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A C.A.L.L.-Based Integrated Skills Lesson Plan for EFL Students

David Oliver

David.Oliver at Gmail dot com

I. Topic: Happiness

A. Introductory Prompt: Is happiness a choice?

B. Can people choose to be happy, content? or do people choose to be unhappy, depressed?

II .. Content- Understanding the nature of choice and how it affects our lives, our states of minds and the people we affect.

Lexis:

Single words : mood, choose, choice, enjoy, enjoyment, enjoyable, cheer, cheerfulness, content, contentment, delight, delightful, glad, gladness, good mood, happy, happiness joy, miserable optimistic, pleasure, sad, sadness.

Prefixes : un-, dis,

Suffixes : -ness, -ment, - ic , -ful, -able

A. To help students recognize their own errors in writing and

pronunciation

III .. To teach students basic word processing skills:

IV. Objectives- To use a module capable of integrating a variety of tasks into a 12 -16 hour lesson. The tasks can include open discussions, peer discussions, brainstorming, comprehension quizzes, content-based readings selected for vocabulary, organization and development of ideas and modeling, writing drafts based on an outline listening for intonation, emphasis and pronunciation.

V. Materials and Aids- a content-based reading, a computer which has a word processing program, text-to-speech software which have natural voice plug-ins and a screen interface similar to Microsoft Word ( Next-Up's Text-Aloud ) headsets with microphones, CDRW.

VI .. Procedures/Methods-

A. Introduction-

1. Begin with a teacher guided discussion. For the following

example , "happiness" is the topic. The discussion can begin with a

general discussion of what happiness is. The discussion can be

followed by a reading or two on the subject. Students generate a

mind map which the teacher draws on the white board.

B. Development-

1. Have the students write a paragraph on the topic.

C. Practice-

During the first draft, the teacher helps the students to add

details or find words and phrases. This is the first part of a

dictation exercise. The students write and spell what they hear.

D. Independent Practice-

The students type their handwritten essays and save them on a floppy

disk or, if available, a learning management system like Blackboard or Moodle..

E. Accommodations (Differentiated Instruction)-

The teacher revises the paragraph making minor adjustments such as

adding a phrase or more accurate word but is careful not to change

the students' ideas or concepts. The teacher copies and pastes both

versions into the text-to-speech software and records both versions,

saving them as mp3s.

F. Checking for understanding-

The student hears both versions of the assignment. The corrected

version is retyped as a dictation exercise--again.

G. Closure-

The teacher helps the students to record the version they've

retyped . This is saved to a disk.

VII. Evaluation- Quiz marks, student effort and cooperation, fluency in production of spoken impromptu and rehearsed English

 

 

 

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