Assignment A
Text 1 – 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 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
light-hearted 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.
, 1. Vocabulary Pre-Teaching Planning Table
✔ In this table, show ten items from the text to pre-teach. Please complete every section of the table for all ten items. 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: 1000 words.
How Meaning will be
Pronunciation
Meaning Conveyed to Students, Grammatical and Concept Questions
Item IPA transcription AND
(General definition) including Language- Other Information
word stress pattern
Graded Definition
(be) obsessed unable to stop thinking I will explain, beginning with Adjective+preposition Is this the same as /əb'sest wɪð/
with about someone or the near synonym 'very very being interested in (or / wɪɵ/)
something something. interested in' and giving some Noun form – an something or
examples obsession stronger? (stronger) stress - oOo
unusually/
unhealthily interested in After (hopefully) eliciting, I Can be insulting to tell Is it normal to be
or worried about will give a couple of someone they are obsessed with
someone or something examples: obsessed with something? (No)
He's obsessed with his something.
weight.
She's obsessed with the royal
family.
language graded Definition
for B1: to think and talk
about someone or something
too much (Cambridge
Learners Dictionary)
Text 1 – 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 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
light-hearted 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.
, 1. Vocabulary Pre-Teaching Planning Table
✔ In this table, show ten items from the text to pre-teach. Please complete every section of the table for all ten items. 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: 1000 words.
How Meaning will be
Pronunciation
Meaning Conveyed to Students, Grammatical and Concept Questions
Item IPA transcription AND
(General definition) including Language- Other Information
word stress pattern
Graded Definition
(be) obsessed unable to stop thinking I will explain, beginning with Adjective+preposition Is this the same as /əb'sest wɪð/
with about someone or the near synonym 'very very being interested in (or / wɪɵ/)
something something. interested in' and giving some Noun form – an something or
examples obsession stronger? (stronger) stress - oOo
unusually/
unhealthily interested in After (hopefully) eliciting, I Can be insulting to tell Is it normal to be
or worried about will give a couple of someone they are obsessed with
someone or something examples: obsessed with something? (No)
He's obsessed with his something.
weight.
She's obsessed with the royal
family.
language graded Definition
for B1: to think and talk
about someone or something
too much (Cambridge
Learners Dictionary)
