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This PowerPoint presentation is designed to support the Passages textbook Unit 2a ‘Education and Learning’ on pages 10, 11.

The teaching materials include:

1. A PowerPoint presentation
2. A Student worksheet
3. A link to a website for an interactive quiz
4. This teacher’s notes page

You can use these materials in a number of ways, for example to introduce the topic or to review the topic. It is important though, that you go through the different slides first to familiarize yourself with the presentation.
The teacher’s notes sheet provides more information on how to use this material.

As with previous PowerPoints, you will need a computer in the class. Additionally, there is an interactive quiz to reinforce the grammar focus (p. 11). For this you will need the FLSC if you choose to do this part of the presentation.
These materials will also be available in the Level 3 binder.

The PowerPoint Presentation
Passages unit 2A PowerPoint.ppt

The Teacher’s notes
Passages Unit 2A Teacher’s notes.doc

The Student worksheet
Passages unit 2A Worksheet.pdf

This activity has been designed for Level 2 Unit Three topic ‘Hobbies’. There is a worksheet for students to do along with my self-introduction on the ELP homepage.

The self-introduction movie for this worksheet reviews Unit Two vocabulary (about personalities) and introduces Unit Three vocabulary (hobbies).

A suggested way for students to use the materials is:

1. Watch the video once to understand the general meaning.
2. Do the exercises on the worksheet from what can be remembered from the video and from what can be guessed by looking at the context.
3. Check the answers by watching the video again. (Students can work at their own pace and stop/ replay the video at any time.)

Ideally this is an FLSC/Computer room activity. So perhaps after Golden Week?? Alternatively, students could do this activity as homework. Just print off the sheet and have the students access the ELP homepage in their own time.

Click here for the worksheet
Level 2 Unit 3 Worksheet for ELP Movie

Here’s a quick activity to get students thinking about how to combine short sentences or clauses using ‘and’, ‘but’ and ‘because’ for their first paragraph.

It can either be used as a worksheet or you could make it more active by cutting up the sentences and distributing one half to some students and the other half to others. They should then look for their respective half and make a full sentence using one of the words above.

I have also added a note to the worksheet to dissuade them from using ‘and’ or ‘but’ at the beginning of a sentence.

Sentence combining worksheet

Cut up sentences

If you are extending the Chindogu (new product) activity, these handouts might help. One is a general reading passage about the Chindogu phenomonon. The second handout incorporates the pictures that are already available but provides a set pallette for creating a product name and description of 5 of the pictures.

Chindogu Reading Passage (adapted from Wikipedia)

Chindogu Reading Task Sheet

The aim of this material is to prepare EAP students for the writing task,

“If you could make one important change in a school that you attended, what change would you make? Use reasons and specific examples to support your answer”.

1. Students can first discuss the high school they went to.

2. They can then be shown a PowerPoint that contains a listening passage about my high school and the one thing I would change. In this they are first asked to listen for specific information. They can then listen again but this time with the text presented. Students can discuss the answers in pairs.

3. Discuss something they would change about their high school.

4. Students read attached worksheet that models an essay plan for the above topic and then use the same outline to prepare for their own essay.

The files

Click to download the PowerPoint file (.zip archive)

EAP Change in School Worksheet and Lesson Plan.doc

Purpose

Primarily, this song can be used through the semester at any level (although level 1 will need plenty of support) as a 15~20 minute activity to add variety to the class: three or four stanzas every week or two. It could also be used in the last class after feedback as a ‘fun’ activity.

• It can be used as a simple listening activity. Primarily, ~ing forms, unstressed syllables, prepositions are the focus of the listening.

• It can be used for pronunciation practice (the song has a powerful and simple rhythm).

• It can be used for performance. The song is full of actions and the people in it (four) can be played by students as the music plays (especially if you have Sobun students!).

• It can be used for comprehension practice.

• It can be a source of vocabulary (see Damian Fitzpatrick’s vocabulary self-assessment sheet) and to encourage out-of-class listening/practice.

• It can be used for anything!

filler activity pdf
Tom’s diner - mp3

An activity - spot the mistakes - to use at the start of class based on the main reading.

Start with a general question about the benefits/drawbacks of car journeys, followed by a specific question: How could car travel be improved?

Then, give out copies of the activity which has the following elements: pre-listening, listening, post-listening.

TT_1_Unit 3_Activity.pdf

Here is an additional worksheet for the listening in Passages Unit 2A on page 12.

The main aim is to give students a task to do whilst they listen to the CD again. Thus there is a purpose in playing the CD several times.

Copies of the worksheets are in the Level 3 binder.

Student’s worksheet.
Passages Unit 2A Listening student.doc

Teacher’s copy.
Passages Unit 2A Listening teacher copy.doc

Here is an additional worksheet for the listening in Passages Unit 1B on page 6.

The main aim is to give students a task to do whilst they listen to the CD again. Thus there is a purpose in playing the CD several times.

Copies of the worksheets are in the Level 3 binder.

Student’s worksheet.
Passages Unit 1B Listening.doc

Teacher’s copy.
Passages Unit 1B Listening teacher copy.doc

SHOPPING FOR GIFTS

This communicative task includes 3 exercises for students to do (in 2 pages of A4);
1. Dictation
2. Conversation Practice
3. Writing
It is designed to enforce speaking practice in the early semester.

Let’s Talk 5B Communicative Task.doc
Let’s Talk 5B Communicative Task.pdf

This PowerPoint presentation is designed to support the Passages textbook Unit 1B ‘Every family’s different’ on pages 6, 7.

The teaching materials include:

1. A PowerPoint presentation
2. A Student worksheet
3. A Teacher’s notes sheet
4. Speaking cards (There are two sets of these cards. They are on the Level 3 shelf.)

You can use these materials in a number of ways, for example to introduce the topic or to review the topic. It is important though, that you go through the different slides first to familiarise yourself with the presentation.
The teacher’s notes sheet provides more information on how to use this material.

The presentations require a computer and projector. Since we are unsure how soon the classrooms will be equiped with a computer, you can borrow one of the ELP laptops.
These materials will also be available in the Level 3 binder.

The Teacher’s notes document.
Passages Unit 1B.doc

The PowerPoint presentation.
Passages unit 1B.ppt

The Student Worksheet. (NB. This is a colour version. There is a black/white version in the binder on the shelf.)
Passages 1B worksheet.doc

Class sets of laminated picture cards matching Totally True, Exercise 5 are now available for Units 1, 2 and 3. Each set has 15 packs of 8 picture cards so teachers can choose to use them for pair work or, if there is demand, divide them up between classes on at the same time and use them in small groups.

How to Use the Cards

There were plenty of paper copies at the orientation, the files are on Secret Sensei, and you can find them on Shared Files if you are at Obirin, but for easy reference anytime and anywhere, here are links to the curriculum documents for Level 2, spring term, 2007.

07 Eigo I Instructor Notes Level 2.pdf
07 Eigo I Student Notes Level 2.pdf

If you have questions about the content of these notes, please don’t hesitate to ask any of the members of the Level 2 team. Suggestions are always welcome too.

This year, a Notebook has been added as an assessment for Level 2 Eigo IA. Worth 20% of the semester grade, this Notebook will consist of a mix of vocabulary, mind maps, and journal writing. It is up to the instructor to set the relative balance of these three tasks to suit the needs of the class. Some instructors may also ask students to attach worksheets inside the notebook, or keep other kinds of class notes in this Notebook as well.

Download the following documents for details, assessment, and examples.

• Get the Instructor Notes [PDF] for explanations, assessment ideas, and other details.
• Grab the Notebook Check Sheet [PDF] as a student self-assessment and tracking exercise with additional instructor feedback.
• And, finally, get the Notebook Example Mindmap for Let’s Talk Unit 3 [PDF] as an in-class activity and starter exercise.

This activity encourages students to learn/use the words they have written down in their vocabulary notebooks.

This is a modified version of something that a colleague, Dexter Da Silva, previously passed onto me and it can be adapted to suit any level and can be carried out as often as you wish.

The materials include the interview sheet and some instructions for the teacher.

Vocabulary: self-assessment sheet

Vocabulary: self-assessment sheet (teachers’ notes)

This interview activity can be used in the first class to help students get to know each other.

In addition, it can be used:
- with Unit 1a (p.3)
- to help with note taking skills
- to prepare for speaking test 1
- to help with basic writing skills

Feel free to add / delete questions and encourage the students to add their own examples.
The materials include the interview sheet and some instructions for the teacher.
Level 2 interview sheet
Level 2 interview sheet (teachers’ notes)

This PowerPoint presentation is designed to support the Passages textbook Unit on Friends and Family pages 2, 3.

The teaching materials include:

1. A PowerPoint presentation
2. A Student worksheet
3. A Teacher’s notes sheet

You can use these materials in a number of ways, for example to introduce the topic or to review the topic. It is important though, that you go through the different slides first to familiarise yourself with the presentation.
The teacher’s notes sheet provides more information on how to use this material.

The presentations require a computer and projector. Since we are unsure how soon the classrooms will be equiped with a computer, you can borrow one of the ELP laptops.
These materials will also be available in the Level 3 binder.

The Teacher’s notes document.
Passages Unit 1A.doc

The Student worksheet.
Passages 1A worksheet .doc

The PowerPoint presentation.
Passages unit 1A.ppt

These are short dictation activities that you may want to use to change the pace of a class, support lower level students or to introduce variety.

There are four activities:
1. A basic dictation activity taken from the back of Totally True 1
2. Fill in the gaps - key vocabulary
3. Fill in the gaps - articles, prepositions, connectors, unstressed syllables etc
4. Find the mistakes

These are based on the dictation activities, but the same principle can be applied to the main reading section at the start of each unit.

You may want to ask your students, individually or in pairs, to attempt to fill in spaces or guess the mistakes before the listening.

Richard Hawkins & Damon Brewster
TT1 Dictation Activities Spring.doc

For Levels One and Two, Participation Grade is worth ten percent of the students’ grades for both Eigo IA (Listening and Speaking) and Eigo IB (Reading and Writing). Specifically, the Participation Grade has been sub-divided into English Use, Classroom Participation, and Classroom Behaviour. To ensure the Participation Grade encourages students to meet the course goals of improving their English and enhancing their study skills, it is important that learners receive updates on their Participation Grade progress during the semester. The handout in this posting should be given to the students. Learners should review their own performance, and get feedback from their teacher. The Participation Grade should not simply be used as reward/punishment that is only introduced at the end of the semester.

Participation Grade Handout

Translated Participation Grade Handout

Level 2 Writing Task 1 :DESCRIBE A PERSON

AIM
This task requires students to write a paragraph about a person they know.

ACTIVITIES
There are 4 activities and the rubric for this task (activity 4 is optional). Each has a teacher version with an answer key. Each activity is self-explanatory, so please check the instruction on each activity.

teacher notes.pdf
rubric.pdf
L2 W task1 activity1.pdf
L2 W task1 activity2.pdf
L2 W task1.activity3.pdf
L2 W task1 activity4.pdf

SAMPLE PARAGRAPHS
There are two sample paragraphs included in the activities: broad and focused. The broad type is aimed at lower level 2 students and the focused type is for more proficient students. For an advanced group, both types could be used. Please use whichever sample you think will match your class.