ELTAF Workshop 22 nd June 2013 Claire Hart
1) Approaches to course design a. Some key terms b. Three recipes for course design - case studies 2) Top ten tips for designing worksheets
What is: A course Personalisation Tailor-made A negotiated syllabus Course design
Design Leaners´needs Stakeholders´expectations What´s possible A course
Topic-driven Communication situation analysis JIT (Just In Time)
1.Topic options 2.Choose 5 or 6 topics 3.What vocab? grammar? 4.4 skills work 5.Business skills Spend 4- 5 weeks on each topic
Context: In-company Industry: Construction Timeframe: 38 weeks Participants: 8 Level: mixed from high A2 to B2 Jobs: salesman, quality engineer, civil engineer, architect Needs: -> Broaden knowledge of industry-specific vocabulary -> Improve accuracy -> Work on business skills, especially telephoning and ing
Week 1: Starting a conversation Week 2: Tenses review -> present simple, continuous & perfect, past simple Week 3: Have you ever? Week 4: Technology landmarks Week 5: Showing interest
Skills SpeakingStarting a conversation Discussing experiences Showing interest WritingMaking notes ReadingReading model conversations ListeningActive listening
GrammarVocab
We spent 7 weeks on this topic In particular we spent a lot of time working on tenses I realised we needed to focus more on conversation strategies and techniques The learners enjoyed working on this topic
Be consistent
Use boxes and tables
Use tabs, bullets and numbering
Leave space for the learners
1Concrete is used to ______ build walls ______. 2Copper is used to _________________________. 3Steel is used to _________________________. 4Fibreglass is used to _________________________. 5Carbon is used to _________________________. 6PVC is used to _________________________.
Use images
Use a variety of activity types
Matching pictures with words Matching words with meanings Matching sentence halves Matching questions and answers Ordering conversations Categorising words True or false
Try jumbled phrases
Ask a different question
What does Karsten want to know? Why? Consequences?
Include topics and issues that matter to the learners
The learners should know or be able to do something at the end of the lesson that they didn´t know or couldn´t do at the start of the lesson Michael Swan
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