YOUNG LEARNERS

TEFL YOUNG LEARNERS

WRITING ASSIGNMENT (TDI)

Leonardo Antonio Moreno Barreto

Design

First of all I think that supplementary materials are so important to develop a class because, it will help us to reinforce our classes. Additionally, these supply students with Security, fun, success, belonging and choices during the activities presented in class.

One supplementary activity that I’d like to use in class could be: Tick Tock (story-telling). The purpose of this is to ‘expose’ the children to more examples of meaningful language. The supplementary materials for this lesson could be the preparation of pictures to support the meaning of the story (on slides or flashcards) and the possibly to bring in a real clock and a sock, for step 3 of the activity.

STORY-PRIMARY

Step Time (minutes) Procedures Aims / Purpose

One 1min T; “Listen! Here’s a story…” (&/or whatever routine has been established to get the children into story mode) “about a clock. What sound does a clock make? Yes, ‘tick tock’. And that’s the name of this story. Listen” To prepare the children to understand and enjoy a story.

Two 1 mins T. tells the story, showing pictures as appropriate, and maintaining eye-contact with the students (supplementary materials) To provide ‘exposure’ to meaningful language – and an enjoyable experience

Three 3 mins T: “Now you – all of you – are the clock“

Teacher ‘conducts’ the students until everyone is making a rhythmic continuous quiet ‘tick tock’ – then tells the. story again leaving the class to speak the ‘tick tocks’/clock’s role, and ‘conducting’ the class to increase the volume in line two, and stop at the end of line 5.

To repeat the ‘exposure’ while involving the students

To summary my point, this is an easy but effective way to develop a class, following the suggestion activities in the textbook but additionally with the supplementary materials that the teacher can use to increase students’ motivation through variety, making lessons livelier, interesting and noticing problems and identify student needs.

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