MATERIALS:
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board and markers
Unit 2 Study and Learning: categorising
Objective: to provide further practice of this soft skill
within the area of
Study and Learning (identifying and
categorising different ways to study a foreign language).
The three-step strategy for developing this soft skill is:
Step 1 Understand the purpose of categorising.
(Ex. A)
Step 2 Categorise the items using relevant
characteristics. (Ex. B, Ex. C)
Step 3 Use the information to make a decision.
(Ex. D)
You may decide to highlight this
strategy at the
beginning of the lesson, at the end, or as you go through
the exercises. However, if you prefer to teach this lesson
without discussing the underlying soft skill, this is also
possible. The lesson is designed to be engaging and
successful either way.
For more information about teaching life skills and
ideas for how to highlight the soft skill, please refer to
pp. 18–19 of the
Elementary Level Teacher’s Book.
Lead-in
To set the context for this lesson, ask the students why
people learn foreign languages. Write their ideas on the
board (e.g.
some people want to travel; others need to
speak another language at work; others have to learn
a second language at university; some people learn
languages for pleasure
).
If you wish, ask the students to recall the lesson from
the
Elementary Student’s Book, pp. 28–29 and say what
they learnt (e.g.
that items in a category have the same
or similar characteristics; that categorising can help us
organise information and make decisions, that things
can go in more than one category
etc).