Assignment A – Teacher Language
Instructions
This part of the assignment is set to enable us to assess your language grading, eliciting and
concept checking.
You must show:
a) The language you would use for presenting 3 of your selected vocabulary items that could
not be explained using only pictures.
b) The instructions you would give for one of your two reading tasks.
Present what you would say in dialogue form to include some expected student responses.
Convoys
- T: What do we call a group of people standing one behind the other facing in the same direction?
- S1 : I think we call that a line?
- T: Yes, very good. We call a group of people standing one behind each other , facing in the some direction
a line. What would you call it if you have a line of vehicles, all facing in the same direction , all following
each other?
- S2 : Bad traffic! (Class all laughs)
- T: Yes Kim ,that would be bad traffic, (teachers smiles at the class) but the word I am looking for is the word
that describes more than one vehicle following each other, traveling in the same direction usually with
one goal.
- S3 : Would that be like the president travelling with all his guards in cars behind and in front of him?
- T: That is correct. The president travels in convoy. When you have a group of cars travelling together you
say they are travelling in convoy. The plural of convoy is convoys (more than one).
- T: Now can you all tell me how many syllables does the word convoy have?
- S1 : Two syllables.
- T: That’s correct, well done! Now can anyone tell me what type of word convoy is? A verb or a noun?
- S3 : I would say it’s a noun Ma'am, because it’s a word to identify something.
- T: That’s correct, good work! Do you all remember we said that when a word is a noun that in most
cases the stress falls on the first syllable. So in this case do you all agree the stress would fall on con?
Class: Yes ma'am!
- T: Good work. Now tell me class if I used the word "to" in front of convoy would that change the meaning?
Look at these two sentences. (Teacher writes sentences on the board)
Sentence 1: We are travelling to our destination in convoy.
Sentence 2: I am going to convoy the president to his destination.
Can you see in that in sentence 1 convoy is a noun, but in sentence 2 it is a verb?
Can you all see how the word changes?
Class: Yes, ma'am
- T: Let’s all say "convoy" together. Remember your emphasis needs to be on the first syllable.
Class: Convoy!
- T: So tell me class, if we look out the window and see a bunch of cars on the highway travelling in the same
direction, do we call it a convoy? Anyone?
- S4 : No we don’t ma'am because they are just going in the same direction.
- T: Correct Yen, a line of cars on a road going in the same direction is just traffic, just like Kim said earlier.
Cars going in the same direction that are associated with each other for example going to the same place,
protecting someone or following each other to a certain point is called a convoy.
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Instructions
This part of the assignment is set to enable us to assess your language grading, eliciting and
concept checking.
You must show:
a) The language you would use for presenting 3 of your selected vocabulary items that could
not be explained using only pictures.
b) The instructions you would give for one of your two reading tasks.
Present what you would say in dialogue form to include some expected student responses.
Convoys
- T: What do we call a group of people standing one behind the other facing in the same direction?
- S1 : I think we call that a line?
- T: Yes, very good. We call a group of people standing one behind each other , facing in the some direction
a line. What would you call it if you have a line of vehicles, all facing in the same direction , all following
each other?
- S2 : Bad traffic! (Class all laughs)
- T: Yes Kim ,that would be bad traffic, (teachers smiles at the class) but the word I am looking for is the word
that describes more than one vehicle following each other, traveling in the same direction usually with
one goal.
- S3 : Would that be like the president travelling with all his guards in cars behind and in front of him?
- T: That is correct. The president travels in convoy. When you have a group of cars travelling together you
say they are travelling in convoy. The plural of convoy is convoys (more than one).
- T: Now can you all tell me how many syllables does the word convoy have?
- S1 : Two syllables.
- T: That’s correct, well done! Now can anyone tell me what type of word convoy is? A verb or a noun?
- S3 : I would say it’s a noun Ma'am, because it’s a word to identify something.
- T: That’s correct, good work! Do you all remember we said that when a word is a noun that in most
cases the stress falls on the first syllable. So in this case do you all agree the stress would fall on con?
Class: Yes ma'am!
- T: Good work. Now tell me class if I used the word "to" in front of convoy would that change the meaning?
Look at these two sentences. (Teacher writes sentences on the board)
Sentence 1: We are travelling to our destination in convoy.
Sentence 2: I am going to convoy the president to his destination.
Can you see in that in sentence 1 convoy is a noun, but in sentence 2 it is a verb?
Can you all see how the word changes?
Class: Yes, ma'am
- T: Let’s all say "convoy" together. Remember your emphasis needs to be on the first syllable.
Class: Convoy!
- T: So tell me class, if we look out the window and see a bunch of cars on the highway travelling in the same
direction, do we call it a convoy? Anyone?
- S4 : No we don’t ma'am because they are just going in the same direction.
- T: Correct Yen, a line of cars on a road going in the same direction is just traffic, just like Kim said earlier.
Cars going in the same direction that are associated with each other for example going to the same place,
protecting someone or following each other to a certain point is called a convoy.
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