Teaching Skills Input Session 5: Giving Instructions & Grading Language
“Okay, everybody, would you, Rafa, sit down. Now what you have to do is, when you, you take out this sheet of paper that I’m handing out now and keep it secret, and some of you are “A”, it’s written at the top, and some of you are labelled “B”, okay, can you see that, don’t show your paper to anyone and then you have to describe to your partner, sit face to face, could you move your chairs around and describe what’s on your paper so your partner can find out what’s different, and you must agree, then when you find something out you draw it on your paper. Okay. Do you understand?”
Giving Instructions
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- Speed of Speech
- Clarity of Voice
- Choice of Lexis
- Complexity of Grammar
- Use of Body Language
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- At Higher Levels
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Giving Instructions: Task 1
Watch the video and and answer these two questions:
1. How can we make the instructions clearer?
2. What feedback can we give at the end of this task?
Giving Instructions: Recommendations
1. Get the attention of all the learners.
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5. Give the materials to the learners.
Giving Instructions: Task 2
Simplify the following instructions:
Now actually I would really like if you could now stand up everyone please.
It’s the unit on, er, travel somewhere, it’s near the middle, page 35 or 36, can you find that? Have you got it, no not that one, the next unit, and take a look at the introduction, read it through quickly and jot down your answers to the questions at the top of the page over there before the illustration.
Would you like to tell everyone the answer you were thinking of again because I don’t think they heard it when you spoke so quietly and I’m sure we’d all be interested in hearing it if you could please.
