Little Victories

FInal Scenario E

Lesson Plan: Suppose you are being considered for the position of EFL instructor in a private, intensive English Language school.  You have been asked to present a one-hour lesson to a beginning class.  The Director is interested in a lesson, which integrates the four skills.  You are free to choose your own topic of theme as well as any grammatical structures and vocabulary you may wish to cover.  Design a one-hour lesson plan, which you would use to teach this class.  Give details regarding the specific activities as well as the time allocated for each.  Explain your choice of activities and the sequence in which you would conduct them.  Describe any materials that you would choose.

FInal Scenario D

You are approached by a gentleman who is seeking advice about language learning.  He wants a tutor that would help him achieve his desire to become fluent in a second language. He is 62 years old and has been living in the country of his target language for 26 years and is somewhat discouraged that he has not made enough progress.  He has already taken many second language courses from various institutions ranging from university intensive language programs to adult evening programs.  However, these days, he feels that he is undisciplined and would like a tutor that could help him create a second language learning regimen to finally achieve fluency.  Although he still wants to become fluent, he is discouraged that he might be ‘too old’ to learn much anymore as his friends in the education field has told him.  He wants to hire you to be his tutor.  Create a detailed language learning regimen to help him achieve his goal of fluency that matches his particular situation.  Be specific enough to show a typical weekly schedule for him.

FInal Scenario C

There is a book that has just reached the top five best-sellers list in the country of Morcadia.  It is written by a very successful second language learner.  The book claims to give a guaranteed method for learning a second language.  It proposes five steps: Day 1, Watch one movie in your target language one time.  During the movie, write down key dialog as you hear it.  Day 2, memorize the dialogs and say them out loud as if you are having a conversation with a real person.  Day 3, identify key words and phrases and look them up in the dictionary if you don’t know the meaning. Memorize these meanings. Day 4, make new sentences with the words you memorized on Day3.  Read them out loud many times.  Day 5, watch the movie again and speak along with the dialogs you studied.  Is this a viable method for language learning?  Why or why not?  Discuss in detail each point made above.

FInal Scenario B

There is a veteran EFL/ESL teacher who has been using a combination of GTM and ALM in her classes for 18 years.  She just received instructions from her school administrator that she now needs to teach ‘Communicative Competence’ in her courses.  She comes to you desperately asking for advice. 

1. How much of your advice needs to be theoretical and how much of your advice needs to be practical and why?

Final Scenario A

You are asked to teach an intermediate level EFL/ESL course.  You have 45 students enrolled.  Most of the students have different majors.  They are all around 20-27 years old.  They are roughly half male and female.  The course name is “Practical English”. The class meets twice a week for 2 hours each class.

1. Name any method/s you would want to use for this class.

2. Describe in detail what you would teach in the two hours of a typical class.

3. Give your reasons for using the method/s outlined above. Justify your choices.