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Complete Dossier for ELTACS Master Trainer Course Participants

CONTENTS

Task 1: LANGUAGE AWARENESS

Task 2: LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

Task 3: LANGUAGE LEARNING PROCESS

Task 4: LANGUAGE TEACHING

Task 5: PLANNING AND EVALUATION

Task 6: SELF-ASSESSMENT AND DEVELOPMENT

Adapted by: Fabiola Pérez Palma.

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ICC/EUROLTA Certification

Task 1:

LANGUAGE AWARENESS

Theme: Talking about vacation.

Table of Contents:

Description of the areaDescription of class and courseTopicAims of the lessonPersonal aimsProcedureConclusionsSelf-evaluationLesson planAttachments

Description of the area

This area deals with the analysis of phonology, grammatical and lexical structures and the use

of related basic terminology. Embodied in this area is the target language description (system

of abstract elements, constructions and rules) and appropriate terminology. It also includes

the analysis of learning materials as well as the delivery of clear and effective explanations

to help students to understand better. Furthermore, it considers the effective use of reference

materials and the awareness of language systems differences.


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2. Description of class and course

This group is made up by 25 students, 19 girls and 6 boys. Their ages range between 18

and 22 years old. Their English level is basic and corresponds to A1. Students have not enough

command of the language (English) since they have studied in Public Schools, where students most of the time do

not take advantage of learning a new language.

This group has English class on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:00 a.m. to 10:40 a.m.

3. Topic

“Present Progressive”

4. Aims of the lesson

Talking about vacations

5. Personal aims

To help students to develop self-confidence to talk with others in L2 through a lively and

encouraging lesson.

6. Procedure

Before the class started, I pasted pictures depicting people performing different action activities (Attachment).

1. Cut up Worksheet 8 into activities, or make your own. One student comes to the front of the class, draws a piece of paper with an activity on it, and acts out the activity silently. The class tries to guess what he/she is

doing.

The Ice breaker was a good start because students were very participative in the miming activity.

2. The students can take turns acting out the activities, or you can divide the class into teams. A student from each team presents the activity to his/her team. If the team guesses correctly in the allotted time (30


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seconds), the team scores a point. You may also allow the other team to “steal” after the time limit is up. This keeps all students involved.

NOTE: If you make up your own activities rather than using the worksheet, make the activities involved. “Jumping” is too easy even for low levels. “Jumping on your left foot” is better.

Also, they drew a mind map in order to review the topic of the previous class.

Another ice breaker you could use is to play the Lyric “Lemon Tree” so the students have to fill in the blanks using the verbs that end in –ing form.

All the students were involved, they sang and practice the pronunciation and spelling rules.

The discovery activity went well as the students were able to understand the concept

of “present progressive” for describing actions that are taking place at the moment. I used different colorful papers to highlight the interrogative, negative and affirmative form.

The personalization stage fulfilled its purpose, which was to help students to see the practical

use of this grammar structure in their daily lives. In addition they wrote down some paragraphs guessing what

their families or relatives were doing at the moment of the class.

7. Conclusions

This lesson gave students a lot of opportunities to practice the grammar structure and the

Pronunciation & spelling. Furthermore, they acknowledged the importance of being able to describe the situations

or activities that are happening at the moment.

The use of music, realia and miming help students understand better the topic and they got fun while learning

English.

8. Self-Evaluation

In spite the fact that students understood the grammar point and succeeded in the

correct use of present progressive, I think that I should have brought extra material and more classroom

arrangement tips.


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Lesson Plan

Subject : Idioma Extranjero 1 Time: 60 minutes Level: A1 Student: 25

Time

Language or grammar objective

Present progressive (affirmative, interrogative and negative form)

Functional objective Talking about vacations

5 minutes Warm-up activity Teacher organizes small teams by giving them a number from 1 to 3, so we can have 3 teams of 5 students each one.

Teacher sets the game. Teacher gives a puzzle to each team. Then teacher gives the instructions.

1. Give each team a puzzle.2. Teacher explains the rules of the game. “You’re going to make the

puzzle while the music is playing. The first team who finishes the puzzle is the winner, and there is a prize”.

7.5 minutes Vocabulary to be elicited

Vocabulary Referent Concept questions

Run Miming Where do you run? Who runs in the morning?

Read Miming /Realia

What do you read? Where do you usually read?

Eat Miming How many times do you eat in a day? What time do you eat

breakfast/lunch/dinner?

Dance Miming Where do you dance?


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Who likes to dance?

Play soccer Miming Who plays soccer in the classroom? When do you play soccer?

5 minutes Focus question Where is Armi?

10 minutes Presentation plan Teacher shows a Power Point presentation on board to explain inductively the meaning and structure of the PRESENT PROGRESSIVE. Teacher reads the 2 uses of the present progressive. Then, students choose the best option according to the uses of present continuous.

Teacher explains the present progressive structure using color papers with positive and negative sentences.

8 minutes All activities and instructions

Activity 1. Put the words and phrases in the correct order to form sentences, using the present progressive.

1) Susana / writing /a / is / letter2) taking / Alex and Joe / classes / are / karate3) isn’t / Paola / this / working / week4) are / videogames / playing / they5) aren’t / sandwiches / making / Alice and Conchita

10 minutes Activity 2. Complete the sentences using the words in the box. Use Present Progressive in affirmative or negative form.

drink / eat / watch / work / do

1) I can’t watch TV. I _________ my homework.2) Dora is in the kitchen. She _________ soda.3) Joe is on a diet this month. He _________ cake or cookies.4) Shhh! Cocoyeyo ______________ a really good show on TV.5) Mike __________ in the International Office. He likes his job.

15 minutes Production activities Teacher asks students to imagine they are on vacation. Students work individually and answer these questions:

Where are you? What are you doing?( 2 activities)

Then, teacher asks students to work in pairs, and have to agree in only one place and 2 activities for both of them.

Teacher goes back to the slide where the e-mail is. He will introduce the parts of the e-mail (opening, body, closing).


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Students write an e-mail to their teacher following the e-mail structure from the focus question exercise. Students have to go to the computer lab in order to do the activity.

Motivation Need In order to produce the activity, students will have to think about the place they want to go and the activities they are doing.

Value Teacher will give three extra-points to all the students who send the email to the teacher one day before the next class.

Expectation Teacher will create the belief to each student that at the end of the class they will be able to write an e-mail expressing their activities they are doing at the moment. Besides students will gain confidence about communicating in a foreign language even they are in basic levels.


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Attachments


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What are they doing? – Present progressive

Put students into groups of four or five. Give each group a set of cards face down. Students take turns to take a card and mime what s/he is doing. The winner takes the card.

He’s phoning his wife.

She’s washing her hair.

They’re dancing.

They’re having an argument.

She’s waiting for a train.

They’re getting married.

He’s cleaning the stairs.

She’s running a race.

It’s raining.


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They’re studying English.

She’s thinking about her dog.

He’s watching a sad movie.

She’s brushing her hair.

He’s riding a camel.

They’re playing computer games.

She’s sunbathing.

He’s cooking spaghetti.

She’s feeding her cat.

He’s learning to drive

She’s taking a photo.

It’s snowing.


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TASK 1.

Listen to the song Lemon Tree by Fool's Garden and complete the sentences with the Present

Participle to form the Present Continuous tense.

I'm______________here in a boring room It's just another rainy Sunday afternoon I'm__________my time I got nothing to do I'm______around I'm __________for you but nothing ever happens - and I wonder

I'm__________around in my car I'm______________too fast I'm ___________too far I'd like to change my point of view

I feel so lonely I'm ___________for you but nothing ever happens - and I wonderI wonder how I wonder why yesterday you told me 'bout the blue blue sky and all tall that I can see is just a yellow lemon-tree I'm _________my head up and down I'm turning turning turning turning turning around and all that I can see is just another lemon-treeI'm______here I miss the power

I'd like to go out, take a shower but there's a heavy cloud inside my head I feel so tired put myself into bed where nothing ever happens - and I wonder

Isolation - is not good for me Isolation - I don't want to sit on a lemon-tree

I'm_____around in a desert of joy

Baby, anyhow I'll get another toy and every thing will happen -and you'll wonder

I wonder how I wonder why yesterday you told me 'bout the blue blue sky and all tall that I can see is just a yellow lemon-treeI'm my head up and down I'm turning turning turning turning turning around and all that I can see is just another lemon-tree

TASK 1.

Listen to the song Lemon Tree by Fool's Garden and complete the sentences

with the Present Participle to form the Present Continuous tense.

I'm______________here in a boring room It's just another rainy Sunday afternoon I'm__________my time I got nothing to do I'm______around I'm __________for you but nothing ever happens - and I wonder

I'm__________around in my car I'm______________too fast I'm ___________too far I'd like to change my point of view

I feel so lonely I'm ___________for you but nothing ever happens - and I wonderI wonder how I wonder why yesterday you told me 'bout the blue blue sky and all tall that I can see is just a yellow lemon-tree I'm _________my head up and down I'm turning turning turning turning turning around and all that I can see is just another lemon-treeI'm______here I miss the power

I'd like to go out, take a shower but there's a heavy cloud inside my head I feel so tired put myself into bed where nothing ever happens - and I wonder

Isolation - is not good for me Isolation - I don't want to sit on a lemon-tree

I'm_____around in a desert of joy

Baby, anyhow I'll get another toy and every thing will happen -and you'll wonder

I wonder how I wonder why yesterday you told me 'bout the blue blue sky and all tall that I can see is just a yellow lemon-treeI'm my head up and down I'm turning turning turning turning turning around and all that I can see is just another lemon-tree


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VOCABULARY TO ELICIT


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Activity: Where is Armi?


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Reading activity

Hi Lorenzo!!

It’s Monday, so we are taking Wanda’s class. How are you?

My brother is in the kitchen. He is eating a delicious hamburger. He isn’t reading his book.

My father is dancing with my mom, and my dog cowboy is running in the yard. My sister is playing soccer with her friends. They’re not good at playing, but they’re having fun. Fortunately they are very patient.

How are things with you?

Love, Armi.

Present Progressive

The present progressive can indicate:

a)things happening at the moment

Example:

1. I am reading a good book (Affirmative sentence)

2. Amy is eating a hamburger.

3. My mom is NOT dancing right now. (Negative sentence)

4. We are NOT studying English.

5. Is My mom eating a hamburger? (Interrogative sentence)


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