Assessment for Learning Resource Bank
Web-based Learning and Teaching Support
Learning and Teaching Activity - Mind Your Own Words

　

Learning Targets for Key Stage 3:

　

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

　

Learning Objectives:

Text Types

Vocabulary

Language Items and Communicative Functions

Language Skills

Attitudes

Generic Skills

-Dialogue

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)

Use euphemistic expressions to give descriptions of processes and situations

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

 

Writing

- rewrite sentences to set a more polite and gentle tone

develop independence and a commitment to lifelong learning through undertaking self-access language learning both inside and outside classroom

Problem solving skills


Relevant Basic Competency Descriptors:

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
L6-R-1-S3BC: Using an increasing range of strategies to understand the meaning of texts with some degree of complexity

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


Level of Difficulty

--Preliminary to S3BC (at S1 Level)

　

--To S3BC (at S1 to S2 Level)

　

--At S3BC (at S3 Level)

　

Activity

Description

Duration (min)

Available for Self Learning

Part 1

 

 

Tapescript

Self Evaluation Form

 

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

 

Self Evaluation Form

 

Interactive Activity 2: Euphemism Quiz
Students are asked to choose the most suitable explanation for the euphemistic expressions

15

Part 3

  

Activity Sheet

 

Suggested Answers

Self Evaluation Form

 

Writing Activity: Mind Your Own Words
Students are asked to rewrite sentences by using expressions which are more polite, pleasant or less offensive.

30