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Mohammad Qushoy - 0201618014
Following a Set Format
When designing the format of a lesson, the curriculum designer
needs to consider :
involves an experience-
providing stage, a guided
practice stage, and then a
fluency-development stage.
“threads” activities that run through a
series of lessons.
Experiences Activities
Shared Activities
Guided Activities
Independent Activities
Experience activities
The teacher, curriculum designer or materials writer
carefully controls the language, ideas, skills, etc. so that
they will be largely already familiar to the learners.
try to keep as
much as The knowledge needed to do the activity is provided through
possible of the previous lessons or previous activities within a lesson. Speaking
knowledge activities near the end of a lesson, or the listening activities at the
needed to beginning of a lesson may be like this. This results in a lesson
format that builds up to a final activity or set of activities that are
perform the the main point of the lesson.
activity within
the learners’ The teacher helps the learners to share and recall previous
previous experience to make the following activity easier. This results
experience. in a lesson format that may begin with teacher-led
discussion or group work and ends with what otherwise
may have been quite a demanding task. Examples include
discussion of a topic followed by each learner writing
about it, and semantic mapping of a topic followed by
speaking about it.
Shared activities
Nation (1989b) describes four major kinds of group work
the learners work with The four types of activities can all be used in a
no assistance or course and it is desirable that they are. This is
preparation. They can because each provides a different kind of
draw on their skills learning goal and means of learning. Each kind
and make use of other of activity makes use of a different set of
resources, but principles and it is useful to look carefully at
essentially they are in major activity types within a course to examine
control of their own these principles and see if they agree with
learning. principles based on research and theory.
Tasks and Presentation