Saturday 7 November 2015

Post CPE Lesson 5

Presentation - Peanuts

Language Training

  • Expressions with get, prepositions and particles (Gold, p. 120)
  • Sentence transformation exercise (Gold, p. 164) - it's high time we did, shed light on, floods of complaints, lose no time in doing something, in the short term.
Vocabulary

Corrections
I speak/write a good English
better would be:
I speak/write English well


Discussion - Language Learning and Tests
  1. Compare and contrast your experiences learning Italian and learning English
  2. What do your remember about your classes at school? 
  3. How was writing taught at school?
  4. What is different about studying a language as an adult?
  5. Do you think it is important to learn language terminology (e.g. the names of tenses)? When studying your own language? When studying a foreign language?
  6. What should be the main aim of a language test?

References
Nicky Morgan is the U.K.’s Secretary of State for Education
Key Stage 2 refers to the national curriculum for school years 3 - 6 in England in Wales (7 to 11 year olds)
Spag = spelling, punctuation and grammar

Vocabulary
to keep in mind
to stack up
to turn up 

Reading
What are Michael Rosen’s criticisms of the test? Do you agree?
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/nov/03/morgan-grammar-test-right-answer-spag-english-spelling-punctuation-grammar?CMP=fb_gu


Going Further
(1) Take a look at the test discussed in the article. Do you agree with the comments made by Michael Rosen?
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/439299/Sample_ks2_EnglishGPS_paper1_questions.pdf
(2) Horrible Histories

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