Vocabulary

1.- Some techniques are more popular than others. What are they, and can you account for their popularity?

The most popular techniques are definition, description and examples, I think it is because that is the easiest and fastest way to teach vocabulary, provides basic information such as meaning or a simple example easy to understand for students.

2.- Are there techniques that are particularly appropriate for the presentation of certain types of words?

Absolutely yes for example when we speak of the precise and detailed definition of a word fully describe how you can make when talking about objects, places, etc. .. This is a good technique to use.

3.- Are there techniques which are likely to be more, or less, appropriate for particular learner populations (young/adult, beginner/advanced, different background cultures)?

Yes and this is important to consider if we want to teach a new vocabulary to students is essential to take into account their age, level of English you have, if they belong to different cultures, etc. Because according to all these factors will influence how they learn, because it will be easier for some than for others. For example on the issue of age is common in young children in a range of 8 to 12 years is much easier to teach through pictures or songs, that is, by totally didactic activities. And the other hand for adults probably is easier to acquire a new vocabulary by reading appropriate to a context and interesting and advanced topics.

4.- Do you, as an individual, find that you prefer some kinds of techniques and tend to avoid others? Which? And why?

Yes I do, of course, as we all think that there are some technical and others prefer to avoid, starting with the ones I prefer are illustration and Job Description are teaching techniques and we know that it is necessary to capture the attention of children especially when wanting to acquire a new vocabulary and what better than to talk about one word not enough with only one definition, but we show them a picture, and passes this image may also be accompanied by a good description to complement, and the otherwise the I avoid a bit is to provide a single definition having the possibility to accompany a good example.

 

  

Lesson Plan Template "PRONUNCIATION"

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Teaching literature assigment.

With my partner Denise did an activity for students of 1º Medio and the presentation is this::

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 Well the activity that we chose was "Discussion director" part of Literature Circles. 

we chose this activity because we believe it is the most suitable for children to achieve to have a good reading, also need fun activities, other than common practice activities. Students will develop their creativity share and work together with peers. In the first part of the activity, students should form groups of four and read the story and then everyone must answer questions from the study guide that will be provided to each group.


Now here's the lesson plan http://www.mediafire.com/?ihyp5cayi6186ds 

 As we mentioned before we focus on 1º Medio, because we believe that this text "The Landlady" has a broader vocabulary that they can then use in other situations. Furthermore it is clear that more works, and is good for them because this will help them to develop their skills and reading Speech course.

Supplementary materials.

Materials.

Today in class we analyzed a book called " Super Surprise 4 " Class book and Activity book, this is used in 4º básico  here we have the outcome to this analysis :

1. 1.     Objectives explicitly laid out in an introduction, and implemented in the material.

Grade:  6

I think this criteria is essential, because the professor needs something like a guide, and this book to contain.

1. 2.    Approach educationally and socially acceptable to target community.

Grade: 7

This book approach to students to the real world, places like a home, school, and others, this is fundamental to know and learn words.

1. 3.    Clear attractive layout; print easy to read.

Grade: 7

It’s appropriate and necessary has a nice and attractive images and print easy to read to facilitate the work and learn the student.

1. 4.    Appropriate visual materials available.

Grade: 7

It’s like I mentioned previously, is fundamental to have attractive and funny pictures, so that the students will be interested.

1. 5.    Interesting topics and tasks

Grade: 6

The topics are very interesting totally adequate to children, i.e. funny stories, and topics about games etc.  

1. 6.    Varied of topics and tasks, so as to provide for different learner levels, learning styles, interests, etc.

Grade: 6

Each item is suitable for each different level covering topics of interest to.

7. Clear instructions.

Grade: 7

The instructions are totally clear and easily understood by children, also uses a simple language.

 8.    Systematic coverage of syllabus.

Grade: 7

This nook is divided into units specifically mentioned.

9.    Content clearly organized and graded (sequenced by difficulty).

Grade: 7

The level of difficulty of the book advances as necessary, and students needs.

10.  Periodic review and test sections.

Grade: 6

At the end of each unit, students have to perform an activity that sums up the purchased

Content and measure the learning of each.

11.  Plenty of authentic language.

Grade: 5

The language is common as in all books of English, in this case is necessary use of vocabulary adequate to each level.

12.  Good pronunciation explanation and practice.

Grade: 6

The book present different instances to develop this ability speak, children practice their pronunciation.

13.  Good vocabulary explanation and practice.

Grade: 6

The vocabulary is appropriate and put into practice in any activity conducted

14.  Good grammar pronunciation and practice.

Grade: 7

It’s good the manner of presented the grammar and the use too.

15.  Fluency practice in all four skills.

Grade: 7

The four skills are developed fully, students are able to speaking, reading, writing and listening in English, what is ideal for learning a second language such as English.

16.  Encourages learners to develop own learning strategies and to become independent, in their learning.

Grade: 5

It’s not has diversity in teaching methods, which does not allow students to be motivated to want learn or create your own techniques or learning methods.

17.  Adequate guidance for teacher; not too heavy preparation load.

Grade: 6

The teacher has a book guides them to do activities, with simple indications and easy to understand. I think is important for the teacher have something like a support.

18.  Audio cassettes (CD’s).

Grade: 7

It’s really very helpful to have support materials as in this case have a CD which has fun stories, songs, etc. and is a good tool to engage children with the content being taught.

19.  Readily available locally.

Grade: 6

It’s easily to obtain this book to students, not expensive.

The Syllabus

The order warns Syllabus and course structure, i.e. the planning class to class to be used, this document is essentially a list of content that will be taught throughout the course, besides this are some of the objectives, prerequisites, grades, namely the evaluation system to use to accomplish this, materials are another important factor to consider, this refers for example to textbooks and various other technology-related. The topics are providing throughout a Schedule.

The goals set at the beginning are that later will or not included as the course progresses. It also discusses the evaluation system to perform on the course, for example by examination, work projects or class to class, to notice a steady progress. 
All this will be considered at the time of the evaluator were well used to analyze whether the methods used at the time of dealing with content. the learning schedule.

Here are the 10 types of syllabus:

1.      Grammatical: Different Grammatical structures (relative clauses, comparison f adjectives, etc.)
2. 2.    Lexical: A list of lexical items usually associated with collocations and idioms and divided into graded sections.
3. 3.    Grammatical-lexical: Common kind of syllabus it’s a mixture of both grammar and lexical syllabuses.
4. 4.    Situational: In these cases the syllabuses take the real life contexts of language uses, i.e. “In the street”.
5. 5.    Topic-based: Covers several topics.
6. 6.    Notional: Language concepts and vocabulary.
7. 7.    Functional-notional: Refer to things that we can do with language.
8. 8.    Mixed or “multi-strand”: Refers to the syllabus but more advance and specific with improvements in grammar and vocabulary.
9. 9.    Procedural: specifies the learning tasks.
10. 0. Process: This is the only one who is subject to change throughout the course.