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Teacher’s guide
1. Objectives
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Introducing students to terms and expressions.
Providing the tools for students to feel able to write and speak in English at an
intermediate level.
Creating potentially real situations in which students need to use English.
Generating a proper environment in which students feel comfortable
experimenting their relationship with the English language.
Building up student self-esteem regarding English.
Having a good time while learning.
2. Use of the materials and teacher’s recommendations
This material is mostly designed for use in digital form.
Every unit has three kinds of activities. It’s important to follow the order or the activities
because the complexity increases as the unit ends.
There are three kinds of activities:
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Introduction activities: the student is introduced in the vocabulary
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Input activities: there are different exercises to practise the vocabulary learned
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Sum-up activities: there are more difficult exercises where student has to show all
that he/she has learnt.
It’s also important to start with unit 1 and follow the order of activities. Also the complexity
increases.
3. Methodology
It’s important to do classes in a computer class. Every student needs a computer. At the
same time, it’s important to see the sum-up activities. Some of them don’t need
computers.
A planning of every unit is provided so the teacher can start the introduction activities
together and after the introduction, every student can work alone. When they arrive to
the sum-up activities, the teacher can collect the class work or the exercises that they
have done.
Every unit starts with vocabulary about something about medicine. With the first activity,
students watch and listen to vocabulary.
With input activities they practise. The teacher can evaluate the memory games, fill the
gaps and crosswords activities.
Finally, when a student finishes a unit there is always a writing, a listening or a video that
they have to do. The teacher has to help them and correct exercises. It’s not necessary
to do an exam.
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4. Assessment
The teacher has a lot of things to evaluate. Every unit has the input activities (memory
games, fill the gaps, crosswords). And there are the sum-up activities that he/she can
also evaluate (writing, recording, video…).
One way to assess the students is:
UNIT 1
Introduction activities
15%
Memory
15%
Fill the gaps
15%
Recording your voice
15%
UNIT 2
Match the words
15%
Cross words
15%
Going to the doctor’s writing
20%
UNIT 3
Introduction activities
15%
Memory
15%
Writing
20%
summary
20%
UNIT 4
Crossword
15%
Vade mecum
15%
Script
20%
Video
30%
Final mark:
15% (introduction activities +memory+ fill the gaps + match the words + cross
words / 8) + 20 % (writings + summary + script/3) + 15% (recording voice + vade
mecum / 2) + 20% script + 30% video
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5. Other considerations
All the introductory and input activities are individual. But the sum-up activities are in
group.
If you don’t have a computer class, you can do the introductory activity together with the
teacher’s computer and a projector.
If you don’t have computers when you are doing the input activities, you can only print
the crosswords, the fill the gaps or the matching exercises the words. The memory
games are not possible to do without computers.
Finally, if you don’t have computers when you are doing the sum-up activities, don’t
worry, you can project the activity and students do it (watching a video, writing,
listening…).
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