Revision: Week 1 of ESP @ ‘New Era’

Kate Elliott

New Era International Laboratory Secondary School

Current Affairs – Show and Tell – Any Questions

Monday – introductions to: selves, countries, and customs

Learning Activities:

Knowledge (content)

Skills

Values

Tuesday – Classroom ‘command’ phrases

We were introduced to commands for use during different phases of a lesson.

Ways that we rehearsed / ‘scaffolded’ them in-class on Tuesday:

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Which Dreyfus level are you at, when it comes to confidently using classroom commands?

Wednesday – Different genres of writing

Ways that we learnt about and practised four major genres of writing:

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Thursday – Templates for guiding thinking and writing

Thinking tools:

Planning tools:

Templates to support written response writing:

Tools for group-work exercises:

TODAY - JUNE 14

Hand-in a piece of writing on what you have learnt (narrative), what you are most interested in (descriptive), and what you wish to cover in the upcoming two weeks (informative).

PRACISE MAKES PERFECT

Task:Engaging in analytical thinking and public-speaking (UB vs. MEL)

PRACTISE MAKES PERFECT

WHEN MIGHT YOU REARRANGE THE DESKS IN YOUR CLASSROOM?

PRACTISE MAKES PERFECT

HOW CAN YOU ADD ENGLISH LANGUAGE WORDS AND PHRASES TO YOUR CLASSES?

PRACTISE MAKES PERFECT

HOW CAN WE MANAGE CLASSROOM BEHAVIOUR DURING GROUP-WORK ACTIVITY TIME?

MIND MAP OF THE COURSE SO FAR

this must be submitted today

(formative assessment)

THANK YOUAnd I wish you a refreshing weekend!

For instructions on creating ‘spider diagrams’, please go to this article from The Telegraph (UK Newspaper):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationadvice/9839678/Spider-diagrams-how-and-why-they-work.html