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Language Awareness
ICELT group level

Materials

Abc cut-up questions
Abc Tricky language
Abc Analyzing a tense

Main Aims

  • Trainees will be focusing on the topic of language awareness; what does it mean and how do teachers and students acquire it.

Subsidiary Aims

  • Expose trainees to different forms and get them analyze language points they might use in their classes.

Procedure

Lead-in/Warmer (5-8 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage trainees

- Group trainees to form three groups of four. - Get each group a definition to fill in. -Check with them to start the session. - Discuss in groups the meaning of the definition and analyze it.

Exposure (3-5 minutes) • To draw students' attention to the target theme

-Trainees will get three jumbled questions and will be asked to arrange them. - Write the questions on the board. - Elicit the answers of the three questions. -why analyze --- to identify problems - what to analyze ----- meaning / form / use(function) - the difference (form- function)

Focus on Form (1-3 minutes) • To get trainees differentiate between forms and functions.

- write the example (I always drink coffee in the morning ) -Elicit the form, and the use (function)

Focus on form and function (10-15 minutes) • To help trainees differentiate between forms and functions.

- Give trainees (analyzing a tense) worksheet. - Get them do the activity in groups. - Monitor -Get feedback

Focus on form, function and meaning. (15-20 minutes) • Get trainees analyze different target points

- Get trainees in three groups of four - give each group a set of the same target language -ask them in groups to analyze the language form, meaning and function. -regroup to form three groups again each trainee with a different target point. -get trainees explain the meaning of the target language so the rest of the group guess the form, then they all decide the function. -get feedback.

Meaning analysis (5-10 minutes) • To get trainees think of different ways to convey meaning.

- Get each trainee a strip of paper - Ask them to read quietly, then make sure they understand the meaning of their sentences, and underline the words that signaled the meaning. - Trainees then need to paraphrase the sentences to explain the meaning and others should guess the exact words mentioned.

Focus on Teaching (10-15 minutes) • To get trainees think about analyzing target language in class.

- Get trainees in their new groups think about their own teaching -Ask them to share how they can help learners raise their language awareness. - Elicit ideas on the board. Discussion questions: Can we become better language users or learners or teachers if we develop a better understanding? And can we gain other advantages? How? -Suggest (Mad libs)

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