1. English Communication III
English Seminar II
English Communication III
Week Two

2. Today’s plan
Warm-up chat CLT quiz Authentic texts Lesson using CLT

3. Warm-up
Pair chat What did you do on the weekend?

4. Please think back to last week’s lesson.
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Revision Quiz
Please think back to last week’s lesson.
Write the answer to these questions.
We’ll check your answers at the end.
There are 10 questions.

5. English Seminar II
Quiz
1. What does CLT stand for?

6. 2. Why was CLT first developed?
English Seminar II
Quiz
2. Why was CLT first developed?

7. English Seminar II
Quiz
3. What is the aim of CLT?

8. 4. What is the method used in CLT?
English Seminar II
Quiz
4. What is the method used in CLT?

9. English Seminar II
Quiz
5. Where do I come from?

10. CLT means that grammar is not important.
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Quiz
6. True or False.
CLT means that grammar is not important.

11. 7. What is your major assessment in this course?
English Seminar II
Quiz
7. What is your major assessment in this course?

12. The teacher is not important in a CLT classroom
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8. True or False
The teacher is not important in a CLT classroom

13. English Seminar II
Quiz
9. What does my name mean?

14. 10. What might a CLT classroom look like?
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10. What might a CLT classroom look like?

16. Communicative Language Teaching
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Quiz
What does CLT stand for?
Communicative Language Teaching

17. 2. Why was CLT first developed?
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2. Why was CLT first developed?
Because language learning in Europe was focused on grammar, learners lacked skill in communicating with others

18. English Seminar II
Quiz
3. What is the aim of CLT?
Communication

19. 4. What is the method used in CLT? Communication
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Quiz
4. What is the method used in CLT?
Communication

20. English Seminar II
Quiz
5. Where do I come from?
Australia

21. CLT means that grammar is not important.
English Seminar II
Quiz
6. True or False.
CLT means that grammar is not important.
False. It is important. But students practice grammar through communication (not drills).

22. 7. What is your major assessment in this course?
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Quiz
7. What is your major assessment in this course?
In-class discussions, and
Teaching a lesson using CLT

23. The teacher is not important in a CLT classroom
English Seminar II
Quiz
8. True or False
The teacher is not important in a CLT classroom
False. The teacher is important, but they are not at the centre of the learning

24. Shannon – a river in Ireland
English Seminar II
Quiz
9. What does my name mean?
Shannon – a river in Ireland

25. 10. What might a CLT classroom look like?
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Quiz
10. What might a CLT classroom look like?
Students facing each other
Students talking
Students doing

26. Authentic texts
An important feature of CLT methodology is the use of authentic texts. What do you think an authentic text is?

27. Authentic texts
An authentic text is information that is written by native speakers and for native speakers. A text can take many forms. It can be written or visual.

28. Magazine advertisement
Authentic texts
Written texts
Audio-Visual texts
Novel
Newspaper article
Comic book
Train timetable
Menu
Cereal box
Song lyrics
etc.
TV program
TV Commercial
Billboard
Magazine advertisement
TED talk
Presentation
Real conversation

29. Authentic texts
Authentic texts are important because sometimes textbooks can be unnatural. Textbooks are good to teach us correct grammar, but in everyday conversation we rarely speak in perfect sentences, and we often ignore grammar rules.

30. Topic: Identity and race in Japan Please look at the lesson plan
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CLT Lesson
Aim: For students to practice their English communication skills while learning about and discussing a current topic
Topic: Identity and race in Japan
Please look at the lesson plan

31. Look at the survey and take turns to read each item.
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Who is Japanese?
Look at the survey and take turns to read each item.
Rate your personal opinion from strongly agree to strongly disagree.
Share your answers with your class and discuss.

32. Group discussion Assessment English Seminar II
Some facts about Australia
Australia has a population of around 23 million people
A little about the history …
25% of Australians were born overseas
43% of Australians had a parent born overseas
One of the most multicultural countries in the world

33. Group discussion Assessment English Seminar II
In Australia, due to its unique culture and history, birthplace is not aligned so closely to national identity.
Here are two results from a survey of 1,200 about what makes an ‘Australian’
How important is being born in Australia?
How important is being able to speak English?

34. Speed chat Topic: ハーフ in Japan English Seminar II
What do you think of this word?
Do you think it is positive, negative, or neutral?
Do you know personally any ハーフ?
What famous ハーフ do you know?
^What do you know about them?
How are ハーフ usually represented in the media?

35. Group discussion
Do you know who this is?
Ariana Miyamoto
Born in Sasebo
Mother is Japanese
Father is African American
Represented Japan
at 2015 Miss Universe contest

36. Let’s read an article and watch a news report about Ariana Miyamoto
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Let’s read an article and watch a news report
about Ariana Miyamoto
The New York Times
BBC news
Take 1 minute – tell your partner your impression of this newspaper article
Take 1 minute – tell your partner your impression of this news report

37. Please summarise the main points
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Summarising
Please summarise the main points
of these two news items in a few lines.
Let’s share with the group

38. Group discussion Assessment English Seminar II
Q. How important is ‘race’ in developing a Japanese identity?
Q. How important is place of birth in developing a Japanese
identity?

39. Group discussion Assessment English Seminar II
Q. What other things make a person ‘Japanese’?
Q. Can anyone be/become ‘Japanese’?

40. Assessment
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Group discussion．There are currently an average of 20,000 babies born in Japan each year, with one Japanese and one non-Japanese parent (1 in 50 births)
Q. What challenges do you think there are for ‘haafu’ and foreign-born children being raised in Japan?
Q. ^ How can society overcome some of these challenges?

41. Go around the group and share one sentence about
Assessment
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Reflection
Go around the group and share one sentence about
something you learnt or felt today
something you found interesting, or
something you would like to learn more about

43. See you next week