Ss are asked to make a list of pros and cons of teaching in different age groups
Ss have a short debate advocating their own age groups
T summarizes the debate results and states that each age group has its own challenges and states that the present course will cover the practical considerations of teaching different age groups.
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Activity 2 “What is the course about?” (15-20 min)
Ask participants to make predictions about the course and invite them to fill in the table (Handout 6) in pairs:
Distribute the course syllabus and assessment specifications
Ask participants to compare their answers to the syllabus
Invite participants to ask clarification questions about the syllabus and assessment specifications
Ask “What changes do you want to make in the syllabus or assessment specifications to cater to your teaching context?”
Summarise the session by stating that age is an important factor in teaching and learning foreign languages and teachers need to be age-sensitive while planning and managing their lessons, along with assessing their students performances.
TDA: Warm-up, Handout 1 “Jokes” Read the jokes Student: “ I haven’t got no pencil.”
Teacher, correcting him: “ You don’t have any pencil. He doesn’t have any pencils. We don’t have any pencils.”
Student, with a look of astonishment: “Where have all the pencils gone?”
TEACHER : PAPPU, give me a sentence starting with "I".
PAPPU : I is...
TEACHER : No, PAPPU. Always say, "I am."
PAPPU : All right... "I am the ninth letter of the alphabet."
Stressing the importance of a good vocabulary, the teacher told her young charges, "Use a word ten times, and it shall be yours for life."
From somewhere in the back of the room, came a small male voice chanting, "Amanda, Amanda, Amanda, Amanda, Amanda, Amanda, Amanda, Amanda, Amanda, Amanda."
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Physics Teacher: "Isaac Newton was sitting under a tree when an apple fell on his head and he discovered gravity. Isn't that wonderful?"
Student: "Yes sir, if he had been sitting in class looking at books like us, he wouldn't have discovered anything."
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A lecturer teaching medicine was giving a class on “Observation”. He took out a jar of yellow
liquid. "This," he explained, "is urine. To be a doctor, you have to be observant of color, smell, sight, and taste."
After saying so, he dipped his finger into the jar and put it into his mouth. His class watched in amazement, most in disgust. But being the good students that they were, the jar was passed, and one by one, they dipped their finger into the jar and put it into their mouths.
After the last student was done, the lecturer shook his head. "If any of you had been observant, you would have noticed that I put my second finger into the jar and my third finger into my mouth."
