Teaching IELTS Assignment
Your name: Date of submission:
F 19-05-2022
Analyse the information in the class summary. What are your learners’ strengths and weaknesses?
(max. 100 words)
As a group; these learners' combined strength lies in their mutual motivation to migrate to English speaking countries, either for employment
or for education purposes. Another strength that they are share is the skill for reading, with a majority of them being high up on the band list,
at a number 7 grade.
Their assumed weakness could be that each of them originate from different countries; however, this can play to their advantage in the long
run as the sharing of culture could be an opportunity to build a sense of rapport.
In terms of skills; their weaknesses lie in the other three skills because they are in need of more improvement within those areas.
Which two skills have you chosen to teach in this lesson? Why? (minimum 150 words)
For this lesson; I chose to focus on teaching the skills, speaking and writing to my students. These skills are two of the lowest that students
are performing in, so I wanted to focus on them in order to raise their individual bands.
Another reason that I chose to focus on these skills is because while I was looking into difficulties that my students have in relation to learning
English; I found that a majority struggle with problems related to pronunciation and the written form of English, as it differs from their L1s
in some ways.
To give a bit more context, allow me to provide a few more examples. Take a Chen for instance, while his L1 (Chinese) focuses on tone and a
difference of pitch regarding a particular word, English focuses on intonation in that it does not have a specific tone for each word used.
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, Teaching IELTS Assignment
Which lesson topic have you chosen? Why? (minimum 100 words)
I have chosen to focus on Health and Fitness because it has been a popular market in the last few years. A mlarge majority of people are
prioritizing their health, and maintaining a balanced diet. For that reason, I chose to focus on health and fitness as a lesson topic.
In order to be more specific though; I chose to look at exercise within this larger group. My themes within this topic focus on the types of
exercise, the idioms found within the category of exercise, as well as the popular debate of whether cardio or strength training are the better
exercise. This last portion is something I saved until the end of the lesson so that my students will have a essay topic for homework that will
cause them to dive in deeper to the world of health and fitness and be able to create their own perspectives surrounding the field as a whole.
Lesson Aims: Lesson Outcomes:
By the end of the lesson, students will be better able to… By the end of the lesson, students will have…
● Understand the vocabulary related to the different types of ● Identified their stance or preference on the debate of which
exercise. exercise is better (cardio vs strength strength training-
● Practice and perfect their pronunciation of English words and assuming that they don't prefer to do both types of exercise.)
their overall speech. ● Expressed their ideas in a written form using correct
● Develop their perspectives on a particular topic in written grammar and organization
form. ● Adopted more advanced and varied vocabulary that they can
apply to their IELTS exam in order to portray their
sophistication whilst speaking English.
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Your name: Date of submission:
F 19-05-2022
Analyse the information in the class summary. What are your learners’ strengths and weaknesses?
(max. 100 words)
As a group; these learners' combined strength lies in their mutual motivation to migrate to English speaking countries, either for employment
or for education purposes. Another strength that they are share is the skill for reading, with a majority of them being high up on the band list,
at a number 7 grade.
Their assumed weakness could be that each of them originate from different countries; however, this can play to their advantage in the long
run as the sharing of culture could be an opportunity to build a sense of rapport.
In terms of skills; their weaknesses lie in the other three skills because they are in need of more improvement within those areas.
Which two skills have you chosen to teach in this lesson? Why? (minimum 150 words)
For this lesson; I chose to focus on teaching the skills, speaking and writing to my students. These skills are two of the lowest that students
are performing in, so I wanted to focus on them in order to raise their individual bands.
Another reason that I chose to focus on these skills is because while I was looking into difficulties that my students have in relation to learning
English; I found that a majority struggle with problems related to pronunciation and the written form of English, as it differs from their L1s
in some ways.
To give a bit more context, allow me to provide a few more examples. Take a Chen for instance, while his L1 (Chinese) focuses on tone and a
difference of pitch regarding a particular word, English focuses on intonation in that it does not have a specific tone for each word used.
1
, Teaching IELTS Assignment
Which lesson topic have you chosen? Why? (minimum 100 words)
I have chosen to focus on Health and Fitness because it has been a popular market in the last few years. A mlarge majority of people are
prioritizing their health, and maintaining a balanced diet. For that reason, I chose to focus on health and fitness as a lesson topic.
In order to be more specific though; I chose to look at exercise within this larger group. My themes within this topic focus on the types of
exercise, the idioms found within the category of exercise, as well as the popular debate of whether cardio or strength training are the better
exercise. This last portion is something I saved until the end of the lesson so that my students will have a essay topic for homework that will
cause them to dive in deeper to the world of health and fitness and be able to create their own perspectives surrounding the field as a whole.
Lesson Aims: Lesson Outcomes:
By the end of the lesson, students will be better able to… By the end of the lesson, students will have…
● Understand the vocabulary related to the different types of ● Identified their stance or preference on the debate of which
exercise. exercise is better (cardio vs strength strength training-
● Practice and perfect their pronunciation of English words and assuming that they don't prefer to do both types of exercise.)
their overall speech. ● Expressed their ideas in a written form using correct
● Develop their perspectives on a particular topic in written grammar and organization
form. ● Adopted more advanced and varied vocabulary that they can
apply to their IELTS exam in order to portray their
sophistication whilst speaking English.
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