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Task 1: Correct the mistakes in the following sentences and explain why it is wrong (as if you were
explaining it to a student).
a) I havent got no brothers.
b) There is a milk in the fridge.
c) What do you do last Saturday?
d) Im knowing him very well.
Task 2: Imagine you are doing a lesson on the Present perfect and a student doesnt 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, Im sorry, I dont know.

Ask other students if they can explain it.

Quickly make something up.

Say, Its too complicated. Dont worry about it!

Situation 2: You have to teach a lesson.

What would you do to prepare for the lesson?

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

Secondary School. He was wrote a 25 books from 1927 to

1965. He got married in 1927. His wifes 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 mistake
b) write the correct version in the space provided
c) write, in simple terms, as if speaking to a learner of English, how you would
explain the correction
a) Id like some informations about the courses.
Certainly, heres our brochure.

b) Have you got any money?

Yes, Ive been to the bank yesterday.

c) What did you do last night?

I watched a very bored programme on television.

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 these
sentences?
Ive got a headache.
Ive 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 think
learners are likely to have with the English language? Write about 200 words. Your
answer could comment on some of the following: tenses, vocabulary, pronunciation,
spelling, word order and meaning.