Michael, a wealthy widower with four children, remarried a woman named Annie. The children were sent to boarding school but their plane crashed in a jungle. While lost in the jungle, the children encountered strange shadows, dolls singing of death, and a man with a knife in a cave. They eventually escaped to a beach where they were rescued by helicopter. One child took the clown's hand as a souvenir, and Michael decided to stay with his children instead of Annie.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
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.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
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This is a presentation by Dada Robert in a Your Skill Boost masterclass organised by the Excellence Foundation for South Sudan (EFSS) on Saturday, the 25th and Sunday, the 26th of May 2024.
He discussed the concept of quality improvement, emphasizing its applicability to various aspects of life, including personal, project, and program improvements. He defined quality as doing the right thing at the right time in the right way to achieve the best possible results and discussed the concept of the "gap" between what we know and what we do, and how this gap represents the areas we need to improve. He explained the scientific approach to quality improvement, which involves systematic performance analysis, testing and learning, and implementing change ideas. He also highlighted the importance of client focus and a team approach to quality improvement.
2. Michael was a very rich widower. He lived in a mansion
with his four children
He felt alone and one summer night he met a very beautiful
woman called Annie. After a year, they decided to get married.
The children didn't like their new stepmother, because she was
very bossy, and she was always arguing with them. One night,
Annie and Michael talked about the children's future. Annie
proposed to send the children to a boarding school. Michael
accepted the proposal and they prepared all the arrangements. The
good bye day arrived and the children took a private plane to the
boarding school. In the trip, the private plane crashed in the
jungle, so they were trapped in the enchanted jungle. The 4
siblings came down of the plane and they walked through the
jungle.While they were walking they heard a misterious
noise.They turned around but they didn´t see nothing, they
continued walking and they heard the sound again, when they
turned around they saw a shadow and two red eyes. After that the
shadow disappeared. The four brothers remained intrigued and
kept walking forward.While they were entering the jungle they
began to notice drops of water on their faces. Then they realized
that a big storm was approaching and they took refuge inside a
deep and dark cave.
They were very tired, they sat down and decided it was time to
eat, but at that moment a thunder fell just inside the cave entrance,
and they realized that there was a slaughtered chicken at the
entrance and at the other side of the cave it was its head. The four
3. siblings saw again the reflection of that shadow of bloddy eyes.
For a moment their hearts beated fast: “Toc toc toc”. Eleonor, the
older sister, realized that a man with a large knife in his hand was
heading towards them to kill them and bury them underground. At
that moment they reacted and run out of the cave . . .
Once they have left the cave, they looked up and saw that there
were lots of dolls hunging form the trees with scary faces and
blood all over their bodies.
They suddenly heard how they hummed a song that could barely
be understood. Pau tried to understand what they were singing,
suddenly all the dolls looked towards them and they started to
move while they were singing:you are dead...you are dead...
4. They went through the jungle, running as fast as they can. They
were suffocated because they saw that the cloud was behind them.
They only thought that they had to leave that place but they did
not know how they could escape. Marcos realized that there were
many traps around them. Once they crossed the jungle, they
arrived to a beautiful beach where there were palm trees and in the
distance they could see a helicopter on the sand. Eleonor ran to it
asking for help because he clown was still behind them.
Julia was the first one to get on the helicopter and found that
nobody was there but she decided to pilot it. Eleonor helped her to
start the propellers to take off. Pau and Marcos defended
themselves from the terrible clown. Finally all the children got on
the helicopter and Julia took off, the clown couldn't jump on the
helicopter but Pau got a small memory from that adventure: the
clown's right hand. They came back home and when the father
knew all the terrible things that have happened to their children, he
decided to stay with them leaving Annie alone.
5. COMPREHENSION QUESTION
1.- Did Michael live in a flat?
2.- How many children did Michael have?
3.- What was the stepmother's name?
4.- What were the children names?
5.- What colour were the clown's eyes?
6.- Where did the plane land?
7.- Which animal was slaughtered in front of the cave?
8.- What did the children find when they go out of the cave?
9.- Which transport did rescue the children?
10.- What souvenir did they take home from this adventure?
6. COMPREHENSION QUESTION
1.- Did Michael live in a flat?
2.- How many children did Michael have?
3.- What was the stepmother's name?
4.- What were the children names?
5.- What colour were the clown's eyes?
6.- Where did the plane land?
7.- Which animal was slaughtered in front of the cave?
8.- What did the children find when they go out of the cave?
9.- Which transport did rescue the children?
10.- What souvenir did they take home from this adventure?
