TEFL FULLCIRCLE END OF MODULE 6 ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

Choose the odd one out A Syllabus is a musical instrument. Planning a lesson is crucial to your success and planning will allow you to relax more and more and show your true personality and your real reasons for becoming a teacher, to help and guide others to learn English. True A good Lesson Plan will contain: Context, Structure and Practice. If another teacher was looking at your lesson plan, they would know exactly what was going to happen in your lesson. True Match the following statements with the Teaching Methodology. a) In this method students are immersed in English throughout the day in school. They are taught all subjects in English. b) In this approach the students are taught the most common used lexical chunks of words and structures. The idea is that common phrases are taught. c) With this approach, an activity is introduced first and students are expected to work out the rules themselves before it is explained by the teacher. This approach is often used in smaller classes. This approach allows for creativity in the lesson. d) A model pattern is introduced and often practised with drilling. However, context is added to the scenarios.Grammatical rules are learnt one at a time. e) In this method the teacher will say as little as possible and encourage students to create their own language prompted by physical objects. f) This approach is about purely communication using speaking and writing. Role play is used to enable students to practise real life situations. g) With this form of learning the students are given a task and try to work out the structure themselves. Often there is no formal instruction as students must find the solution themselves. h) Students have to memorise grammar rules and vocabulary and practise by translating sentences from their mother tongue into the foreign language. There is little time spent developing oral skills. i) This method advocates teaching in only the target language. This method also focuses on teaching oral skills and trying to have conversations and improving pronunciation. Writing and reading would be developed later. Grammar is learnt using the inductive approach j) This is a drilling method where a student listens and then repeats. Students will practise different dialogues for different situations. k) This approach uses all of the teaching methods and uses styles which suit learners and different levels. l) With this approach the concept or rules are introduced and then they are applied to an activity. This approach is often used in larger classes. This approach is also quite traditional in its nature a) Immersion b) Lexical Approach c) Inductive d) Structural-Situational e) Silent Way f) Communicative g) Task Based h) Grammer-Translation i) Natural Method j) Audio-Lingual k) Eclectic l) Deductive The Presentation - Practice - Production technique has 3 important elements which are: Context Structure Practice True You will have to tailor-make each of your lessons to meet the needs of your learners. True The age of your learners will have direct impact on the activities you choose in the lesson. True Try to match the content taught in a lesson with the level of the learners. Please note that this is a rough guide to the material used in the classroom because many classes will be mixed. a) Subject Pronouns: I, he, she, we, you and they Question words: what, who, where and how? b) Verbs: Modal verbs: I can/can't and I must/mustn't Present perfect tense c) Conditionals Gerunds and infinitives Present perfect continuous Past perfect tense d) Third conditional Reported speech Modal verbs in the past e) Verbs: Present simple in the positive and the negative. Past simple Future simple Adverbs: Adverbs of frequency, which include sometimes and usually f) Question tags Future perfect continuous Phrasal verbs Vocabulary to include the following: Idioms like "he kicked the bucket" a) Beginner b) Pre- Intermediate c) Intermediate d) Upper Intermediate e) Elementary f) Advanced With the following statements choose whether they are an advantage or disadvantage when One to One Teaching. a) The learner has the chance to ask more questions. b) More chance to discuss themes and give more feedback. c) The learner's needs can be fully addressed and often will learn more. d) Timing of the lesson could potentially be a problem. e) Many learners feel more comfortable learning a language with a group. f) There is little opportunity to interact with other learners. a-c) Advantage d-f) Disadvantage With the following statements try to determine whether each one would be an advantage or disadvantage when teaching small classes. a) More space to move around the classroom b) In smaller classes you can give more attention to your students and its easier to do fun activities. c) Student centred as they are likely to have more time to speak. d) Some activities are not suitable for small classes. e) Sometimes a teacher can run out of activities. a-c) Advantage d-e) Disadvantage With the following statements try to determine whether they would be an advantage or disadvantage when teaching a large class. a) There is always someone who is willing to answer a question. b) Large classes allow you to use group work, pair work, team games and peer-to-peer marking. c) Preparation will take a long time if you have 40 students. d) Intimacy will be hard because it will take you a long time to get to know your students. a + b) Advantage c + d) Disadvantage The most natural way to handle classes with mixed abilities is to let students work in pairs or groups with high level students helping students at a lower level. True A Visual Learner will benefit from all of the following except: Dictation, Radio A Kinaesthetic Learner will benefit from all of the following except: Long tests and writing exercises An Auditory learner will benefit from all of the following except: This type of learner will struggle with reading and writing activities It's important to give your students a SMART objective at the start of the lesson. True Please match the statement with the Teaching Technique. a) A 3 Stage Technique that introduces a new item and uses activities to practise and produce. b) The focus of this technique is completion of a task by students and assistance by the teacher while students are working on a task. c) This type of technique is simply using a text book to guide learning. Most of the time students will have a course book to follow. It's important that you augment the book with some of your own activities. d) This technique is often very useful when you first meet a group of students for the first time. You will begin by giving students a test then assess their performance and teach items based on their performance. This will be followed by a test again to assess their understanding of the item. e) In this technique the teacher will set a number of activities and guide students to find the correct information. Often you can use this technique with research work on the Internet. a) Presentation - Practise - Production b) Task Based Learning c) Text Based Learning d) Test - Teach - Test e) Teacher as a Facilitator