What type of main focus does each speaking activity have?
Minimal pair games (like bingo 13 vs 30)
Saying an ABC list of words
Repeating a text over and over again, each time erasing words
Using gestures for words not known
Making German words sound English
Getting a point for saying a correct sentence
Asking the same question over and over again, each time changing partners
Naming as many things as you can in a picture
Accuracy
Fluency
Range
Strategies (strategic competence)
What is it called when learners repeat after you, e.g. you say "They draw" and they say "They didn't draw"?
What do you call the language AROUND a game or an activity (e.g in an exercise, you teach "That's right"! instead of or as importantly as the language on the worksheet).
The TKT course states "Fluency activities allow learners to choose the language they use to speak. They include tasks such as information-gap activities, problem solving, project work, discussions, explaining solutions." Do you know what examples of each are?
| Stavka koja se može prevući | arrow_right_alt | Odgovarajuća stavka |
|---|---|---|
Problem solving | arrow_right_alt | One learner reads about the Asian elephant and the other about the African elephant. Then they share this with one another and fill in missing information about both elephants. |
Project work | arrow_right_alt | You want your learners to plan a class breakfast in English but there is a limited budget. Groups present suggestions. |
Information gap | arrow_right_alt | The local tourist office has asked schools to create brochures and signs in English of sites in the local community. Your class will do this for 8 places around your town. |
Describe a book-based project you would like to do with your class and say what skills it would help your learners to develop (think back to the last lesson)?
Words such as 'it's', 'there'll' and 'we've' are called
Which one is NOT true about D.E.A.R.?
Drag the characteristic to the appropriate approach
Focuses on sounds and phonemes
Focuses on word shapes
Focuses on quick recognition of words
Focuses on high frequency words
Focuses on grouping words by patterns
Whole language approach
Phonics approach
If you want to teach learners to be good readers, you can....
Choose all the correct answers.
What is a synonym for "memorizing" or "learning by heart"?
Drag the activities to the right category!
Listen/read and give what you heard/read a title.
Listening/reading for who said/wrote what and ticking the speaker in a chart.
Listen/read and ask questions / make statements that take the text a step further ("I think they went to soccer practice because they do not play football there").
Listen/read for specific info (e.g. to answer a question that asks "Where did they go?")
Listen/read and summarize in 1 sentence.
Listen/read and say what was not said/written but was implied.
Gist
Detail
Inference
Top down or bottom up?
Writing questions and listening/reading for answers
Sequencing information
Distinguishing where one word ends and another begins
Underlining linking words
Underlining all the modal verbs
Predicting
Top down
Bottom up
It is a good idea to have learners repeat what you said in English, in German.
If you want learners to be able to do the following things in English, you need to teach the corresponding language. Match the language with the function.
| Stavka koja se može prevući | arrow_right_alt | Odgovarajuća stavka |
|---|---|---|
agreeing | arrow_right_alt | I am very sorry. |
refusing | arrow_right_alt | It's nice to meet you. |
apologizing | arrow_right_alt | Would you like to join our group? |
greeting | arrow_right_alt | Maybe you can try this instead of that. |
giving advice | arrow_right_alt | You're completely right. |
inviting | arrow_right_alt | I would rather have this than that! |
expressing preferences | arrow_right_alt | No thank you, I don't want that. |
We talk about functions of language because they suit the ideas behind the CEFR in that we need to think about what language we are teaching is useful for which communicative situation. We refer to the language used to express a function as an
Reading for specific information such as numbers, proper nouns, or countries is called
A recipe, a story, a letter....there are all different types of text __________.