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The TEFL Academy Combined TEFL Course (120 Hours)

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Activity 1 Activity 7 Activity 13

Activity 2 Activity 8 Activity 14

Activity 3 Activity 9 Activity 15

Activity 4 Activity 10

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Activity 1
Number these situations in order, with (1) being the one you think is the most common.

The school allows the teacher to choose a coursebook from a limited choice.

No coursebook or syllabus is provided, and the teacher is given no guidance at all about what to teach.

The school provides the teacher with a syllabus to follow, but no coursebook.

The school allows the teacher to use any coursebook/materials s/he wants to.

The school tells the teacher which coursebook to use.

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Activity 2
List what you think would be some of the advantages and disadvantages of using coursebooks
in the table below.

Advantages Disadvantages
For teachers:

For students:

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Activity 3
Make notes on what you would look for in a coursebook. Use the list of advantages and
disadvantages from the previous question to help you.

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Activity 4
It can be tempting to just ‘go through the book’, using your teacher’s book as a guide during a
lesson, and not bothering to plan in advance. This approach obviously saves planning time, but
it has a number of disadvantages.

What might these disadvantages be?

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Activity 5
Below is a list of problems teachers frequently find with coursebook materials. What could you
do about each of these problems?

The main topic of this unit is something which most of the students are likely to find boring/
totally irrelevant.

The main grammar point in the unit is something most of the students already know very well.

The reading texts include a very high proportion of unfamiliar vocabulary.

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None of the material in this unit recycles the grammar and vocabulary presented in the last one.

The new grammar presented in the unit will be difficult for my students, but it is not explained
very clearly and there is hardly any practice material.

The listening text is awful! It sounds really stilted and inauthentic.

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Activity 6
Match the coursebook instructions (1-8) with their aims (a-h). The first one has been done for you.
Coursebook instructions Aims
1. Match sentences 1-3 with these uses: a. to scan for specific information
a) Future personal arrangements
b) Something happening right now
c) Something happening around this time
2. Read the article quickly to find the b. to check for vocabulary
following bits of information
3. Read quickly and decide which of c. to provide accuracy practice
these titles is best for this article
4. Read through the multiple-choice questions, d. to listen for detailed information
then listen to the text again to find the answers
5. Complete the gaps with the past simple e. to read for gist
form of the verbs in the brackets
6. Listen and repeat f. to concept-check learners’ understanding of
present continuous functions
7. In pairs, ask and answer the questions about your family g. to practise pronunciation
8. Match the words and phrases in the h. to develop oral fluency
box with the pictures

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Activity 7
The aim of the exercise - accuracy practice, is obviously useful. Why might you not want to do
this activity as it is in the book?

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Activity 8
Which of the two activities below better achieves the original aim (accuracy practice) of the
coursebook exercise?
1. Teacher divides the class into 10 pairs and gives each pair a large piece of card with one of the
bracketed words in small writing at the bottom of it.

Pair 1 has (visit) Pair 2 has (be) Pair 3 has (you/go?)

The teacher then tells the students to write the past simple form of their verb on the card in large
letters, e.g.
(visit) visited

The teacher projects the sentences from the exercise onto the whiteboard.
Students have to come up and stick their card in the correct space.
The whole class read the answers, discuss whether they are correct and
then copy the answers to the exercise in their books.

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2. Teacher divides class into 10 pairs and tells them to tell each other about their last holiday.

Using the answer box below, write which of the two activities better achieves the original aim.

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Activity 9
How could you begin a natural-feeling discussion with your students on this topic (family
members) to start the lesson?

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Activity 10
Make a list of ways you could use the Internet (or other modern technology) to encourage
students to communicate with you or each other in English.

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Activity 11 Ask everyone in the class at least one question

You are planning your first lesson with a Find someone who... Name
pre-intermediate class. The structures they 1
should know at this stage are: comparative
and superlative forms, adverbs of manner 2
(slowly, quickly, etc.), adverbs of frequency 3
(often, usually, sometimes, never, etc.),
like plus - ing (I like swimming, I don’t 4
like dancing), can/can’t to express ability,
present simple, present continuous (for 5
present and future reference), past simple
6
tense, going to future.
7
Make a Find Someone Who for this
class using some of the grammatical 8
structures listed above. Keep the
9
vocabulary fairly simple.
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Activity 12
The procedure for the jumbled paragraphs activity is shown below.
Copy the reading text and cut it into separate paragraphs.
Divide the class into groups and give each group a set of paragraphs.
Students have to decide on the correct order of the paragraphs.

What reading skills would this activity help to develop?

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Activity 13
What different skills would the students practise in a jigsaw reading lesson?

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Activity 14
What do you think you should consider when deciding whether or not to use a particular song
in a class?

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Activity 15
Make a list of all the games and activities that you might be able to use in your lessons.

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Please use the contents page to complete any missed activities.

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