Follow-up Materials

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

Preliminary to S3BC (at S1 level)

To S3BC (at S1 to S2 Level)

At S3BC (at S3 Level)

Activity	Description	Suggested duration (minutes)
Part 1 Preview Download	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.	20
Part 2 Preview Download	Interactive Activity 2: Euphemism Quiz Students are asked to choose the most suitable explanation for the euphemistic expressions	15
Part 3 Preview Download	Writing Activity: Mind Your Own Words Students are asked to rewrite sentences by using expressions which are more polite, pleasant or less offensive.	30

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