Scheme of Work 2010/11: Term 1
THINK ACTIVE! WHAT ARE THE LEARNERS DOING?
Module / Unit Title:
Level 2 literacy/CPE
Skills lessons
Prepared by:
ALISON STRØANDER MC01542
Course Overview: the course prepares the learners for the Level
2 literacy exam and develops the skills and techniques for success
at Cambridge CPE. In this session we use real media to develop
skills across all areas.
Learning Outcomes: improved competency in reading, writing,
speaking and listening skills.
Lesson Duration:
1.75 HOURS
Start Date:
October 6th 2011
Assessment Details: On-line assessment Level 2 literacy May
2011
End Date:
Term 1: December 15 2011
CPE(optional) May 2011
Date
What topic(s) What will learners do?
and learning
objectives will
be covered?
Week 1
Enrolment
06/10/2010 Induction
Getting to
know you
Icebreaker-Q and A
Intensive Listening
Complete Cloze-
How will learning be
checked?
Q&A
Observation: Groups and
pairs
Week 2
Questions and
13/10/2010 answers
Positives and
negatives:
Facebook
Engage in discussion:
Facebook
Recognise and use
some common phrasal
verbs and idioms
Read for detail
Quiz-match idioms/phrasal
verbs and meanings
Match questions and
answers-pairs. Choose qs to
make own questionnaire
Key /
Basic
Skills:
What resources
are needed?
Gapfill
worksheets
CD and player:
Song: Pencil full of
lead
Q&A: the
Guardian. Cut up,
in envelopes.
Facebook
article:Grazia
Brainstorm
positive/negatives about
facebook
Week 3
Futures
20/10/2010
Brainstorm future tenses
and examples in groups
Read article for more ideas.
Discuss.
Correct use of grammar
structure in context
Group work – cartoon
captions
Pair work-gap fill song
Worksheets
CD + player
Dictionaries
What
Independent
Learning/
Homework will
be set?
Free writing
assessment
Write about
your own
Facebook
experiences
26/10/09
Week 4
Food
03/11/2010
Identify idioms in context
Read for gist and detail
Identify key points in a
text
Group discussion
HALF TERM
Matching activity
Jigsaw Reading
Question writing (Pairs)
Swap questions and texts
Week 5
Inventions and
10/11/2010 Innovations 1
Week 6
Inventions and
17/11/2010 innovations 2
Guardian food
articles A and B
Alison’s food
article based on
model
Write your own
food article to
send to
Guardian
Family
Write questions to check
another group’s
understanding
Mark each other’s work and
discuss
Photo of Grandma
Recognise
colloquialisms in context
Matching exercise – small
groups
My best
invention:
paragraph
Intensive listening and
discussion
Q&A: Individuals
Pick out key phrases
Pair work and group work
Who said what to
whom: Board
work?
Wallace and
Gromit programme
Vocab sheet
Cartoons
Interactive
Whiteboard
“Genius” clip with
subtitles
Board Pens
Dictionaries
Write up your
idea
Listen for detail and
identify vocabulary in
context
Discuss and present
new ideas in groups and
as a class
Reading exercise: Steve
Appleby cartoons. “What is
the elephant in the room?”
Watch and discuss “Genius”
clip.
In groups of 4. Discuss new
invention: Which “need”
does it fulfil?” How does it
solve the problem? Prepare
to Present to group. Is it
Genius?
Week 7
Education and
24/11/2010 CV
Discuss issues and
expressions about
education
Group discussion
Warmer “Baldrick
Advanced
Mathematics” clip
Read for detail
Listening activities
Reading exercise:
comprehension
“Educating Rita”
Clip
Speaking ex – pair and
group work
Sentence completion
Student protests
article (Guardian)
Read for detail
Observation
Use appropriate formal
and informal language to
give advice
Comprehension ex and
writing
Clip: Spud’s
interview
(Trainspotting)
Text: Jeremy’s
advice column
(Guardian)
What are your
experiences of
education?
Listen for gist and detail
Week 8
Jobs
01/12/2010 and work
Week 9
Festivities
08/12/2010
Week 11
Christmas
15/12/2010 Activities
Listen to a variety of
accents: Scottish
Form and answer
questions
Read for gist and detail
Identify informal and
formal language
Planning to write
Listen for gist and detail
Complete a quiz based
on English vocabulary,
customs, places etc
Write your own
reply to a
problem
Roleplay: Job interview
Interactive
whiteboard
Dictionaries
Multiple choice – pair work
Blog: We can’t
afford Santa this
year!
Big paper and
pens
Dictionaries
CD
What are the 12
days of
Christmas?
Find and learn
Quiz
CD player
Answer sheet
Crossword
Reading ex
Gap fill
Letter to Santa (groups)
Christmas songs
Teams
23/12/09
CHRISTMAS BREAK
30/12/09
CHRISTMAS BREAK
Week 12
Week 13
Unit 5 – The
Consumer
Society
Unit 6 The
Sound of
Music
Discuss themes
associated with
shopping
Listen for detail
Identify phrasal verbs
with ‘right’
Countable and
uncountable nouns and
verb agreement
Review of possessives
Preposition review
Discuss the effect that
music can have on
mood, motivation etc.
Identify key ideas and
linking phrases in a text
Sequence text
Identify the purpose of a
text
Use modals to express
likelihood
Predict meaning from
context
Recognise some
common adverb –
Observation of key words
used
Gap fill ex – phrases
Gap fill – single words
Error correction – pair work
Objective
proficiency
CD + player
Flip chart stand
and paper
Dictionaries
Writing folder
pg 22
Units 1-4
revision pg 40 +
41
Crossword
page 189
Objective
proficiency
CD + player +
music (Mozart)
paper/pens
Dictionaries
Paper 1, part 3
exam question
Grammar exercise
Gap fill
Production of key vocabulary
Gapped text exercise
Pair work – ordering ex
Group work – produce text
Grammar exercises and
word formations
Gapped text
Listening extract/
Gapped text
Listening comprehension
Gap fill
Week 14
Unit 7 –Vision
on
adjective/participle
collocations
Recognise some
common music word
idioms
Listen for attitude
Listen for gist
Listen for detail
Recognise some
common ‘eye’ idioms
Recognise and use
participles(incl.
Passives)
Summarise text
Week 15
Unit 8 – Urban
Jungle
Discuss for/against life in
a city
Skim text for style
+genre
Elicit the meaning of
words/phrases from
context
Identify and construct
compound nouns
React to the use of
vocabulary with negative
connotations
Recognise and recreate
the use of inversion in
formal English
Discuss and present
ideas on a given subject
Listening extracts – multi
choice
Objective
proficiency
CD player
Dictionaries
Exam folder 4
page 64+65
Objective
proficiency
CD player
Dictionaries
Exercise 4 page
69
Writing folder
page73
Q&A
Reading – underline
participles
Matching exercises
Paragraph summaries – pair
work
Small group work
Observation
Q&A
Multi-choice
Pair work
Paraphrasing ex
Q&A
Pair work
Gap fill
Week 16
Unit 9 – Fitting
in
*See Jack for
example of
Esperanto
Week 17
Feb15th
Week 18
Unit 10 globalisation
Unit 11 – For
better, for
worse
Discuss appropriate
clothing for particular
occasions
Identify some common
collocations
Listen to a conversation
for
agreement/disagreement
Recognise and use
some common
expressions with ‘come’
Identify verb patterns
Form groups of prefixes
Identify and use
adjectives
Discuss languagechanges and
development etc
Scan text for information
Identify reference
devices used in text
Review structures with
‘wish’ ‘if only’
Listen for gist and detail
Listen for detail and infer
meaning from what is
said
Identify some common
idioms and phrasal
Group work
Objective
proficiency
CD player
Dictionaries
Pictures(clothing)
Revision
exercises pages
74 +75
Writing exercise
Objective
proficiency
CD player
Dictionaries
Example of
Esperanto text
Exercise 7 page
85
Exercise 7 page
87
Exercise 5 page
89
Objective
proficiency
CD player
Dictionaries
Ex 7 page 95
Summary task
Exam folder
page 99
Matching ex
Gap fill
Error identification
Exercises
Written questions
Exercise 5
Q&A
Exercises
Multi choice ex
HALF TERM BREAK
Multi choice
Gap fill
Week 19
Week 20
Unit 12 – At
the cutting
edge
Unit 13 – Save
the planet
verb/noun collocations
Recognise gradable and
ungradable adjectives
Reformulate phrases
from a text
Summarise two texts on
a common theme
Engage in discussion –
express personal
opinions
Identify key phrases and
linking words in a text in
order to insert
paragraphs
Review and use passive
structures
Use passive infinitives
and participle forms
accurately
Plan a two minute
presentation
Identify key phrases
used in discussion
Discuss environmental
problems and solutions
Listen for gist and detail
Review use of reported
speech and reporting
verbs
Discuss and present
ideas on biodiversity
Recognise and
understand vocabulary,
rhetorical and stylistic
Gap fill
Matching ex
Elicit key vocab
Reading comprehension
task
Objective
proficiency
CD player
Dictionaries
Ex 6 page 105
Ex6 page 107
Unit 9-12
revision
Objective
proficiency
CD player
Dictionaries
Ex 8 page 115
Summary task
page 117
Exam folder
page 120
Q&A
Re-writing sentences
Error correction
Gap fill
Present
information/comment/discuss
Pair work
Multiple choice
Pair work
Sentence formation
Group work
Reading comprehension
Week 21
Week 22
Week 23
Unit 14 – Get
fit, live longer
Register ss for
L2 lit exam
Unit 15 – The
Daily grind
Unit 16 –
Hidden
nuances
devices in text
Discuss issues around
health and fitness
Scan text for first
impressions
Read text for detail
Identify register in a text
Use language to convey
register
Review use of articles
Identify some common
errors with prepositions
Listen to a text to
ascertain content
Practise
stress/pronunciation of
verbs and adjectives
Listen for gist and detail
Identify and use some
common phrases
Discuss gender
differences at work
Predict meaning from
context
Use linking words in text
Summarise text – write
an academic text
Read a text for attitude
and nuance
Identify the use of
concessive clauses
Give and ask for
Group work
Q&A
Objective
proficiency
CD player
Dictionaries
Level 2 lit past
paper
Writing folder
page 126
Objective
proficiency
CD player
Dictionaries
Exam folder
page 134+135
Objective
proficiency
CD player
Dictionaries
Excerpts from
CPE past paper
Unit 13 – 16
revision
Multi choice
Matching ex
Pair work
Gap fill
Gap fill
Yes/no answers
Drill
Multi choice questions
Pair work
Small groups
Gap fill
Clause linking exercise
Summary writing task
Reading comprehension
Multi choice ex
Construct concessive
clauses using conjunctions
Observation
opinions on the subject
of books
Justify opinions
Plan a spoken
presentation
April 5th
Week 24
21st April
Easter Holiday
Mock CPE
exam
Week 25
Level 2 lit
exam
Week 26
Week 27
Exam practice
Exam practice
Exam practice
End of Course Activities
book review
programme