April in TESOL

April 24 - Class Introduction - Teaching Grammar
Activities
1) do class member introductions

• instructor, including contact information and office hours
• class members

2) discuss aspects of class

• class goals
• text
• class blog as home base

3) preview TKT Unit 1
4) discuss and assign HW

Homework
1) read TKT Text Unit 1, pp. 8-12
2) buy tango cards
3) do Unit 1 Reading Review
4) do first two example grammar exercises

May in TESOL

May 1 - Teaching Grammar
Activities
1) continue discussing aspects of class

• grading policies
• attendance and participation policies
• amounts and types of assignments

2) review TKT Text Unit 1
3) check Follow-up Activities, pp. 12-13
4) check and collect all HW
5) put Unit 1 vocabulary in tango cards
6) discuss and assign model grammar class (teams, focus, materials, etc.)
7) discuss and assign HW

Homework
1) complete lesson planning
2) create exercise (google doc, share with instructor)
3) complete 指導案


May 8 - Teaching Grammar
Activities
1) review and collect Unit 1 Reading Review
2) review TKT Text Unit 1, check Follow-up Activities, pp. 12-13
3) check and collect HW, Common Types of Grammar Exercises
4) view Presentation on Teaching Grammar Part II
6) discuss and assign for Team Practice Teaching

• Team 1: Explain how to use present perfect tense verbs
• Team 2: Explain how to use articles - a, the, some
• Team 3: Explain how to have subject/verb agreement (1st person, 2nd person, 3rd person)
• Team 4: Explain how and why we use passive verbs
• Team 5: Explain the difference between past tense verbs and past perfect verbs
• Team 6: Explain how to use prefixes and suffixes to change meanings of words
• use Grammar Presentation Practice Activity
• use 指導案

7) discuss and assign HW

Homework
1) prepare for Team Practice Teaching
2) do Unit 1 Opinion Writing

May 15 - Grammar Teaching Preparation
Activities
1) prepare for Grammar Teaching Practice

• use Model Teaching 学習指導案
• use Teaching Observation Form
• Team 1: Prefixes and Suffixes Exercise
• Team 2: 1st, 2nd, 3rd Person Verbs Exercise

3) do prereading for Unit 2, do start exercises
4) discuss and assign HW

Homework
1) reread TKT Unit 2 Lexis
2)

May 22 - Grammar Model Teaching
Activities
1) prepare for Grammar Teaching Practice

• use Model Teaching 学習指導案
• use Teaching Observation Form
• Team 1: Prefixes and Suffixes Exercise
• Team 2: 1st, 2nd, 3rd Person Verbs Exercise

2) discuss and assign Vocabulary Size Test
3) discuss and assign HW

Homework
1) complete Model Teaching Peer Evaluation and Self Evaluation
2)

May 29 - What Is Lexis?
Activities
1) collect Model Teaching Peer Evaluation and Self Evaluation
2) do Unit 2 Reading Review
3) do What is Lexis? Worksheet
6) discuss and assign HW

Homework
1) do Unit 2 Opinion Writing
2) do Collocations Exercise

June in TESOL

June 5 - Teaching Lexis
Activities
1) hand back checked HW
2) check Collocations Exercise
3) discuss online Vocabulary Size Test HW
4) choose Units 1 and 2 vocabulary to study, write vocabulary into word cards
5) introduce How to Do a Listening Cloze
6) start doing example Vocabulary Exercises
7) discuss and assign HW

Homework
1) TBD
2) TBD

June 12 - How do we teach vocabulary?
Activities
1) hand back checked HW, discuss writing in Opinion Writing
2) discuss how to teach vocabulary

• TKT text reading
• Ur Teaching Vocabulary Presentation
• Ur Teaching Vocabulary Worksheet

3) check assigned example vocabulary building exercises

• How to Do a Scrambled Word Exercise
• How to Do a Scrambled Sentence Exercise
• Prefix Exercise 1（接頭辞の練習 1）

4) do other example vocabulary building exercises

• Word-Definition Matching Exercise
• Word-Picture Matching Exercise
• Vocabulary Brainstorming Game

5) Discuss and assign HW

Homework

1) Prepare Vocabulary Model Lesson

2) complete 指導案
3) create 教材

June 19 - Preparation for Vocabulary Model Lessons
Activities
1) hand back checked HW
2) do other example vocabulary building exercises

• Word-Definition Matching Exercise
• Word-Picture Matching Exercise
• Vocabulary Brainstorming Game

3) prepare for Vocabulary Model Lessons

• form teaching teams
• choose activity - develop 教材
• complete 指導案

4) discuss and assign HW

Homework

1) complete preparation for Vocabulary Model Class

• rewrite and share 教材 on google documents with the instructor
• complete 指導案

June 26 - Vocabulary Model Lessons
Activities
1) do Vocabulary model lessons
2) preview Unit 4 reading
3) start Unit 4 Worksheet (Reading Review)
4) discuss and assign HW

Homework

1) read Unit 4 Functions
2) TBD

July and August in TESOL

July 2 - Vocabulary Model Lessons, Functions
Activities
1) do final Vocabulary model lesson
2) check Unit 4 Opinion Writing
3) put TKT Unit 4 vocabulary into tango cards
4) complete Unit 4 Worksheet (Reading Review)
5) view Unit 4 presentation as review activity
6) discuss and assign HW

Homework
1) reread Unit 4

2) TBD

July 9 - Functions
Activities
1) put TKT Unit 4 vocabulary into tango cards
2) complete Unit 4 Worksheet (Reading Review)
3) view Unit 4 presentation as review activity
4) preview Unit 5 Reading
5) discuss and assign HW

Homework
1) read Unit 5
2) TBD


July 16 - Teaching Reading
Activities
1) hand back checked HW
2) put TKT Unit 5 vocabulary into tango cards
3) go through TKT text unit on Reading

• Unit 5 Discussion Worksheet
• Unit 5 Follow-up Activities Worksheet
• How to Do a Scanning Activity
• How to Do a Skimming Activity

4) discuss and assign HW

Homework
1) reread TKT Unit 5
2) do TKT Unit 5 Opinion Writing


July 23 - Teaching Reading
Activities
1) discuss, revise and collect TKT Unit 5 Opinion Writing
2) announce 2017 Spring Term Exam (TKT Text)
3) go through Example Reading Activities

• Unit 5 Follow-up Activities Worksheet
• Unit 5 Discussion Worksheet

4) highlight example reading activities
5) discuss and assign HW

Homework
1) do How to Do Intensive Reading exercise
2) TBD


Aug. 2 - Spring Term Test
Activities
1) review, discuss, revise, collect HW
2) update tango cards - discuss review activity schedule
3) do 2019 Spring Term Exam (TKT Text)
4) discuss and assign summer HW

Homework
1) read Unit 5 Reading again
2) have a good summer break



Next Class? - Model Reading Lesson
Activities
1) discuss and complete How to Do Intensive Reading exercise
2) do skimming exercise for TKT Unit 6 Writing
3) do Unit 6 Reading Review
4) update tango cards
5) discuss and assign HW

Homework
1) prepare for 2017 Spring Term Test (review Opinion Writing questions for Units 1, 2 and 5)
2) read Unit 6 Writing

3) complete Unit 6 Reading Review