Microsoft Word Lesson plans Year doc

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Lesson Plans Year 2

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  In example 5 there is a pronunciation mistake. The learner has used the long [i:] sound when she should have used the short [i] sound. The learner should have said ‘The dog [bit] me’.
  
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  In example 6 there is a pronunciation mistake. The learner has stressed the final syllable of the word happened, making it into a three-syllable word when it is in fact pronounced as a two-syllable word [‘h p nd].
  

Appropriacy

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  Example 2 contains an example of inappropriate language. Although Example 2 is accurate, there is a problem with Appropriacy. It is rude to say ‘Shut up!’ in the classroom. The learner should have said ‘Can you be quiet, please?’, or something similar.
  

Activity 2 Sources of mistakes
Objective: to raise students’ awareness of sources of mistakes
Time: 30 minutes
Materials: Handout 2
Procedure:

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  Ask students the following question:
  

~ There are two main reasons why learners make errors. Can you think what they are?

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  Elicit random answers and write students’ responses on the board. Accept all answers at this point.
  
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  Distribute handout 2 and invite students to read the text on the role of errors and find out sources of errors.
  
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  Write down the following terms on the board: interference, developmental error, fossilised error, overgeneralization, interlanguage.
  
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  Check students’ understanding of these terms and provide examples.
  

Suggested answers:
Influence from the learner’s first language (L1) on the second language is called an interference or transfer.
A developmental error is made by learners when they are unconsciously working out and organizing language, and this process is not yet complete.
Fossilised errors are errors which a learner does not stop making and which last for a long time, even for ever, in his/her foreign language use.
Errors in which learners wrongly apply a rule for one item of the language to another item, are known as overgeneralization.
The learners’ own version of the second language which they speak as they learn is known as an interlanguage.

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  Distribute handout 1 and ask students to do the task. They have to match the statements with types of mistakes.
  

Answers: 1C, 2A, 3A, 4B, 5C, 6A, 7B, 8B.