Module teaching and integrating language skills lesson 1

Activity 1. Quiz


Quiz: Searching
1.

Natasha takes her students to the computer room to use Internet materials on a regular basis. She wants to use some Internet based materials with her intermediate level class in a lesson teaching the present perfect tense. What should Natasha do to look for suitable materials? Use Google to search for suitable materials. First decide on the type of materials she’ll look for: grammar explanations, practice exercises or a video/listening activity to introduce the topic. Ask colleagues if they can recommend any useful sites. Конец формы

2. Natasha decides to look for a video resource to introduce the grammar topic of the present perfect tense. How can she find something suitable?

	Use Google to search for “present perfect”.
	Use YouTube to search for present perfect.
	Use Yahoo! to search for present perfect.

3. Natasha teaches a class of teenagers just about to start their university studies. She wants to encourage these learners to become more autonomous in their language learning. She has reserved the computer room for a lesson with this class. What should she do?
Put in order:

1. 
   then telling them that they will report back to the whole group on what they discovered
   
2. 
   distribute these to pairs of learners
   
3. 
   give them free access to the computers for 40 minutes
   
4. 
   draw up instructions for three research projects
   

4.Natasha wants to use the Internet with her advanced class to study the use of a selection of ten phrasal verbs that the group have been introduced to recently. How should she do this?

	Explain how to use a search engine such as Google to check usage examples and ask them to use this technique with the ten verbs.
	Prepare a list of links to advanced vocabulary practice exercises.
	Ask the learners to search for the verbs in two online dictionaries.

5. Natasha has asked her class to do a research project on famous people of the twentieth century.
What would be a good idea to do first?

	Allow the students free access to the internet to collect their research
	Provide a list of websites that the students are restricted to.
	Do a short lesson on evaluating websites with her students.