75 012LESSON TYPES

74 013IMPORTANT FEEDBACK STAGES

Stage One: TP 1 and 2 Rapport Setting up activities (using demos, giving concise instructions, using ICQs,  grouping students, eliciting, feedback) Awareness of self and students Use of whiteboard Graded language

Stage Two: TP 3, 4, Achievement of lesson aims Completion of sufficient language analysis Awareness of errors and correction (language and phonology) Pacing and timing Provision of language practice Concept checking Contextualization of language (Continual focus on Stage 1 aspects)

73 014every time - everytime?? wrong everytime

It's just wrong. There is no such word as everytime. I have been proven wrong so often in this forum that I have developed the habit of never making the assertion that anything is absolutely correct or incorrect, but in this case, I feel confident enough to state that the word is simply wrong (and now I await the inevitable rebuttal).

72 015 ASSIGNMENT 02

learning style

This group is mostly Visual learners (Sheerin, S. Self Access. OUP,

1989): aided by boardwork / picture concepts that explain meaning. Theyare open to Kinesthetic (Sheerin) experiences, which allow them to move around the classroom and/or write at the whiteboard using target

language.

There are two Auditory learners (Sheerin), who listen to learn, take

extensive notes and talk much less than their fellow learners.

2

Sheerin says that

educators must recognize and provide for differences in students’ psychology, personality, and purposes for learning. 

She needs to develop reading skills 

lack of reading and writing skills, it made her concerned and motivated her to start studying the language 

******According to Ryan& Stiller (1991) motivation is distinguished in:

Intrinsic motivation, which refers to doing something because it is inherently interesting or enjoyable and extrinsic motivation, which refers to doing something because it leads to a separable outcome. 

classroom behavior

According to what she told me, pair and group work activities are crucial to build her confidence and make speaking –  what she says to be her worst skill – easier and enjoyable. In my observations,

I could notice that she has some good writing and grammar skills, she has no problems with word order or tenses, and she can organize her ideas coherently. 

main strengths 

Weakness

This lack of practice was evident during the classes.

She constructed some grammatically sound sentences when she wrote, “I want to improve my speaking English.... Speaking is hard for me, Because, I don't have a lot of vocabulary.”

 In one of the task assigned in class she wrote “ I think good computers skills is creating a spreadsheet.” It showsthat besides having acquired the piece of language taught she couldn‟t construct  a sentence in a correct order, as in the sentence where she said “ dress black” instead of saying “black dress”.

Some pronunciation problems have occurred, as the majority, she has problems with „th‟ sounds and mispronounced almost all words with this combination.

In a speaking activity she said “I can dance very well“she created the sentence totally out of the  blue, I mean, the sentence wasn‟t written on the board. She really learnt from the lesson.

 It shows that she was really concentrated and she is really willing to learn the language. She interacts well with the peers what makes her practice more efficient.

Some suggestions for ways inwhich the students could behelped to improve in the areas ofweakness mentioned in the previous section.

Provide at least three concrete examples.

As almost all beginners, her problems with word order are clear. In order to help her to overcome this issue I would suggest some activities such as Maze they are fun and really efficient. It consists in breaking sentences into grids.

The idea is to connect the words in the correct order with a line. Only words that share a side may be connected. To introduce some reading in her daily studies would help her to get in touch with written English, it could help her to get used to the correct order of words in English.

Mispronouncing the "th" sound by making a simple "s" or "t" sound is very common among English language learners, to help her I would suggest some online dictionaries that show the pronunciation of the words and some useful websites with exercises about the topic. 

As for group work, in class I would illustrate to students how they can pronounce the "th" sound correctly, that is, how to stick their tongue out and introduce the students to some mispronounced words from their mother tongue to show them how they would seem to be non-natives if they mispronounced words.

Third, I would devise an oral drill based on some familiar words with "th" sounds. I would choose a number of words from the learners' textbooks and ask them to repeat the words in groups or individually.

Any further comments you may feel relevant

71 016bare infinitive - INFINITIVE GERUND

Gerunds after Prepositions

This is a good rule. It has no exceptions!

If we want to use a verb after a preposition, it must be a gerund. It is impossible to use an infinitive after a preposition. So for example, we say:

• I will call you after arriving at the office.
• Please have a drink before leaving.
• I am looking forward to meeting you.
• Do you object to working late?
• Tara always dreams about going on holiday.

Notice that you could replace all the above gerunds with "real" nouns:

• I will call you after my arrival at the office.
• Please have a drink before your departure.
• I am looking forward to our lunch.
• Do you object to this job?
• Tara always dreams about holidays.

The above rule has no exceptions! So in the following examples why is "to" followed by "driving" in the first and by "drive" in the second?

1. I am used to driving on the left.
2. I used to drive on the left.

Show answer

Verb + bare infinitive

 

 

When we have two verbs together in a sentence, the form of the second verb is influenced by the first verb.

This table shows which verbs require the second verb to take the form of the bare infinitive (infinitive without to).

Verb + bare infinitive
The bare infinitive (an infinitive without 'to') is used after certain verbs which are followed by an object: let, make, see, hear, feel.	My parents didn't let me watch TV at night. Did you see anyone enter the building? He made me laugh.
The bare infinitive is used after modal verbs:can, should, could, might, may, etc.	He can't sing. It might be a good idea.

70 017ANDRE EMAIL 15TH SEPTEMBER and WORK PLACES

Hi Pier,

Hope you are doing fine! Have a look at the following:

1. Assignment

You are on the right track here. Mind the next information:

a. The meaning needs to be more complete. What does it mean to have been to a place?

b. It is a good thing you have included a timeline. Do so whenever possible.

c. The form is really complete and appropriate.

d. for the pronunciation, you will need to tackle the whole sentence for the sake of phonemic transcription. However, you will anticipate problems only for the target language.

e. there should be at least 2 anticipated problems and solutions.

2. Next teaching point

For your next lesson (after this coming Friday’s one), you wil be doing Reading.

The general context is the TV. On page 26 of the coursebook on Dropbox (Intermediate folder), you will find, in the second column, the text.

Task 9, on the same page, can be done as gist.

Task 10, on page 27, can be used for specifics.

you will need to come up wth a strong context, and a communicative last task (follow-up).

Have a good look at it and we can talk more on this coming Friday.

André

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September 5th keen on

Hi, I think at school I was taught this construction:

keen on + gerund 

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What does it mean to ‘know a word’?

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Warm up - Talking about classes, about how many hours of classes per week.
Don't consider the CELTA course as a burden.
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S u CC e SS fu LLY

2 VERB TENSES

12 CONJUGATIONS

3 Perfect Tense

Have you ever had...
Past Perfect/ Present Perfect Progressive
4 Forms on the Board

FUTURE
By the time
How will
Had the course begun
Have you ever talked

Future Perfect - meaning Approach

P.

Form.
Clarification MPF

Pres. Perfect
Have you ever
Key problems
Pres. Perfect

B)In the meantime - the past up to this moment - expresses unfinished action
unfinished past action
C) recent action - wich produces a kind of result in the present - expressed
recent indefinite past actions

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Feedback
So, for example, I would write or say: 

I'm keen on improving my English.
She is keen on making new friends.

Lately, I have often heard and seen this construction:

keen to + infinitive

For example, on CNN I heard this phrase:

Companies are keen to show their latest products at CEBIT.

Does this mean that both constructions are correct? Is there a difference between them?

Thank you all, my English language friends ;-).
Nicole