Assignment A – Vocabulary Teaching Table
✓Use this table to help you think about how you will teach the 12 vocabulary items you have selected from the 'What made me the way I
am' text for pre-teaching. Two examples are given to show you how to use it. The table is for the teacher, not the students.
✓For pronunciation, you may find one of these sites helpful: http://www.phonemicchart.com/transcribe/ https://easypronunciation.com/en/
english-phonetic-transcription-converter
Pronunciation Grammatical
How meaning will be (Transcription and Concept questions
No Item Meaning Word Stress
and other
conveyed to students (if needed)
Pattern) information
Background The kind of family you Starting by telling about
come from, you myself and everything that /ˈbækˌɡraʊnd/ I will ask some
experience of education, built my background. Noun students what are
living conditions, Where I am from, how I their backgrounds
1
culture etc… grew up etc… In a very Oo “So what’s YOUR
general way so the students background? Where
understand that everything are you from, how did
in my past constitute a you grow up, what
background. were your parents
situations…?”
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, Solstice Either of the I will show them a schema /ˈsɒl.stɪs/ Noun
two occasions in of the art and the sun and
the year when drill asking how it is called
the sun is directly above when the sun is either here
either or here, when it is at the Oo
the furthest point north or furthest from the earth
the furthest point south of
2 the equator that
it ever reaches. These are
the times in the year, in
the middle of
the summer or winter,
when there are
the longest hours of day or
night
3 Conventional Traditional and I will speak about /kənˈven.ʃən.əl/ Adjective I will ask the
ordinary
traditions, ask the oOoo students if they are
students if they are still thinking about
doing or practising anything
anything for generations, conventional
talk about how
conventional it is to go
to church every Sunday
for example, to spend
Christmas with family
etc…
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✓Use this table to help you think about how you will teach the 12 vocabulary items you have selected from the 'What made me the way I
am' text for pre-teaching. Two examples are given to show you how to use it. The table is for the teacher, not the students.
✓For pronunciation, you may find one of these sites helpful: http://www.phonemicchart.com/transcribe/ https://easypronunciation.com/en/
english-phonetic-transcription-converter
Pronunciation Grammatical
How meaning will be (Transcription and Concept questions
No Item Meaning Word Stress
and other
conveyed to students (if needed)
Pattern) information
Background The kind of family you Starting by telling about
come from, you myself and everything that /ˈbækˌɡraʊnd/ I will ask some
experience of education, built my background. Noun students what are
living conditions, Where I am from, how I their backgrounds
1
culture etc… grew up etc… In a very Oo “So what’s YOUR
general way so the students background? Where
understand that everything are you from, how did
in my past constitute a you grow up, what
background. were your parents
situations…?”
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, Solstice Either of the I will show them a schema /ˈsɒl.stɪs/ Noun
two occasions in of the art and the sun and
the year when drill asking how it is called
the sun is directly above when the sun is either here
either or here, when it is at the Oo
the furthest point north or furthest from the earth
the furthest point south of
2 the equator that
it ever reaches. These are
the times in the year, in
the middle of
the summer or winter,
when there are
the longest hours of day or
night
3 Conventional Traditional and I will speak about /kənˈven.ʃən.əl/ Adjective I will ask the
ordinary
traditions, ask the oOoo students if they are
students if they are still thinking about
doing or practising anything
anything for generations, conventional
talk about how
conventional it is to go
to church every Sunday
for example, to spend
Christmas with family
etc…
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