ICELT C1-1 GUIDELINES

IN-SERVICE CERTIFICATE IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING

COMPONENT 1 - LANGUAGE FOR TEACHERS

TASK 1 - Reading and Presentation

Task outline

You are required to:

• select, read and make a summary in note form of a reading source that is relevant to an audience of peers on the course

• give a brief ten-minute oral presentation of the selected reading source to your peer group, and include two discussion questions that are relevant to the text or topic being presented.

The presentation will be assessed by the course tutor(s).

Guidelines

1. Select a reading source that you feel is interesting and useful to other course members. The reading text can be taken from a practical teaching magazine, an extract from a book or an academic journal (e.g. ELT Journal) or an internet source. The source text or extract should not be longer than 1,000 – 1,500 words and must have professional relevance.

2. Produce a summary in note form of the main ideas or argumentation of the text. You may use diagrams or tables to summarise the main ideas in the extract or article you have chosen. You may include one or two short quotations from the reading source in your presentation. Make sure you can explain or exemplify any technical terms or concepts in the article / extract.

3. Prepare two questions on your selected text which will be useful to stimulate discussion of key aspects of the text with your peer group.

4. Give an oral presentation of your selected source to your peer group using your notes from stage 2 above. Try to introduce and contextualise the topic presented. The aim of the presentation is to facilitate your audience’s understanding of the main points / issues and to use accurate oral language, as well as pronunciation and prosodic features (stress, juncture and intonation) to good effect.

5. After your oral presentation of the reading source, use your discussion questions (stage 3) to initiate a brief discussion of the points selected.

NOTE: You should hand in a referenced copy of the original text and your summary to your course tutor(s)

General Assessment Criteria

PASS level assignments will show that the candidate can:

Accuracy

1a understand and identify main ideas and implications of the source text

1b use clear, generally accurate English for oral presentation and discussion

questions

Range and Flexibility

1c employ sufficient lexical range and flexibility to convey the content of the

source text without distortion

1d use appropriate professional-to-professional discourse

Pronunciation

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