Assignment A
Text 2 – Lower Intermediate
✓ This part of the assignment focuses on stage 2 of a lower-intermediate reading lesson.
✓ You should show what you would do for the vocabulary pre-teaching stage of the lesson.
✓ Include any references necessary in the bibliography template. See 'Referencing' document for advice on what is required.
✓ Read 'Advice on Approaching this Assignment' before you begin work on this template.
✓ Class: Lower intermediate (B1), 13 young learners, age range 12-14.
These students attend EFL classes because their parents are keen for them to have extra English lessons in addition to what their state schools provide. M
but you have found you can engage them if you make the lessons fun and interesting.
Fortnite – a pleasure or a problem?
Fortnite is an online video game made by a company called Epic Games. Players can fight enemies, collect materials and items, and make buildings. The game has three di
called ‘Battle Royale’. In a battle royale, players start with no items, and collect weapons and other equipment as they play. Players try to remove other players and surviv
one hundred players. The last player left alive is the winner.
Fortnite is extremely popular. It came out in 2017 and now has hundreds of millions of players. And Epic Games has made hundreds of millions of dollars. Celebrities, s
people have become celebrities because they play the game. Fortnite is one of many video games which is played competitively as an ‘esport.’ In summer 2019, there w
schoolboy, Jaden Ashman, won the second prize in the first Fortnite World Cup. Jaden and his 21-year-old Dutch game partner, Dave Jong, shared a prize of 2.25 million
wasting his time on the game.
The company sells a lot of game-related products, such as branded clothes and action figures. Players can buy additional features for the game with Fortnite’s own curr
popular additional feature is silly dances for the characters. Many people copy the game’s dances in real life. There are numerous videos of people doing these dances on Y
There are concerns about Fortnite. Parents and teachers worry about how much time children spend playing the game when they should be doing schoolwork. Some be
bucks, but V-bucks can be bought with real money. There are many reports of children spending their parents’ money on the game without permission. Although the game
it is too violent for children. After all, the Battle Royale mode involves killing other player’s characters with guns and other weapons.
Lesson Aims:
✓ To extend and practise productive use of vocabulary for talking about computer games and associated topics.
✓ To further develop reading skills through short reading activities on skimming and intensive reading.
, 1. Vocabulary Pre-Teaching Planning Table
✓ In this table, show ten items from the text to pre-teach. The table is not a handout for the students.
✓ Read 'Advice on Approaching Assignment A' before you begin work on this table.
✓ Maximum word count for the vocabulary table: 700 words, including the wording already on the template
Meaning How Meaning will be Conveyed
Concept Questions
Item to Students, including Language- Grammatic
(if needed)
(General definition) Graded Definition
1 modes A particular way of operating, Demonstrate putting a computer Q. What are some different modes your Countable (three…
(singular: mode) living, or behaving into sleep mode, then back into mobile phone has? (‘Battle Royale’ mo
wake mode, while explaining A. Silent, power-saving
what you’re doing
Definition: the way a piece of
equipment is set to perform a
certain job
2 weapons Objects like knives, guns, or Show picture of the games- Q. Who might carry weapons? Countable noun (B
(singular: weapon) bombs, used for fighting or related weapons included in A. Police, soldiers, criminals
attacking somebody/something Section 2 Q. What type of weapons do police use?
with the intention to disable, hurt A. Guns, tear gas
or kill Definition: items used to fight,
injure, or kill someone/something
3 survive To continue to live or exist longer Act out being attacked/knocked Q. What would you need to survive on a Intransitive verb (B
than somebody/something, down and then desert island?
especially after almost dying or recovering/getting up and A. Water, food, a house Survive is transitiv
being destroyed, to outlive escaping eg survive the acci
Definition: to stay alive, not to
die
4 competitively In a way that is as good as or Elicit and explain word, teach See Section 3 Adverb (B2)
better than others, in a way that pronunciation, and concept
Text 2 – Lower Intermediate
✓ This part of the assignment focuses on stage 2 of a lower-intermediate reading lesson.
✓ You should show what you would do for the vocabulary pre-teaching stage of the lesson.
✓ Include any references necessary in the bibliography template. See 'Referencing' document for advice on what is required.
✓ Read 'Advice on Approaching this Assignment' before you begin work on this template.
✓ Class: Lower intermediate (B1), 13 young learners, age range 12-14.
These students attend EFL classes because their parents are keen for them to have extra English lessons in addition to what their state schools provide. M
but you have found you can engage them if you make the lessons fun and interesting.
Fortnite – a pleasure or a problem?
Fortnite is an online video game made by a company called Epic Games. Players can fight enemies, collect materials and items, and make buildings. The game has three di
called ‘Battle Royale’. In a battle royale, players start with no items, and collect weapons and other equipment as they play. Players try to remove other players and surviv
one hundred players. The last player left alive is the winner.
Fortnite is extremely popular. It came out in 2017 and now has hundreds of millions of players. And Epic Games has made hundreds of millions of dollars. Celebrities, s
people have become celebrities because they play the game. Fortnite is one of many video games which is played competitively as an ‘esport.’ In summer 2019, there w
schoolboy, Jaden Ashman, won the second prize in the first Fortnite World Cup. Jaden and his 21-year-old Dutch game partner, Dave Jong, shared a prize of 2.25 million
wasting his time on the game.
The company sells a lot of game-related products, such as branded clothes and action figures. Players can buy additional features for the game with Fortnite’s own curr
popular additional feature is silly dances for the characters. Many people copy the game’s dances in real life. There are numerous videos of people doing these dances on Y
There are concerns about Fortnite. Parents and teachers worry about how much time children spend playing the game when they should be doing schoolwork. Some be
bucks, but V-bucks can be bought with real money. There are many reports of children spending their parents’ money on the game without permission. Although the game
it is too violent for children. After all, the Battle Royale mode involves killing other player’s characters with guns and other weapons.
Lesson Aims:
✓ To extend and practise productive use of vocabulary for talking about computer games and associated topics.
✓ To further develop reading skills through short reading activities on skimming and intensive reading.
, 1. Vocabulary Pre-Teaching Planning Table
✓ In this table, show ten items from the text to pre-teach. The table is not a handout for the students.
✓ Read 'Advice on Approaching Assignment A' before you begin work on this table.
✓ Maximum word count for the vocabulary table: 700 words, including the wording already on the template
Meaning How Meaning will be Conveyed
Concept Questions
Item to Students, including Language- Grammatic
(if needed)
(General definition) Graded Definition
1 modes A particular way of operating, Demonstrate putting a computer Q. What are some different modes your Countable (three…
(singular: mode) living, or behaving into sleep mode, then back into mobile phone has? (‘Battle Royale’ mo
wake mode, while explaining A. Silent, power-saving
what you’re doing
Definition: the way a piece of
equipment is set to perform a
certain job
2 weapons Objects like knives, guns, or Show picture of the games- Q. Who might carry weapons? Countable noun (B
(singular: weapon) bombs, used for fighting or related weapons included in A. Police, soldiers, criminals
attacking somebody/something Section 2 Q. What type of weapons do police use?
with the intention to disable, hurt A. Guns, tear gas
or kill Definition: items used to fight,
injure, or kill someone/something
3 survive To continue to live or exist longer Act out being attacked/knocked Q. What would you need to survive on a Intransitive verb (B
than somebody/something, down and then desert island?
especially after almost dying or recovering/getting up and A. Water, food, a house Survive is transitiv
being destroyed, to outlive escaping eg survive the acci
Definition: to stay alive, not to
die
4 competitively In a way that is as good as or Elicit and explain word, teach See Section 3 Adverb (B2)
better than others, in a way that pronunciation, and concept
