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ASSIGNMENT – LANGUAGE SKILLS Assessment Criteria for the Language Assignment Successful candidates can demonstrate their learning by: • Analysing language correctly for teaching purposes; • Correctly using terminology relating to form, meaning and phonology when analysing language; • Accessing reference materials and referencing information they have learned about language to an appropriate source; and • Using written language that is clear and accurate and appropriate to the task. Context Choose an authentic reading or listening text from a magazine, newspaper or other source. Attach the text (or tapescript if appropriate). Design tasks and materials for a 60 minute lesson based on the text you have chosen, commenting on the following areas (A-F). Refer to Scrivener, Chapter 8. You may decide to teach the lesson as one of the one hour lessons of teaching practice, so choose the level accordingly and consider student needs and motivation in your choice of text. Show it to your tutor before you start this assignment. NB When choosing the text be sure that you are observing copyright law. A. LEVEL AND CHOICE OF TEXT 1. Name the level you think this material would be suitable for. Upper Intermediate Level 2. Give the rationale for choosing this text for this group of learners. The chosen text is a relatively short article (2 pages; 294 words) with a range of vocabulary and language structures which will challenge the language skills and systems learners at the Upper Intermediate level but should not intimidate them. The particular class is certainly motivated to learn and I believe that they will be able to manage the text confidently. The article covers a topic from Australian Football. It has been sourced from the AFL website and modified for the purpose of the lesson. It is one of a series of 5 articles (and possibly audio tapes) which cover a range of topics covering a range of information and issues from Australian Football all of which are pitched to the Upper Intermediate level. I believe Australian Football would be very interesting for the learners as it deals with sport and in this case a uniquely Australian sport. Many students are very interested in sport. Those learners not so interested in sport may be more interested in the article from a cultural perspective. Many of the learners would have originated from countries where there is only one code of football. Very few would have witnessed football codes which have a high level of physical contact as there is in Australian Football and the rugby codes. B. CONTEXT 1. To set the context I would play an audio tape of a segment of a radio (or TV) broadcast of an AFL game. I would ask the students to write some key words which would describe the activity they can hear. I expect that they would be able to distinguish key words like “kick” “run” and “goal”. I would elicit more detail from the students by asking the following questions: Are the speakers describing a fast activity' Are they talking about sport' Which sport do you think it might be' Have you played this sport in your home country' I would use prediction by Prediction is important because C. VOCABULARY 1. The following vocabulary from the text have been identified as potentially presenting problems for the learners in subsequent tasks. 2. 3. I would pre-teach D. COMPREHENSION TASKS 1. Gist Task 2. Specific Information Task E. EXTENSION TO ANOTHER SKILL (ETAS) F. LANGUAGE FOCUS Australian Football – the AFL AFL chronology http://www.afl.com.au/ Casual viewers of Australian Football often get an impression of brutal anarchy from watching it, and some Aussies don't mind perpetuating that. The traditional aspects of the game including high marking, clever ruck play, fierce tackling. Over time new law interpretations have seen the number of stoppages being reduced. The more continuous and free flowing style of football has added to spectator appeal. The Founders In 1857, Tom Wills and his friends devised the game of Australian Football. Tom had returned to Australia after attending the famous Rugby School in England where he was football captain and a brilliant cricketer. Initially, he advocated the game of football as a way of keeping cricketers fit during winter which was the off-season. The First Club, the First Match The Melbourne Football Club was formed on August 7, 1858 – the year of the code’s first recorded match between Scotch College and Melbourne Grammar School. The First Competition The game quickly blossomed. In 1866 an updated set of rules was put in place and competition started. The Victorian Football League was established in 1896 and the following year the League’s first games were played among the foundation clubs – Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, Geelong, Melbourne, St Kilda and South Melbourne. The Expansion to a National Competition The decade of the 1990s began a new era in the game. The league adopted the much more national official name - the Australian Football League, acknowledging the national expansion, with clubs now in Sydney, Queensland & Perth, Queensland Clubs By 1997, the competition comprised 16 clubs. Foundation club Fitzroy merged with the Brisbane Bears to form the Brisbane Lions after the 1996 season. In 2011 a new Queensland team will join the AFL competition. It will be based on the Gold Coast. 2 pages 294 words 1537 characters 41 lines 15 paragraphs