Celta Assignment 2:Skills -Related Task
Cambridge CELTA
Written Assignment Two
Skills –related tasks
Word count: 1082
I acknowledge that this paper is my own work.
Trainee: Mileva Genadieva
Signature:
Date: 18.02.2013
Receptive skills:
According to J. Harmer in his book The Practice of English Language Teaching, “receptive skills are the ways in which people extract the meaning from the discourse they see or hear”. In the following text “Playing with your food” the main skill that is being practiced is reading and along with it other sub-skills are being developed such as practicing new vocabulary, reading for gist in order for the students to understand the main idea.
Enhancement of receptive skills will increase the rate at which students comprehend English language and allow students to practice new vocabulary in its context from the text.
1. Generating students’ interest in the topic of the text.
The teacher gives the students a picture of a vegetable and then a musical instrument and then writes the title of the text on the board, “ Playing with your food”. The teacher then asks students to take some time and make predictions what they think the text will be about. After that some of their ideas will be listed on the board.
Rationale: This activity will help students predict the topic and prepare for the vocabulary that might be used in the studied text.
2. Reading for gist.
The teacher will then ask the students to read the text quickly for a couple of minutes after which they will be asked if any of their predictions, from the listed of the board, were mentioned in the text. After discussing the text briefly students will be asked to read and answer the questions in Ex.1 (see attached exercise worksheet) in order to check if they have understood the general idea of the text.
After checking their answers the teacher will ask the students “What is the main idea of the text?”, “ Is this something that you would try yourself?”.
Written Assignment Two
Skills –related tasks
Word count: 1082
I acknowledge that this paper is my own work.
Trainee: Mileva Genadieva
Signature:
Date: 18.02.2013
Receptive skills:
According to J. Harmer in his book The Practice of English Language Teaching, “receptive skills are the ways in which people extract the meaning from the discourse they see or hear”. In the following text “Playing with your food” the main skill that is being practiced is reading and along with it other sub-skills are being developed such as practicing new vocabulary, reading for gist in order for the students to understand the main idea.
Enhancement of receptive skills will increase the rate at which students comprehend English language and allow students to practice new vocabulary in its context from the text.
1. Generating students’ interest in the topic of the text.
The teacher gives the students a picture of a vegetable and then a musical instrument and then writes the title of the text on the board, “ Playing with your food”. The teacher then asks students to take some time and make predictions what they think the text will be about. After that some of their ideas will be listed on the board.
Rationale: This activity will help students predict the topic and prepare for the vocabulary that might be used in the studied text.
2. Reading for gist.
The teacher will then ask the students to read the text quickly for a couple of minutes after which they will be asked if any of their predictions, from the listed of the board, were mentioned in the text. After discussing the text briefly students will be asked to read and answer the questions in Ex.1 (see attached exercise worksheet) in order to check if they have understood the general idea of the text.
After checking their answers the teacher will ask the students “What is the main idea of the text?”, “ Is this something that you would try yourself?”.