Assignment 2.3 - Celta
LANGUAGE SKILLS RELATED TASKS 2.3
1: A rationale for your choice of text based on interest and usefulness. Do not provide a rationale based on discrete grammatical or lexical items.
(Text is provided at Appendix 1)
“A student finishing an Elementary course should be able to do or know the following:
• talk about past time
• make future plans or arrangements
• describe people using simple adjectives
• describe places sing simple adjectives
• express his/her hopes or intentions
• ask people to do something for them
• cope in simple social situations (e.g. talk about the weather, describe simple physical problems, give advice
• listen to natural speech and conversation, and undersatand the gist of what being said
← use authentic newspaper and find specific information required
• write simple letters and be able to link ideas together ”
(Riddell.D,2003:p258)
The text was chosen to increase awareness of employment situations in the UK and to deduce factual information from newspaper advertisements.
The individuals in my previous teaching practice have a number of things in common with each other although there will be significant differences between them in terms of age and level. The few things that everyone has in common is that most learners are learning English to be able to live in an English-speaking country and to seek employment. This is often called extrinsic motivation.
“Extrinsic motivation is the result of any number of outside factors, for example the need to pass an exam, the hope of financial reward or the possibility of future travel”(Harmer.J,2007:p98)
This lesson will prove useful if the learners try to gain access to employment in future. Almost any type of newspaper advertisement can be used to deduce facts about daily life and to get information about the
1: A rationale for your choice of text based on interest and usefulness. Do not provide a rationale based on discrete grammatical or lexical items.
(Text is provided at Appendix 1)
“A student finishing an Elementary course should be able to do or know the following:
• talk about past time
• make future plans or arrangements
• describe people using simple adjectives
• describe places sing simple adjectives
• express his/her hopes or intentions
• ask people to do something for them
• cope in simple social situations (e.g. talk about the weather, describe simple physical problems, give advice
• listen to natural speech and conversation, and undersatand the gist of what being said
← use authentic newspaper and find specific information required
• write simple letters and be able to link ideas together ”
(Riddell.D,2003:p258)
The text was chosen to increase awareness of employment situations in the UK and to deduce factual information from newspaper advertisements.
The individuals in my previous teaching practice have a number of things in common with each other although there will be significant differences between them in terms of age and level. The few things that everyone has in common is that most learners are learning English to be able to live in an English-speaking country and to seek employment. This is often called extrinsic motivation.
“Extrinsic motivation is the result of any number of outside factors, for example the need to pass an exam, the hope of financial reward or the possibility of future travel”(Harmer.J,2007:p98)
This lesson will prove useful if the learners try to gain access to employment in future. Almost any type of newspaper advertisement can be used to deduce facts about daily life and to get information about the