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Complete the following questions and send back toadmin@svsenglish.org

Task 1: Correct the mistakes in the following sentences and explain why it is wrong (as if you wereexplaining it to a student).

a) I haven’t got no brothers.

b) There is a milk in the fridge.

c) What do you do last Saturday?

d) I’m knowing him very well.

Task 2: Imagine you are doing a lesson on the Present perfect and a student doesn’t understand the

difference between the Past simple and the Present perfect.Explain what you would say to the student including examples where necessary.

Task 3 : For the following situations, indicate how you would respond by adding the words ‘YES’ or ‘NO’ after each response. Furthermore, if you have written ‘YES’ after a sentence,briefly explain why you think this is a good idea.

Situation 1: A student asks you a question and you are not sure what the answer is.What would you do?

Run out of the class and not come back.

Leave the class and ask another teacher for a quick explanation.

Tell the students that you will discuss it later or next lesson.

Say, “I’m sorry, I don’t know.”

Ask other students if they can explain it.

Quickly make something up.

Say, “It’s too complicated. Don’t worry about it!”

Situation 2: You have to teach a lesson.What would you do to prepare for the lesson?

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Drink alcohol the night before to relieve the stress.

Spend about half an hour before the lesson going through the lesson plan.

Go through each exercise/ activity to see if you know all the answers.

Read through the lesson plan the day before.

Situation 3: You have just finished explaining something to the students.What should you do next?

Move onto the next topic.

Ask the students if they understand.

Get students to give some examples.

Ask the students to explain the concept again.

Get every student to explain the concept.

Write some examples on the whiteboard.

1. Student writing

Read the following piece of writing.

Underline the errors. Correct them. Choose two errors - say why you think they occurred

- suggest one possible way of helping them.

Rashid Ahmed was born in Dubai in the U A E He was

born in 1910 He studied on Al Bustan Primary School

in 1915 to 1920 IN 1921 to 1926 studies at Khaleej

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Secondary School He was wrote a 25 books from 1927 to

1965 He got married in 1927 His wife’s name is Mona

He have 5 children 3 boy two girl He died in 1980

2. Student mistakes

Each of the exchanges below contains a mistake.

In each case:

a) underline the mistakeb) write the correct version in the space providedc) write, in simple terms, as if speaking to a learner of English, how you would

explain the correction

a) “I’d like some informations about the courses.” “Certainly, here’s our brochure.”

b) “Have you got any money?” “Yes, I’ve been to the bank yesterday.”

c) “What did you do last night?” “I watched a very bored programme on television.”

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3. Approaches to Teaching and Learning

Imagine you are teaching a multilingual group of 12 beginners here in Sri Lanka.

a) What problems might your students have in understanding and pronouncing thesesentences?

I’ve got a headache.

I’ve got a pain in my leg.

4. Learning English

Think about your own experience as a language learner at school or elsewhere and /or your experience of helping people to learn English. What problems do you thinklearners are likely to have with the English language? Write about 200 words. Youranswer could comment on some of the following: tenses, vocabulary, pronunciation,spelling, word order and meaning.