CELT-S Module 2 – Portfolio task
Module 2 – Language learning and the teenage learner
Portfolio task – Plan, teach and evaluate questions for a vocabulary activity
Task focus – Using different types of questions to engage teenage learners: questions for
the lead-in stage to involve learners, questions to check learners’ understanding,
questions about language and questions to find out learners’ preferences and opinions
Procedure
Review the content of Module 2 Lesson 3 on using questions to improve learning.
You can do this by:
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Going back and looking again at some sections in the lesson in the online module.
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Reading your own notes.
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Talking to other teachers.
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Doing some more reading or research.
Select a section from your coursebook which focuses on vocabulary.
Plan a lesson which includes the vocabulary activity you have chosen from your
coursebook (remember to think about interaction patterns for each stage):
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Prepare a lead-in using questions to involve learners in the topic of the vocabulary.
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Plan how you will teach the vocabulary and prepare questions to check
understanding of the meaning of the vocabulary and questions about language.
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Prepare an activity for learners to practise the vocabulary and prepare questions to
check that learners understand the instructions for the activity.
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Plan how you will provide feedback to the whole class and prepare questions to ask
learners about their preferences and opinions.
Complete Part 1 of the Portfolio task template:
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Provide details of the vocabulary activity and your class.
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Write the procedures you will follow for each stage.
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Write the questions you will ask in the whole-class stages: the lead-in stage, the
teach-vocabulary stage, the set-up-practice-activity stage and the whole-classfeedback stage.
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Complete the interaction patterns template to show how learners will work at each
stage.
Teach your lesson and reflect on it, then complete Part 2 of the Portfolio task template.
This includes your reflections on your use of questions in lessons, action points for
improving your use of questions in future lessons and a checklist of evidence you need to
submit.
Upload:
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The section which focuses on vocabulary you chose from the coursebook.
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Any additional tasks/materials you used in the lesson e.g. visuals, the practice
activity.
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The completed Portfolio task template.
Cambridge English CELT-S | Module 2 | Portfolio Task | Focus on using questions | V2.0 2020
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