Teachers Roles

Read and decide which role you think is the most appropriate for the teacher to adopt: "The teacher has just introduced the first conditional to a group of teenage, pre-intermediate students through a reading text and wants to find out if they understand what the structure means."

• Language resource

• Assessor

• Monitor

Here is a classroom situation. Decide which choice is most appropriate in each case: "The teacher has planned to start the lesson by going over homework set in the

previous lesson. However, only half the class have done it".

• The teacher starts the lesson by going over homework as he had planned.

• The teacher puts the students into pairs, one who has done the homework and

  one who hasn't and goes over homework with the whole class.

• The teacher collects the homework from the students who have done it and

  tells the other students to bring their completed homework to the next class.

The teacher has finished what she planned to do in the lesson but there are still

five minutes of the class left.

• The teacher tells the students they can leave the class early.

• The teacher tells students to close their books and to try and remember six of

  the new words from the lesson.

• The teacher plays the listening text from the lesson again and tells students to

  listen more carefully.

Half the students always arrive late for the lesson because they have gym

immediately beforehand.

• The teacher gives a workbook exercise to the students who come on time.

• The teacher punishes the students who come late.

• The teacher prepares a game on the topic of the lesson for the students who

  come on time.

The students are passive and always wait for the teacher to tell them the answers

and to give examples. He wants them to participate more actively in the lessons.

• The teacher lets students check answers and ideas in pairs before eliciting answers from the class.

• The teacher tells the students that they must participate more.

• The teacher asks a question or asks for an example and then waits until a student answers.

Choose the letter which does NOT complete the statement correctly: "When acting as a monitor in pairwork, the teacher".

• stands watching the learners.

• moves around the classroom.

• partners a learner.

When acting as a language expert, the teacher

• maintains discipline.

• explains the meaning to learners.

• provides models.

When acting as a rapport builder, the teacher

• finds out learners' names.

• develops learner autonomy.

• encourages the use of learning strategies.

When acting as a manager, the teacher

• organises learning resources.

• presents new language.

• sets up group work.

When acting as a diagnostician, the teacher

• evaluates test results

• checks learners' homework.

• introduces new lexis.