Assignment A
Text 2 – Lower Intermediate
This part of the assignment focuses on stage 2 of a lower-intermediate reading lesson.
You should show what you would do for the vocabulary pre-teaching stage of the lesson.
Include any references necessary in the bibliography template. See 'Referencing' document for advice on what is required.
Read 'Advice on Approaching this Assignment' before you begin work on this template.
Class: Lower intermediate (B1), 13 young learners, age range 12-14.
These students attend EFL classes because their parents are keen for them to have extra English lessons in addition to what their
state schools provide. Many of them resent having to come to language school, but you have found you can engage them if you
make the lessons fun and interesting.
Fortnite – a pleasure or a problem?
Fortnite is an online video game made by a company called Epic Games. Players can fight enemies, collect materials and items,
and make buildings. The game has three different versions, known as 'modes'. The most popular mode is called ‘Battle Royale’.
In a battle royale, players start with no items, and collect weapons and other equipment as they play. Players try to remove
other players and survive until the end of the game. A Battle Royale begins with up to one hundred players. The last player left
alive is the winner.
Fortnite is extremely popular. It came out in 2017 and now has hundreds of millions of players. And Epic Games has made
hundreds of millions of dollars. Celebrities, such as the rapper, Drake, play the Battle Royale mode. Other people have become
celebrities because they play the game. Fortnite is one of many video games which is played competitively as an ‘esport.’ In
summer 2019, there was a lot of attention in the British media when the 15-year-old schoolboy, Jaden Ashman, won the second
prize in the first Fortnite World Cup. Jaden and his 21-year-old Dutch game partner, Dave Jong, shared a prize of 2.25 million US
dollars. Jaden's mother said she always tried to stop him wasting his time on the game.
The company sells a lot of game-related products, such as branded clothes and action figures. Players can buy additional
features for the game with Fortnite’s own currency; ‘V-bucks,’ which they can earn as they play the game. A popular additional
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, feature is silly dances for the characters. Many people copy the game’s dances in real life. There are numerous videos of people
doing these dances on YouTube and other websites.
There are concerns about Fortnite. Parents and teachers worry about how much time children spend playing the game when
they should be doing schoolwork. Some believe that it is addictive. Items in the game are bought with V-bucks, but V-bucks can
be bought with real money. There are many reports of children spending their parents’ money on the game without permission.
Although the game is colourful and has a lighthearted style, some adults feel that it is too violent for children. After all, the Battle
Royale mode involves killing other player’s characters with guns and other weapons.
Lesson Aims:
To extend and practise productive use of vocabulary for talking about computer games and associated topics.
To further develop reading skills through short reading activities on skimming and intensive reading.
Lesson Outline:
These children are not keen on reading, but quite enjoy learning new vocabulary and interactive games.
You have decided to place more focus on the vocabulary and speaking activities and will allocate timings roughly as follows:
1. Lead into topic (warmer) - 10 mins
2. Vocabulary pre-teaching (Presentation and short practice task) - 25 mins
3. First reading - 4 mins
4. Second reading - 9 mins
5. Follow-on activity (communicative speaking task) - 12 mins
You need to select 10 vocabulary items for pre-teaching and show how you would present two of those items in stage 2.
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, 1. Vocabulary Pre-Teaching Planning Table
In this table, show ten items from the text to pre-teach. The table is not a handout for the students.
Read 'Advice on Approaching Assignment A' before you begin work on this table.
Maximum word count for the vocabulary table: 700 words, including the wording already on the template
Pronunciation
How Meaning will be
IPA transcription
Meaning Conveyed to Students, Grammatical and Concept Questions
Item AND
(General definition) including Language-Graded Other Information (if needed)
word stress
Definition
pattern
Fight To oppose or struggle I would explain by saying this is Verb No need /faɪt/
against someone. something armies do when It can also be a noun.
they go to war.
After (hopefully) eliciting, I will
give an example:
In Fornite you have to fight
the other players in order to
win.
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, How Meaning will be Pronunciation
Meaning Conveyed to Students, Concept Questions Grammatical and IPA transcription
Item
(General definition) including Language- (if needed) Other Information AND
Graded Definition word stress pattern
Enemy A person who hates or I would show a picture of Real Is enemy the opposite Countable noun /ˈen.ə.mi/
opposes another person. Madrid and Barcelona and of friend? Stress: Ooo
ask if the two teams are The plural form ends in
friends. –ies, because the
After (hopefully) eliciting, I singular noun ends in
will give an example: consonant+y.
Real Madrid and F.C.
Barcelona are enemies on
the football pitch.
Battle A sustained fight I would show a picture of T: Is battle something Countable noun /ˈbæt.əl/
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, between large organized Battle Royale logo and ask positive or negative? Stress: Oo
armed forces for the name. After Class: Negative.
eliciting, I will give an T: Maria, why is that?
example: Maria: In a battle, there
are armed forces and
The enemies fight in a
people are killed.
battle in Battle Royale.
Items Things, objects or pieces I would ask them to mention No need Plural noun /ˈaɪtəms/
that can be part of a list. some objects they have on Stress: Oo
their desks: book, notebook,
etc. Then I would ask for
another way to name objects,
maybe using the word things
and then, hopefully elicit
items.
Next, I would give an
example:
You have many items on
your desks.
Version Something with is slightly I would start with the T: When you have a Countable noun /ˈvɜː.ʃən/
different. synonyms ‘’type’’, ‘’kind’’ and new game release Stress: Oo
ask how do you call an which has more
improved game that is a bit features than a
different from the last one. previous one, can we
After eliciting, I would give an say that this is an
example: improved version?
The latest version on Fornite is
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, more interesting.
Graded Language
Definition for B2:
a particular form of
something that
is slightly different from
other forms of the same
thing (Cambridge
Dictionary).
Mode A version of something I would start with the noun No need Countable noun /məʊd/
phrase ‘’different type of’’; I
would then ask how do you
call the option on the mobile
phone that you use during a
flight?
After eliciting Airplane mode,
I would give an example:
Please put your mobile
phones on silent mode.
Graded Language Definition
for C1: a way
of operating, living,
or behaving (Cambridge
Dictionary).
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Text 2 – Lower Intermediate
This part of the assignment focuses on stage 2 of a lower-intermediate reading lesson.
You should show what you would do for the vocabulary pre-teaching stage of the lesson.
Include any references necessary in the bibliography template. See 'Referencing' document for advice on what is required.
Read 'Advice on Approaching this Assignment' before you begin work on this template.
Class: Lower intermediate (B1), 13 young learners, age range 12-14.
These students attend EFL classes because their parents are keen for them to have extra English lessons in addition to what their
state schools provide. Many of them resent having to come to language school, but you have found you can engage them if you
make the lessons fun and interesting.
Fortnite – a pleasure or a problem?
Fortnite is an online video game made by a company called Epic Games. Players can fight enemies, collect materials and items,
and make buildings. The game has three different versions, known as 'modes'. The most popular mode is called ‘Battle Royale’.
In a battle royale, players start with no items, and collect weapons and other equipment as they play. Players try to remove
other players and survive until the end of the game. A Battle Royale begins with up to one hundred players. The last player left
alive is the winner.
Fortnite is extremely popular. It came out in 2017 and now has hundreds of millions of players. And Epic Games has made
hundreds of millions of dollars. Celebrities, such as the rapper, Drake, play the Battle Royale mode. Other people have become
celebrities because they play the game. Fortnite is one of many video games which is played competitively as an ‘esport.’ In
summer 2019, there was a lot of attention in the British media when the 15-year-old schoolboy, Jaden Ashman, won the second
prize in the first Fortnite World Cup. Jaden and his 21-year-old Dutch game partner, Dave Jong, shared a prize of 2.25 million US
dollars. Jaden's mother said she always tried to stop him wasting his time on the game.
The company sells a lot of game-related products, such as branded clothes and action figures. Players can buy additional
features for the game with Fortnite’s own currency; ‘V-bucks,’ which they can earn as they play the game. A popular additional
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, feature is silly dances for the characters. Many people copy the game’s dances in real life. There are numerous videos of people
doing these dances on YouTube and other websites.
There are concerns about Fortnite. Parents and teachers worry about how much time children spend playing the game when
they should be doing schoolwork. Some believe that it is addictive. Items in the game are bought with V-bucks, but V-bucks can
be bought with real money. There are many reports of children spending their parents’ money on the game without permission.
Although the game is colourful and has a lighthearted style, some adults feel that it is too violent for children. After all, the Battle
Royale mode involves killing other player’s characters with guns and other weapons.
Lesson Aims:
To extend and practise productive use of vocabulary for talking about computer games and associated topics.
To further develop reading skills through short reading activities on skimming and intensive reading.
Lesson Outline:
These children are not keen on reading, but quite enjoy learning new vocabulary and interactive games.
You have decided to place more focus on the vocabulary and speaking activities and will allocate timings roughly as follows:
1. Lead into topic (warmer) - 10 mins
2. Vocabulary pre-teaching (Presentation and short practice task) - 25 mins
3. First reading - 4 mins
4. Second reading - 9 mins
5. Follow-on activity (communicative speaking task) - 12 mins
You need to select 10 vocabulary items for pre-teaching and show how you would present two of those items in stage 2.
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, 1. Vocabulary Pre-Teaching Planning Table
In this table, show ten items from the text to pre-teach. The table is not a handout for the students.
Read 'Advice on Approaching Assignment A' before you begin work on this table.
Maximum word count for the vocabulary table: 700 words, including the wording already on the template
Pronunciation
How Meaning will be
IPA transcription
Meaning Conveyed to Students, Grammatical and Concept Questions
Item AND
(General definition) including Language-Graded Other Information (if needed)
word stress
Definition
pattern
Fight To oppose or struggle I would explain by saying this is Verb No need /faɪt/
against someone. something armies do when It can also be a noun.
they go to war.
After (hopefully) eliciting, I will
give an example:
In Fornite you have to fight
the other players in order to
win.
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, How Meaning will be Pronunciation
Meaning Conveyed to Students, Concept Questions Grammatical and IPA transcription
Item
(General definition) including Language- (if needed) Other Information AND
Graded Definition word stress pattern
Enemy A person who hates or I would show a picture of Real Is enemy the opposite Countable noun /ˈen.ə.mi/
opposes another person. Madrid and Barcelona and of friend? Stress: Ooo
ask if the two teams are The plural form ends in
friends. –ies, because the
After (hopefully) eliciting, I singular noun ends in
will give an example: consonant+y.
Real Madrid and F.C.
Barcelona are enemies on
the football pitch.
Battle A sustained fight I would show a picture of T: Is battle something Countable noun /ˈbæt.əl/
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, between large organized Battle Royale logo and ask positive or negative? Stress: Oo
armed forces for the name. After Class: Negative.
eliciting, I will give an T: Maria, why is that?
example: Maria: In a battle, there
are armed forces and
The enemies fight in a
people are killed.
battle in Battle Royale.
Items Things, objects or pieces I would ask them to mention No need Plural noun /ˈaɪtəms/
that can be part of a list. some objects they have on Stress: Oo
their desks: book, notebook,
etc. Then I would ask for
another way to name objects,
maybe using the word things
and then, hopefully elicit
items.
Next, I would give an
example:
You have many items on
your desks.
Version Something with is slightly I would start with the T: When you have a Countable noun /ˈvɜː.ʃən/
different. synonyms ‘’type’’, ‘’kind’’ and new game release Stress: Oo
ask how do you call an which has more
improved game that is a bit features than a
different from the last one. previous one, can we
After eliciting, I would give an say that this is an
example: improved version?
The latest version on Fornite is
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, more interesting.
Graded Language
Definition for B2:
a particular form of
something that
is slightly different from
other forms of the same
thing (Cambridge
Dictionary).
Mode A version of something I would start with the noun No need Countable noun /məʊd/
phrase ‘’different type of’’; I
would then ask how do you
call the option on the mobile
phone that you use during a
flight?
After eliciting Airplane mode,
I would give an example:
Please put your mobile
phones on silent mode.
Graded Language Definition
for C1: a way
of operating, living,
or behaving (Cambridge
Dictionary).
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