Task 2 - Idenifying Teaching Methods
Task 2 - Idenifying Teaching Methods
Label each description of the lesson below with one of these methods:
a) Audio Lingual Method
b) Grammar -Translation Method
c) Task-based Language Teaching
d) Communicative Language Teaching
e) Direct Method
LESSON 1
The teacher:
- presents a new dialogue (writes it on the board and reads it aloud); students listen
- the whole class repeats the dialogue (repetition drill) several times, after the teacher’s model.
Sometimes the teacher uses back chaining.
- To practise the dialogue, students take on one role while the teacher takes on the other role.
Then two halves of the class practise the dialogue. Finally, two students are invited to perform
the dialogue before the class.
- The teacher conducts single-slot substitution drill in which the students repeat a sentence from
a dialogue and replace a word or phrase in the sentence with a word or phrase the teacher gives
them. This word or phrase is called the cue.
T: I am going to the post office
T: (cue) she
Ss: She is going to the post office
T: Good. (cue) we
Ss: We are going to the post office
T: Very good.
- Next, the teacher conducts a transformation drill; in which students transform an affirmative
sentence into a negative or interrogative sentence. Correct answers often receive praises
(Good! excellent! well done!…).
T: She’s going to the station
Ss: She isn’t going to the station
T: Well done!
- The teacher returns to the previous dialogue, repeats it once, and has two halves of the class
perform the dialogue again.
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LESSON 2
The teacher sets up a situation creating a need for students to communicate. For example, she
teaches students to use ‘ Going to ‘ for future plans, through the following steps:
1. She elicits 4 holiday destinations in Vietnam and puts them on the board:
e.g. Ha Long Bay Hue
Dalat Cantho
2. She gets students to tell her what they can do in each destination and writes their suggestions
on the board:
e.g. Ha Long Bay - take a boat trip
Dalat - go for a walk
Hue - visit the Citadel
Cantho - see the floating market
3. Students then write their own sentences on a slip of paper by completing this sentence stub:
I’m going to ________ in _______
4. Students play Guessing Game with the sentences they have written.
e.g. S1: Are you going to take a boat trip in Ha Long Bay?
S2: No, I’m not…
5. In groups, students design their own holiday plans for each destination. The teacher uses the
following table to help structure their group work discussion:
place Which month ?How long for ? How (bus/car etc.)?Stay where ?Clothes? Activities?
Ha Long June 1 week minibus hotel Swim suit Boat trip
Hue
Dalat
HCM City
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LESSON 3
This is a 90-minute lesson plan teaching reading a literary text and using a grammar point ( L1:
Vietnamese; L2: English).
LESSON 4
Unit 1
Getting started
Stimulus: The teacher:
- shows a video clip of Michael Jackson music performance (1 minute) and ask ss some
leading questions: Who was the singer? Do you like him? Why?
- shows the photos of Donald Trump and Steve Jobs, Yan can Cook and ask students to list
the names of these persons and other famous ones they know.
Driving question:
- “Whom do you admire and want to know more about his/her life”
Project objectives:
- Read for a specific information
- Write famous person’s profile
- Present the information about a famous person
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Project products:
- A video clip/ ppt slides
- an oral presentation
- A written report about a famous person