Student version Lesson 2 in 1.1 in 2022-23

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English lesson 2 

Take attendance.

Have them check-off their own name.

Homework preparations for today

1.  Hardcopy/ On Teams or Moodle, read instructions for Assignment 1:  Article about Field Trip.

2. Prepare a draft article on your Field Trip that you took in week 2 to use in our next English lesson in week 3 and take along to class/upload on Teams  

3. Do the diagnostic test

Lesson goals

Through self-evaluation and peer review students will have critically assessed their own/their peers’ work for assignment 1 while acquiring skills to write an article, as well as new language/communication skills in English 

Today

1.  Self-evaluation about Writing assignment 1:  Article about Field Trip

2.  Peer review  Writing Assignment 1:  Article about Field Trip

3.  English exercises/ quiz

4.  Diagnostic Test 

5.  Preparations for next time

Assignment 1: Field trip article

SELF-evaluation 

• On TEAMS, find the SELF-evaluation form for the Article on the Field Trip/ (also on Moodle)
• READ  Self-evaluation form Field Trip.  FILL IT IN for yourself.
• If you did not hand in your draft version of the article you can start writing it in class.
• Take 10 minutes for self evaluation.

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Which grade would you give your article at this stage?

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Assignment 1: Field trip article

PEER review

1. Please make groups of 3
2. On TEAMS/MOODLE, find the PEER feedback form for your Article about the Field Trip.
3. READ the feedback form.
4.  REVIEW each other's work and FILL IN the Peer review form
5. SAVE a copy of the Peer review form for yourself
6. SEND the Peer review form to your classmate
7. Take 15 minutes

What did you learn yourself from giving feedback?

Which grade would you give the article you have just reviewed at this stage?

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When looking at a classmate's writing, what should you pay attention to/give feedback on?

Text analyzer

Each writing assignment must be accompanied by the Road to Grammar Text Analyzer as a screen shot and show a CEFR English level of a full B1 level. 

Tips to improve the level of your text

If your text does not have the required level, try the following:

1) Avoid spoken language, e.g.

2) ‘really’ as a quantifier, or ‘very’, or ‘a lot’

3)direct instead of indirect speech, etc. etc. formal vs informal

Tips to improve the level of your text

4) long descriptions in simple words that can be replaced by   nouns (or an adjective-noun combination) Example: moral obligation

5) Use sufficient linking words and linking language

Tips to improve the level of your text

6) Increase the level of your linking words (go beyond if, and, but, and the like)

Vary the use of linking words: nevertheless, on the contrary, moreover,  furthermore

7) Avoid repetitions - replace with synonyms

Tips to improve the level of your text

8) Check your tenses: have they been used correctly?

9) Vary your sentence structures

10) Write attractively

11) Choose the right register (the kind of words that fit the taste and level of understanding of your target audience).

12) Do not always repeat the same sentence structure.

13) Do not repeat words unnecessarily, but vary the words you use.

Name some tenses

Tenses

Pre-knowledge:  Self Evaluation

Mixed verb tenses in class

In class Quiz on QUIZIZZ.COM

25 questions  (~10 minutes time)

Do you think you can edit your article to be very strong based on today's feedback? 0 is not at all and 10 is perfection!

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Preparation for next time

1. Watch the 2 web lectures on how to write a press release. 

2.  Apply the peer feedback into Assignment 1, the Article about your Field Trip.  Finalize your text by using the feedback. (required)

3. Read the theory in your MyGrammar Lab book for Unit 19 (Auxiliaries and have got) on pages 90-91 followed by practice exercises on pages 92-93. (recommended)

4. Read the theory in your MyGrammar Lab book for Unit 20 (Present simple or continuous?) on pages 94-95 followed by practice exercises on pages 96-97. (recommended)