Integrated task
Choose a text (dialogue or monologue) from an English language course-book (indicate the author, year of publication, title, publisher and pages)
Describe the textual material (level of difficulty, primary, secondary or tertiary level students, topic)
Indicate what grammar from the text can be used for teaching
Specify what vocabulary and expressions from the text can be used for teaching
Clarify what information from the text can be used for teaching
Answer the following questions:
A/ Is the text interesting and motivating for learners?
B/ Is the text authentic-like and why?
C/ Is the text comprehensible?
D/ Is text grammar easy for learning?
E/ Is text vocabulary easy for learning?
F/ Are expressions from the text worth memorising?
G/ Does the text provoke a discussion?
H/ Can this text be turned into a role-play?
I/ Would you like to improve this text in any way (make it easier or more difficult, add more vocabulary, focus on a certain grammar etc)?
Can you recommend this text for using in language teaching and why? On what conditions?
Answer keys
Warming-up discussion 0
(Tips: 1D In a way this s true 2F Partly human languages have arisen from the animals’ calls and cries and still have exclamations and interjections. 3F Language grammar appeared some 60 years ago and its fundamental structure has not changed since. 4F Animals can acquire only rudiments of the human language and never use it for communication between themselves or teach it to offspring. 5T 6T 7T Language is a non-random system because all the known languages have some universal features in common) (After Harley, T. 1997. P. 5-10; Aitchison, J. 1999. P. 24-26; Chomsky, N. 1980. Rules and Representations. Oxford: Blackwell. P. 57).
SAQ 1.1
Tips: 1B 2C 3F 4G 5D
Exploratory task 1.1
1 do not smoke, 2 as well as, 3 was, 4 station was, 5 start school, 6 who, 7 have lived, 8 make mistakes, 9 such terrible, 10 interested, 11 for two years
Exploratory task 1.2
1C 2E 3B 4A 5D
Exploratory task 2.1
Tips: 1 on the telephone asking to wait a little, 2 in the pub warning that it’s 10.45 p.m., 3 in the expensive clothes shop, 4 in an invitation to a party, 5 in an e-mail message, 6 calling for caution and hope, 7 congratulating on a birthday, 8 asking for the order at a restaurant, 9 at a shop, 10 at any public place where repairs are being done, 11 at home asking somebody to open the door to a caller
Exploratory task 2.5
A2 B1 C3
Exploratory task 2.8
1 time that you spend away from work without permission, 2 kiss with the tongues touching, 3 thin pieces of potatoes fried in oil, 4 white bread in the form of a thick stick, 5 a sandwich served with a clear beef soup into which the sandwich is dipped, 6 piece of bread put in a mixture of egg and milk and then fried, 7 a pair of glass doors opening into a garden or a balcony, 8 the courage that one gets from drinking alcohol, 9 sharing the cost of a get-together, 10 no wind at all 11 the idea that in the USA everyone has a chance of becoming rich
Exploratory task 2.10
1C 2K 3E 4G 5I 6A 7J 8H 9F 10D 11B
Exploratory task 2.11
1B 2D 3C 4F – cookery book 5A 6E – endless story, 7G
Exploratory task 2.12
All the traits tend to produce a negative impression
Exploratory task 2.14
1C 2A 3B
Exploratory task 2.19
1C 2B 3A
Exploratory task 2.20
1I 2H 3G 4F 5E 6D 7C 8B 9A