read in groups of words instead of one word at a time. However‚ a lot of people like students‚ are prone to reading for detail‚ which in the academic context for example‚ can be counterproductive if they are due to read just for an overall idea. The same happens with students who are learning a foreign or second language‚ and
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Bambara’s‚ “The Lesson”‚ illustrates the story of children growing up in poverty and how one person can make a huge difference in their lives. How one person creates an environment to help children not only discover‚ but succeed in learning some very important issues about the world around them. Education for children in poverty stricken neighborhoods‚ such as the main character‚ Sylvia’s‚ proves itself difficult to acquire‚ however is essentially the best way to move beyond poverty; shown by the
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The Lesson In “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara‚ the author writes about Sylvia’s childhood experience as a student. She is a young-immature‚ uneducated‚ and naive kid who doesn’t know much about life‚ but her teacher tries to help her by giving her a lesson of reality as well to the rest of her students. She describes her teacher as a lady‚ Miss Moore‚ with “nappy hair‚” “proper speech‚” and “no makeup.” Sylvia explains how she feels when she goes to toy store in Fifth Avenue. For example‚
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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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comes late. 4. They were waiting by the fountain. Correct. 5. Can I have a coffee black please? Incorrect. Correction: Can I have a black coffee please? 6. People with 12 items or less can queue here. Incorrect. Correction: People with 12 items or fewer can queue here. Task 8 Provide a list of reasons why English language teachers need to know about grammar. In doing so‚ try to give some thought to the learners’ perspective. It is
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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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Assignment 1 / Language focus The car’s going to crash Form describe the form: Be going to Affirmative: Subject + be + going to + bare infinitive Interrogative: Be + subject + going to + bare infinitive ? Negative: Subject + be + not + going to + bare infinitive Short form response: Yes‚ subject + be + going to + bare infinitive No‚ subject + be + not + going to + bare infinitive Phonology : /gəʊɪŋ/ Anticipated Problems
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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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TARGET SENTENCE 1I’m meeting Dave for lunch on Sunday – Elementary Level / Grammar ANALYSIS | D ANTICPATED PROBLEMS | A MEANING You have plans to eat with Dave on Sunday So it is…. A planned future event This is an event that will happen in the future. | SS think because is present tense of [to be]‚ that this event is now / in the present. SS may not think it is a definite arrangement‚ more of a plan. Confusion with “meat”? Unlikely in this case | B PRONUNCIATION
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Phonemic pronunciation: / pʊt ɒf / There is linking with the weak form of off in this verbal phrase. The sentence stress in on the phrasal verb put off and the continuous verb sleeping Appropriacy: Informal‚ can be used when you are talking with people. It should not be used when writing a business letter. Anticipated problems and solutions Problem: Students might not understand the lexical phrases meaning. Solution: Use physical gestures and graded language to simplify the meaning also use the
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