September & October in TESOL

Sep. 26 - Unit 7 Listening
Class meets in 1521 through term
Activities
1) do Teaching Listening Presentation (long)

• use Teaching Listening Worksheet (long)
• use Example Listening Activities Worksheet

2) assign rereading Unit 7 for HW

Homework
1) read Unit 7 Listening, pp. 43-46
2) look over Unit 7 Reading Review, revise if necessary

Oct. 3 - Unit 7 Listening
Activities
1) discuss, revise, hand in Unit 7 Reading Review
2) do Teaching Listening Presentation (short) as review

• use Teaching Listening Worksheet (short)

Homework
1) read Unit 8 Speaking


Oct. 10 - Unit 7 Listening & Unit 8 Speaking
Activities
1) complete Teaching Listening Presentation (short) as review

• use Teaching Listening Worksheet (short)

2) do listening text review activity (look at examples of listening texts)

• use Listening Text Review Worksheet

3) do in-class writing quiz: Unit 8 Reading Review I - Concepts 
4) review Text Unit 8 with Teaching Speaking Presentation

• use Teaching Speaking Worksheet

5) assign HW

Homework
1) reread TKT Text Unit 8 Speaking

• study for Unit 8 Reading Review II - Classroom Teaching, pp. 49-50

2) clean up Unit 8 Reading Review I - Concepts


Oct. 24 - Unit 8 Speaking
Activities
1) review, discuss, hand in Unit 8 Reading Review I - Concepts 
2) review Text Unit 8 with Teaching Speaking Presentation
3) do in-class writing quiz: Unit 8 Reading Review II - Classroom Teaching
4) do example speaking activities

• use one or two exercises from Breakthrough PLUS for accuracy practice

5) assign HW

Homework
1) do Unit 8 Reading Review II - Classroom Teaching


Oct. 31 - Unit 8 Speaking & Unit 9 Motivation
Activities
1) ) check HW in small discussion groups
2) do example speaking activities

• use one or two exercises from Breakthrough PLUS for accuracy practice
• use Countries Visited Worksheet for fluency practice
• additional speaking exercises - categorize for accuracy or fluency, more or less controlled

3) survey speaking texts

• use text survey worksheet (need copies)

4) review and assign Unit 8 Opinion Writing

Homework
1) do Unit 8 Opinion Writing
2) Read Unit 9 Motivation