Teaching Knowledge Test

Preparation
MODULE TWO

13 April, 2019 Instructor: Jeremy Dodd

 Today’s Lesson
Lesson Planning
Course Books
Supplementary Material
Mock Test

Today’s lesson covers units 22, 24, and 25 of the coursebook.

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 Mock Test
What was difficult?

What was easy?

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 Supplementary Materials vs. Coursebook

Which do you prefer to use in class?

Which books or materials do you use?

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 Supplementary Materials vs. Coursebook

What are some reasons to use coursebooks?

What are some reasons to use supplementary materials?

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 Supplementary Materials vs. Coursebook

Here are three activities to teach modal verbs. One is musical, the other a quiz
competition, and the other a reading from a coursebook.

Compare each and decide which you prefer.

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 Supplementary Materials vs. Coursebook

https://create.kahoot.it/details/modal-verbs/aebbd310-2f80-4b80-903d-ee0c6b4d0c39

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 Supplementary Materials vs. Coursebook

https://lyricstraining.com/play/gloria-gaynor/i-will-survive/HsilzhbU4s

Complete the lyrics, then answer the questions on this sheet about the language used in
the song.

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 Supplementary Materials vs. Coursebook

Kahoot quiz
Positive:
Negative:

LyricsTraining.com
Positive:
Negative:

Reading and prompts from coursebook

Positive:
Negative:

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 Supplementary Materials vs. Coursebook

https://lyricstraining.com/play/gloria-gaynor/i-will-survive/HsilzhbU4s

https://create.kahoot.it/details/modal-verbs/aebbd310-2f80-4b80-903d-ee0c6b4d0c39

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 Supplementary Materials vs. Coursebook
REASONS FOR USING COURSEBOOKS
Graded for the level of your students
Well-known procedures
Logical sequence of materials
Available for the ss to revise and look back
It is easy for the ss to see their progress
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REASONS FOR USING SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS
Change of pace
More variety of tasks
Realia and authentic materials
More practice when necessary
Different way of presenting or explaining topics or
language
Personalised materials, ie.suitable for your ss in
particular
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 Supplementary Materials

Positive:

Negative:

Coursebooks

Positive:

Negative:

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 Supplementary Materials & Coursebooks

Look through one of the coursebooks and fill out this sheet.

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 Supplementary Material

Find one activity and topic to use each of these supplementary

materials for.

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 Supplementary Material

Fill out the sheet by finding two purposes each aid can be used for.

Blackboard/whiteboard Video

Overhead projector Computer

Tape recorder/ CD player Language laboratory

Bilingual and monolingual Flashcards

dictionaries
Dice and ball Wallcharts

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Blackboard/whiteboard Video
 writing words and ideas that come up during the lesson  for information gap tasks (with one learner viewing and one just listening)
 drawing or displaying pictures  viewing without sound and guessing the language
 building up ideas in diagrams, word maps, etc.  pausing and predicting the language (i.e. saying what you think is coming next)
 for learners to write answers  with a camera, filming learners’ performance
 for whole-class compositions

Overhead projector Computer

 displaying results of group work  narrative building with a word processor
 building up information by putting one transparency on top of another  supplementary materials for coursebooks
 covering up or gradually uncovering parts of the transparency  online language tests
 displaying pictures and diagrams on photocopiable transparencies  using online dictionaries
 using CD-ROMs
 email exchanges
 online communication (chatting)
 online newspapers and magazines
 project work using the internet

Tape recorder/ CD player Language laboratory

 presenting new language in dialogues and stories  pronunciation practice
 giving models for pronunciation practice  extensive listening
 recording learners’ oral performance  monitoring and giving feedback to individual learners
 listening for pleasure  developing speaking skills

Monolingual dictionaries Flashcards

 helping the teacher define words  teaching vocabulary
 for lexis games and quizzes  prompts for practising grammatical structures
 helping learners write crosswords or lexis ‘tests’ for their peers  building narratives and dialogues
 for quizzes and games

Dice and ball Wallcharts

 for name games  displaying larger, more detailed pictures
 for speaking activities  displaying a series of pictures telling a story or teaching lexis
 for board games  displaying posters learners have made
 helping the teacher put learners into new groups  displaying tables of irregular verbs
 a phonemic chart
 Break

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 Module Two Mock Test

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Say a word using one of these phonemes. Your partner has five seconds to think of a word with the next phoneme. You
can skip three. The person who lasts the longest wins!
 Write a line from your favorite song or movie in the phonemic script.

Give it to your partner. She has to read it and guess what it is from.

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 Write the following
information about yourself
using the phonemic script:

Name:
Job:
Hometown:
Nationality:

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 Questions?

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 There is no class next week.

Please complete the module three mock test

before the 27th.

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 Teaching Knowledge Test
Preparation
MODULE TWO

13 April, 2019 Instructor: Jeremy Dodd