Universidad Abierta Para Adultos

(UAPA)

Subject
Special English Didactics
Theme:
The grammar translation method
Presented by:
Francisco González Serrano
Registration number:
14-7202
Group:
70
Teacher:
Mohamed El Fakhkhari
- Write an essay where you will describe one specific method or technique
for English teaching. Then prepare your lesson plan.
This work must be organised according to the following methodology:
1-Sheet of presentation

2- Topic (Chosen method of English learning)

The grammar translation method
3- Keywords (most important words of the essay)
Method, plans, strategies, advantages and disadvantages, lesson, goal, aim.
4- Introduction
In this essay I will present a teaching. On it I will using the grammar translation
method. I will give some details of my chosen teaching method. In a concept
map I will present the advantages and disadvantages of the grammar
translation method. Also I am going to be showing the difficulties and solution to
overcome those difficulties of the method already mentioned. Finally I will
present a design of my own teaching plan.
5- Development
5. 1. Introduce the chosen method of English Learning.

This first method is based in an exchange of the knowledge of the student’s

mother language and the new language’s one. It is useful for literature
situations, it means, basically, for written texts, comprehension.
The grammar translation method allows the teacher and the students to use the
mother language to translate and create references from one language to the
other. This way, the students become capable of recognizing similar
constructions and built in their heads the ones that are new.

5. 2. Explain in details the chosen method of English Learning.

The grammar translation method maintains close association between the
foreign language and the mother tongue. It lays emphasis on speech. It follows
the adults’ natural way of leaning a new language. This method teaches formal
grammar. I chose this method for my lesson plan because of two reasons: One I
am supposed to teach people from the very beginning level and my reason
number two is that I consider that the grammar translation method is the most
appropriated method for beginner learners.
 5. 3. Advantages and disadvantages of the chosen method of
English Learning. (Use only a concept map in this point).

The grammar translation

method

Advantages Disadvantages

Translation is the
It is good at
shortest and
teaching about the
easiest way of
language, however
explaining
it is not good at
meaning and
teaching the
phrases.
language

Learners have no
difficulties to
Students lack an
understand the
active role in the
lesson as it is
classroom.
carried out in the
mother tongue

It does not Very little attention

consume the time is paid to
in fishing the communacation
syllabus

It is very useful for The students don’t

the average and develop the power
below average of thinking in the
students. target language.
 5. 4. Difficulties related to the chosen method of English Learning.
There are many thorns that can mortify us during the translation process,
whatever the nature of the text we face, and translators should be aware of
them. The first problem is related to reading and comprehension ability in the
source language. Once the translator has coped with this obstacle, the most
frequent translation difficulties are of a semantic and cultural nature, linguistic
untranslatability (cognates, i.e. true and false friends, calque, and other forms
of interference; institutional and standardized terms, neologisms, aphorisms,
etc.), and cultural untranslatability, (idioms, sayings, proverbs, jokes, puns, etc.).
One should adopt a very cautious attitude toward these words or expressions
so as to avoid interference and/or language misuse.
5. 5. Solutions to overcome learning difficulties according to the
chosen method of English Learning.
From my own point of you I think that one of the solutions to overcome the
difficulties related to the grammar translation method is this way, when I have
used the grammar translation method during a certain time with my student then
I start using the direct method.

Feedback of the teacher

Francisco, I see that you analyzed deeply every element of the topic and you designed
well your lesson plan. very good. pay attention to the bibliography according to APA
method. Please, check out this point in the following link: http://www.bibme.org/citation-
guide/apa/
6-Your lesson plan.
Instructor Lesson Planning Worksheet
Use this worksheet to plan a lesson on a specific topic. Remember that a
lesson may extend over more than one class session.
Lesson Topic The topic of the lesson is Lifestyles
Lesson Goals
Linguistic content:
Using simple present tense to talk about ‘’ Routine or habitual activity’’
Adverbs and expression of frequency. So students will express how often they
do certain things.
Questions using how often/how much/how long. Students will ask questions
each other using these words to figure out the time their partners spend doing
certain activities.
Communication tasks:
Reading event listing in a magazine.
Students will read about ‘’Cell phone obsession’’
Students will complete exercises about the reading and fill out some
questionnaire to elicit their reading comprehension.
Learning strategies:
Selective attention
I will model selective attention
Students will practice the structure target.
Structure
Preparation (10 minutes)
When the students are set to start the lesson will chat with them about how
often they do some activities like watching TV, talking by phone, using the
internet, check their emails, going shopping
Things they like to do and the time they spend on them
Outline goals for today’s class
What teacher will do:
Ask them questions about their routines
Ask them about their favorite hobbies
Discuss native speakers pronunciation (reduction of ‘’do you’’ when pronounced
quickly.
What students will do:
Students respond to about their routines and favorite hobbies or pastimes
Students practice pronunciations using the auxiliary ‘’do’’
Evaluation (8 minutes)

What teacher will do:

Ask the students the way they use adverb expressions to talk the frequency
they do some activities.
What students will do:
The students respond using different adverb expressions.
Expansion
The students bring three written examples using the simple present to talk
about routines.

Materials
Required Materials:
Homework exercise on the simple present tense using adverb of frequency.
Text book section on ‘’Simple present’’
Authentic Materials:
Weekend TV show on routines
Listening on favorite pastime
Reading on adverb expressions.
7- Conclusion
A lesson plan is so important because it leads the teachers to reach their goals
in a teaching process. According to the lecture a plan is the map that will point
out to the teachers where to go and what to do, without it the teachers won’t
have a clear goal to reach and their or objectives he wants his students to reach
will be uncertain.
8- Bibliography
Resorces from the platform

Feedback of the teacher

Francisco, I see that you analyzed deeply every element of the topic and you
designed well your lesson plan. very good. pay attention to the bibliography
according to APA method. Please, check out this point in the following link:
http://www.bibme.org/citation-guide/apa/