When it comes to doing any piece of writing , it is always helpful to have some examples so that you can get an idea of what you need to do. This is what you will find in this book. This book contains 36 examples of different texts, such as reports, proposals, articles, etc., written by real students who took either the FCE or the CAE writing examinations. These texts achieved a pass at grade A, which means that they were awarded a score of over 80% .
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Topic 2: Difficult experiences can be valuable learning experiences. What was a difficult experience you went through? What did you learn from this experience essay?
Topic 3: Some movies are made just do entertain audiences, while others are meant to make audiences think about certain issues. Which type or movie do you prefer? Describe a movie you saw that represents your preferred type of movie. Give specific reasons for your ideas.
Topic 4: Imagine that you have a machine and can take one trip through time. Would you visit the past or the future? Explain your choice. Include details and examples in your explanation.
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- how easy or difficult it is to teach English as a foreign language
- how a language teacher comes to grips with finding out and explaining language rules
- how to describe the different ways people talk and write English
- what sort of person makes a good language teacher and whether you might be that sort of person?
If your answer to any of these questions is 'yes', then this course should interest you.
What are the aims of the course?
The main aim of this course is to act as a taster for anyone who feels they might like to pursue an interest in language or language teaching. It is designed to fascinate and intrigue but above all to be clear and straightforward about the nature of the English language. For instance, it highlights the variety and diversity displayed by English. The differences between colloquial English, conversational and written English may seem at first obvious, but they are not and they are not always mirrored in other languages. In Arabic-speaking countries, educated people sometimes use classical Arabic in speech as well as in writing, whereas less educated people speak only colloquial Arabic. The differences in convention between the two languages must be well understood by teacher and learner alike if confusion and misunderstanding are not to result. But this course is not just about the system and use of language. The information it provides is always set in the context of learning development, both the learning that you will be doing as course user and the learning achieved by learners of a Foreign language.
A second aim of language and learning awareness is to promote English language teaching (ELT) as a profession rather than as just a backpacker's passport. You might think the days are gone when to get into teaching English as a foreign language (EFL), the first step was to 'practice' on a class, without so much as a day's training. Sadly this does still happen, and of course is fair neither to the learners nor the 'teacher'. I hope that this course will persuade anyone who isn't persuaded already how important it is to counter this state of affairs.
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Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
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2. Two Part Examination
Interview with
your Instructor:
This part is relatively easy. I will ask
you questions and you must answer
them. The questions will be about
you, your course of study, your family
or your daily schedule
Conversation with
your Partner:
This part is more complex. I will
introduce you to your conversation
partner and you will begin discussing
a topic that I have selected for you.
*There is a list of topics at the end of
this ppt
3. Exam Organization
You will be graded on:
Your active listening skills
Your transition skills
Your ability to introduce new information
Your ability to seek clarification of misunderstood information
Your ability to use effective communication strategies
Your abilities in conversation repair
4. Effective English
To speak effectively in another
language we need a variety of ‘’tools’.
We will be exploring some of them and
suggesting ways in which you can practice
and improve using them in English.
5. Tools for Speaking
Conversation is a complex activity, even in
our first language, and can cause
difficulties for either speaker or listener
We are going to look at two aspects for
speaking.
6. Aspect #1
As a speaker you may not remember the
exact word or expression for what you want
to say. In this case, you need to adopt one
of a set of communication strategies,
which involve finding another way of
expressing the desired meaning in a
different form.
7. Aspect #2
When you are listening, you may not
understand - or hear - the speaker, so you
have to signal that there is a problem, so
that the speaker and you can negotiate a
way of resolving it between you. We refer
to this as conversational repair
8.
9. Here is an extract from a Danish student’s story about an
accident, based on a set of pictures:
They are carrying a man - in ahm - erm - in a
portable bed - the one that the hospitals use to
carry people that got an accident - and they're
taking him - ah from the road - he was on the
road - ok but they have just come because - a
man - has called the police - I mean the people
in charge of looking after people that have had
accidents. (Bygate 1987: 46)
10. What was the English word he was looking for when he said
portable bed? What did he mean by the people in charge of
looking after people that have had accidents? Which of the
Communication Strategies was he using?
The first word the Danish
speaker did not manage to
remember (or did not know)
was stretcher.
In both cases he
used paraphrase
to resolve the
problem.
The second was paramedics or ambulance crew.
11. Conversational repair
Our next example involved two native
speakers of English: A, an American
woman visiting Edinburgh, and S, a
local resident. A had asked S for advice
on where she could go for a bicycle
ride.
12. Firth of Forth
The Forth Bridge is a cantilever
railway bridge over the Firth of
Forth in the east of Scotland
which connects Scotland's capital
city, Edinburgh, with the kingdom.
13. What was the misunderstanding?
A: What about going down by the Firth of Forth?
S: That should be fun, shouldn't it? Yes, you could. You can
ride right along the edge, you know, without having to keep
to the main road. That should be great, actually. You could
do that.
A: Is it very rough down there, though?
S: Well, there are no cobbles as far as I can remember.
Have you tried riding on the cobbles?
A: No, but I was thinking rather more... rough in terms of
the people.
S: Oh I see. Well, I don't think so. I don't know. Parts of it
are quite poor, particularly the Pilton area.
(adapted from Brown and Yule 1983: 93)
14. What the Scottish woman did was
reformulate (rephrase) what she has said, to
make her meaning clearer. …
The Scot understood that the American
meant that the road by the Firth of
Forth is 'rough' (= uneven to cycle on);
in fact, S was asking whether the local
people were 'rough' (= unfriendly,
aggressive).
16. It is a common experience that when
speaking another language we are aware
of greater time pressure than
when talking our own language. By the
time we have worked out what we
wanted to say, the conversation may
have moved on, making our comment no
longer relevant.
18. Cultural Problems
Westerners are unwilling to correct
international students in informal
conversation for social reasons.
In English, if you openly correct
someone in informal conversation, you
risk being considered arrogant or too
aggressive.
19. Practical Tips for Negative Feedback
One possibility is: ask the listeners what they thought
you said. When we have said something that is not
understood, our natural reaction is to repeat or rephrase
what we have said, so that the listener can understand us.
Asking the person to tell you what it was they thought you
said will give you a 'picture' of what your English sounds
like to other people.
A second tactic for learning from conversation is to listen
carefully to what the other people in the conversation
say when they are trying to understand a word you have
pronounced differently from them.
20. Conversing Principle: Lines as wholes
Opening: Hi; How are you?; How's it going?
Taking a turn: Yes but; Well yes but; Surely...
Holding a turn: er; um; anyway; you know; I mean
Passing a turn: What do you think?; tag questions
Closing: Right; well anyway; so; ok then
21. Topics
Is torture justified when used for national security?
Should cell phones be banned in schools?
Is peer pressure harmful or beneficial to individuals?
Should violent video games be banned?
Should the death penalty be taken away completely?
Are beauty pageants a way to objectify women?
Should cigarettes be banned from society?
Is it unethical to eat meat?
Should people live together before they are married?
Do celebrities make for bad role models?
Are credit cards more harmful than debit cards?
22. Topics
Should school attendance be made voluntary in high school?
Is the boarding school system beneficial to children?
Are curfews effective in terms of keeping teens out of trouble?
Should libraries have a list of books that are banned?
Will posting students’ grades on bulletin boards publicly motivate
them to perform better or is it humiliating?
Do school uniforms help to improve the learning environment?
How far is competition necessary in regards to the learning process?
Should the concept of zoos should be nullified?
Should fried foods come with a warning?
Should sex education be banned?
23. Topics
Should schools be required to teach arts and music?
Is human cloning justified, and should it be allowed?
Is pollution a real or fake problem?
Should parents not purchase war or destruction type toys for their children?
Should animal dissections be banned in schools?
Should plastic bags be banned?
Are humans too dependent on computers?
Are security cameras an invasion of our privacy?
Should gay marriages be legalized?
Is co-education a good idea?
Does money motivates people more than any other factor in the workplace?
Is it ethical for companies to market their products to children?
Is age an important factor in relationships?
