Module teaching and integrating language skills lesson 1

b. Students decide whether they need to cut or add information to their text and review the paragraphing.
c. If the topic of the text voices a personal opinion, students should write alone. However, if the topic is not personal, students could write in pairs or small groups.
d. Students look at the teacher’s language feedback and change the grammar and vocabulary if necessary.
e. The teacher encourages the students to use mind maps and provides articles that might be of use.
f. This can be word processed for the sake of final presentation.
g. The teacher asks the students to discuss and note down who will read the text and what the reader will need to do as a result of reading the text.
h. One pair should exchange their draft with another pair. The teacher can monitor and make suggestions.
Answers: 1) e 2) g 3) a 4) c 5) h 6) b 7) d 8) f
Activity 5. For questions 1-5, match the situations with the kinds of feedback listed A-C
1. The teacher notices that all the students are having problems with the new language. She notes the problem down and discusses it later with the students.
A. peer feedback
В. teacher feedback to the class
С. teacher feedback to an individual
2. A young student has just finished talking to the class about his hobby. The teacher says: Thank you very much. That was very interesting.'
A. feedback on language
В. feedback on attitude
С. feedback on ideas
3. A teenage student has written a story for homework. The teacher has written: This is so much better than last week's homework. Well done.'
A. specific instructions on what to do
В. identifying problems
С. encouragement
4. The teacher writes on the first draft of a student's composition: 'Look at this website for more ideas.
A. feedback on grammatical mistakes
В. instructions on planning
С. help with using reference resources
5. The teacher is talking to a group of primary-school children at the end of a group work activity. She says: 'You talked a lot today and I was pleased to see everyone working so well together.'
A. feedback on pronunciation
В. feedback on behaviour
С. feedback on progress


Activity 6. For questions 1-10, match the underlined mistakes in the student's composition with the types of mistake listed A-G. Mark the correct letter (A-G) on your answer sheet. You need to use some options more than once.

1. Last summer we went on a lovely holiday. All -family went

2. together to a house by the sea.. My family is horribly enormous
3. There were twenty o-f us, so we rented a really big house thai, was having
4. enough room for all o-f us, There were my brothers and, sisters,
5. my parents, my cosins and their parents. It wa.s great!
6. We had always someone to play with or something different to do - it
7. was such fun. Then In the evenings we cooked a, big dish
8. We all take it in turns to do the cooking and the washing up.
9. Sometimes the meals were -fantastic, but some which were horrible.
10. especially when brothers cooked chicken.