Remember elicit meaning and teach pronunciation before the form

Unit 2: Assignment

Question 1 - Multi Line Text

Task 1

Think about your own personality traits. What are the top five characteristics you have that will make you a good teacher? Please briefly explain your reasons.

Task 2

1. Lead-in

2. Presentation

This is where you teach the TL. Remember to elicit meaning and teach pronunciation before the form. We must also find a way for students to “discover” meaning, and don’t simply tell them meaning.

3. Practice (controlled)

Here briefly explain how to practice the TL in a controlled manner – you can use gap fills, word jumbles, picture to word matches, sentence correction, etc.

4. Production (free)

The lesson plan on the present continuous for actions happening now.
Here are the main reasons why students are asked to redo this assignment, so it’s worth using this as a checklist before you submit for marking:

Lead-in:

• Not saying how you elicit the meaning and the form of the TL. You also need to write the actual form of the TL, so we know you know it.

• Not teaching the pronunciation.

• Providing a controlled activity rather than a free one, which are debates, role plays, etc. A free activity needs to be a real-life situation that corners the students into using the TL in a natural way. If you have to ask the students to use the TL, then the situation is not specific enough.

• Asking students to talk about what they ‘like doing’ because this is not the TL.