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Assessment for Learning Resource Bank Web-based Learning and Teaching Support

Learning and Teaching Activity -Mind Your Own Words

Learning objectives:

Text Types
  • Dialogues
Vocabulary
  • Euphemism (e.g. plain looking: ugly, sacrifice: kill, between jobs: unemployed, seniors: old people, custodian: cleaner/janitor, droppings: excrement, remains: dead body, surveillance: close watching, marketing representative: salesman, obesity: fat, slim: thin, passed on,pushing up daisies, at rest: death, reception centre: immigrant detention camp)
Language Items and Communicative Functions
  • Use euphemistic expressions to give descriptions of processes and situations
Language Skills
  • Reading
  • -make use of knowledge of the world to make sense of the written text
    -identify implied meanings through inferencing
  • Listening
  • -identify key ideas in a conversation
    -extract information and ideas in spoken texts
Attitudes
  • develop independence and a commitment to lifelong learning through undertaking self-access language learning both inside and outside classroom
Generic Skills
  • Problem solving skills

Relevant Basic Competency Descriptors:

L6-R-1-S3BC Using an increasing range of strategies to understand the meaning of texts with some degree of complexity (IS, KS, ES)

L5-L-2-S3BC Using an increasing range of strategies to understand the meaning of simple texts on familiar and less familiar topics which are delivered clearly and in generally familiar accents (IS, KS, ES)

L6-W-2-S3BC Writing a variety of texts using punctuation marks, and a range of vocabulary and language patterns with some degree of appropriacy and accuracy to convey meaning (IS, KS, ES)

Level of Difficulty

3

Preliminary to S3BC (at S1 level)

To S3BC (at S1 to S2 Level)

At S3BC (at S3 Level)

Activity Description Suggested duration (minutes) Available for self - learning?
Part 1
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Interactive Activity 1: Listen Beyond the Surface
Students are asked to listen to a conversation and answer the comprehension questions by deducing word meanings and implied meanings from the context.
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Interactive Activity 2: Euphemism Quiz
Students are asked to choose the most suitable explanation for the euphemistic expressions
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Part 3
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Writing Activity: Mind Your Own Words
Students are asked to rewrite sentences by using expressions which are more polite, pleasant or less offensive.
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Key Stage 3 Targets:

To develop an ever-improving capability to use English:

KSc- To identify ideas in spoken and written texts, form opinions and express them
KSf- To understand how the English Language works in relation to basic differences between formal and informal contexts and how different texts are organized and expressed; and apply this understanding to one's learning and use of language
ESb- To make predictions and inferences from spoken and wirtten texts