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TEACHING A FOREIGN LANFUAGE TO DIFFERENT AGE GROUPS

Topic:	The role of the teacher in teaching a foreign language to different ages and adaptation to the audience. Part 1-2
Time:	80 minutes
Aim: Materials:	to raise students’ awareness of issues in teaching different age groups to familiarize students with a new course to give students an opportunity to develop their critical thinking abilities through tasks and readings 1. Spratt, M (1994) English for the Teacher, Cambridge University Press 2. James, P. (2001). Teachers in Action. Cambridge and New York: CUP

Objectives:

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  to raise participants’ awareness of different approaches and attitudes to teaching mixed ability classes
  
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  to raise participants’ awareness of the impact that teachers’ attitudes to mixed ability classes have on learners
  
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  to help participants explore and evaluate different strategies that can be used when teaching mixed ability classes
  

Lead in
Time: 5 min
Materials: board, markers
Procedure:

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  ☺ (5 min) Ask participants the following questions:
  
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  Warm-up:
  
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  Answer the questions:
  
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  1. What age group is best to teach?
  
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  2. How will you approach teaching students of different ages?
  
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  3. What is a teacher responsibility in the classroom?
  
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  4. What makes a good teacher?
  

Establish that a mixed ability group is a group where students differ in terms of language background, learning speed, learning ability and motivation, language level, learning styles etc. Write the following question on the board:

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  What level should we teach towithin a mixed ability group and how?
  

Ask participants to think about this question but not to answer it immediately. Tell participants that we will try to answer it in this session.