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COMPONENT
LANGUAGE TASK NO. 4
Date Set:
May 8, 2015
Date Handin:
Marker:
June26 2015
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I Raquel Romero Rivas, declare that the following C1-T4 Samples of spoken
English of the Teacher is entirely my own work and that it is written in my own
words and not those copied directly from any other source, except for those that
are properly acknowledged.
Signature
_______________________________
Raquel Romero Rivas
INTRODUCTION
Peter James states that Two important pre-conditions for change are that educational system
in which teachers are working actively promotes change, and that teachers themselves are
ready to and want to change. Teachers must recognize a need to change, as it cannot be
successfully imposed by others. Genuine change in a teachers knowledge, skills and
attitudes is also a long process, in effect, career-long, and not confined to an all too often
short training programme. (Peter James, p. 9) I agree with James because during
generations Teachers have had an important role in peoples life. Our students believe in us,
that is why we have to be prepared every day in order to improve our language skills. It is
very important we recognize our errors and evaluate ourselves in order to be better teachers
for our students.
In this task, I will analyse on both positive and negative aspects of the language I have used
in terms of its accuracy and appropriacy for teaching a lesson. I cited six of my classroom talk
that I used and describe the context in which the language was used.
I. CLASS PROFILE
My class consist of 34 students between 9 and 10 years old. There are 17 girls and 17 boys.
They have an average A1-A2 level of English according to the CEFR.
Some of them are familiar to English as they have practiced English every day for two hours
and they make a big effort for communicating their thoughts accurately in English.
On the other hand, some others seem to be afraid or disinterested because learning English
has been difficult for them. For few ones, this school year was their first contact with English.
These students tend to use Spanish to communicate their ideas adequately rather than make
an effort to express accurately in English.
Most of the group is motivated and enthusiastic towards learning English, which is an
enormous advantage. Some students are visuals, like technology, visual aids, enjoy listening
to music, play games, work on manual activities and work in teams. A few students are shy
and introverted, for them it is not easy to participate, and work in teams or express orally.
II. BRIEF LESSON OUTLINE
The main objective of the class was the learners will express what a person is wearing. I
greeted the students, then asked them to take out their notebooks, in order to outline the
silhouette of a person, either a boy or girl, up to them. After that, I gave them instructions in
order to dress that person. As I was giving the instructions, I was drawing it on the board.
Once the students finished this activity some students show me their drawings. Then I
projected a video Real English 38 Wearing in the video there was a reporter asking
different people what they were wearing, in this video the students could see different options
and how to answer to this question, after some minutes I paused the video and asked the
students to describe what the people was wearing. Some of them had difficulties when they
wanted to use the colour, I correct at the moment of speaking. After that, the learners solve
some consolidation exercises. Finally, I asked the students to colour their own person with
clothes and describe it. They worked on their notebooks.
III. CORRECT SAMPLES
3.1 LEXIS
Context: After greeting the learners, I started to give instructions in order to work with the
warm up.
Sample: once I greeted the learners I asked them to pay attention.
as teacher improve our speaking. This task was really useful for me. I considered I am going
to record my classes at least once a week because a want to have a better fluency and
correct my errors at the moment of speaking and every day, these errors can be less every
day. I learned it is so important not have mistakes when we are speaking since the students
learn through us and they trust us.
Total Words 1157
BIBLIOGRAPHY
* TEACHERS IN ACTION, Task for inservice language teacher education and
development, Peter James, Cambridge University Press, 2001
*TEACHING BY PRINCIPLES, AN INTERACTIVE APPROACH TO LANGUAGE
PEDAGOGY-H. Douglas Brown, San Francisco State University; 2000; 2nd edition
Longman