Module 5 Wrap up Quiz

Effective contextualized language instruction includes all but which one of the following?

• Linking instruction with home, community, and local culture

• Developing classroom routines to keep communication in English

• Using themes that relate to children’s lives or other classes

• Providing the context of a sentence to analyze a grammatical point

• Focusing children’s attention on a game, song, or story

Contextualizing language instruction makes language learning more meaningful, purposeful, and relevant for young learners.

• True

• False

A unit plan should have all but which of the following qualities?

• Draw upon students’ prior knowledge

• Engage students in the textbook activities one by one

• Integrate all 4 language skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing)

• Engage learners in authentic tasks and language use

• Interest the teacher as well as the students

A thematic unit is a series of _______ that are connected by a topic or theme. The unit could be taught over 4-5 class periods.

Which of the following is a well-written objective?

• By the end of the lesson, SWBAT understand sunny, cloudy, rainy, snowy, and windy.

• By the end of the lesson, SWBAT learn about different types of weather (i.e., sunny, cloudy, rainy, snowy, and windy).

• By the end of the lesson, SWBAT know the different ways to describe weather (i.e., sunny, cloudy, rainy, snowy, and windy).

• By the end of the lesson, SWBAT say if the weather is sunny, cloudy, rainy, snowy, and windy when shown a flashcard or gesture.

What is the most important aspect of a lesson plan?

• Using the PPP approach, i.e., presentation, practice and production

• Using the following steps in order: warm-up, presentation, practice, application, assessment, follow-up

• Sequencing the activities based on the activities in the textbook

• Sequencing the activities using receptive tasks before productive tasks and presenting language before asking students to practice

• Following the teacher's edition lessons word for word

Thematic unit planning is useful for teaching grammar for all the following reasons, except...

 

• Children can have plenty of chances to “notice” the grammar as they see it used in various contexts.

• Grammar can be used in a meaningful context based on the theme.

• Grammar can be recycled from lesson to lesson.

• Grammar can be embedded into activities that use all 4 language skills.

• Multiple lessons can be planned around one grammar point.

When teaching English as a foreign language (EFL), the classroom has to be a place in which language is not only taught but also used meaningfully.

• True

• False

To make an objective measurable, you would want students to be able to...

• Identify

• Understand

• Learn

• Appreciate

In the Warm-up step, the teacher starts the lesson with activities that create interest and excitement for the lesson, link the day’s lesson with previous lessons, and activate background knowledge about the content and the new language.

• True

• False