Language Awareness ELT Lesson 1

• Engels
• Middelbare school

Lesson One. Language Awareness - General introduction

Lesson goals

At the end of this lesson you can

• describe the meaning of the word language awareness
• explain why language awareness matters
• describe your own ideas about the languages that you come across in your daily life.

Road map

• About this project 
• Final assignment
• What is language awareness
• Why is it useful to be 'language aware'
• Passport assignment 

About this Project

• Four lessons
• Each lesson has its own focus
• You will need to hand in a blog, vlog, or diary as a final product. 
• Hand in your end product on ....

Are you a blogger, vlogger, or diarist?

1. Blogger
2. Vlogger
3. Diarist
4. Don't know yet, ask me again at the end of class

Hazzard a guess: language awareness has to do with ...

1. the system behind a language
2. people's ideas about a language
3. dialects and such
4. all of the above

Language Awareness

is knowing how to learn and use languages effectively, so that they do what you want them to do, and purposefully, so that they help you reach your goals. 

Why should you care?

Final assignment 

Adapt: do tell them too much, may be daunting1

Are you a blogger, vlogger, or diarist?

1. Blogger
2. Vlogger
3. Diarist