1. Self-Learning 2011-2012 Week 4_level 5 & 6 King Saud University Preparatory Year Deanship Intensive English Program

2. You see some blocks. The blocks remind you of your childhood. In this action, what is your mind doing? RememberingUnderstandingCreating

3. After the teacher explains a lesson, she asks you some questions about the lesson. In this action, what were you doing in order to answer? AnalyzingUnderstanding applying

4. Your teacher told you a story. You understood it. Now, the teacher asks you to act it out. In this action, what are you doing? Analyzing Understanding Applying

5. You want to buy a mobile phone. You see two nice phones. You can’t decide which one you like more. You start thinking of the good applications and the problems of each one. In this action, what is your mind doing? AnalyzingCreatingRemembering

6. Your friend just gave a presentation about her project. The teacher asked you to say what was good about the presentation and how it was useful for you? In this case, you need to do what? Applying Understanding Evaluating

7. When the teacher asks you to design an invitation card, what will you be doing? CreatingAnalyzingRemembering

9. Understanding Applying Analyzing Evaluating Creating Higher Order of Thinking Lower Order of Thinking

10. My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas. What is the idea that connects all the initials in this sentence? All initials in this sentence list the planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto Warmer More thinking?!! We use ‘Acrostics’ to remember words in a list

11. On the ball Can you guess the meaning of the following expression? Today all my students are on the ball. They all did the work efficiently. What about…. Activity 1 Do you want to learn more techniques that can enhance your memory?

12. Will it be easy now to remember this idiom? Why? We remember the context the idiom was in

13. This is one of the memory enhancement techniques? Do you know what it is called? Association

14. How did the association technique help you with idioms? Contextualizing We need to associate difficult meanings with certain contexts to be easily remembered

15. Can you think of other ways to better recall and remember the meaning of idioms? Now, are you ready for a challenge?

16. In pairs, read the idioms in bold. What do they have in common? They all use games expressions In pairs, read the story and guess the meaning of the idioms then Answer the worksheet Activity 2

17. Now, are you ready for more challenge?

18. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Activity 3 The four words in each group have something in common. What are they all connected with?

19. What do you think this technique of association is? Categorization We need to organize words under their respective groups to be easily remembered in whole or part

20. Free Practice/ student-generated activity -T divides ss into 4 groups. -She asks each group to think of a name of a category and choose another group to give the parts of this category. Activity 4

21. Why are we studying remembering in self-learning? It improves our thinking. It is one of the self-learning tools (Individual Study Technique)

22. Association Contextualization To associate the idioms to a context in order to be recalled easily Categorization We organize all the words we learn under their categories to remember them better.

23. LET’S SEE HOW WELL YOU REMEMBER TODAY’S LESSON… 1)What are the six thinking levels in Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy that were mentioned at the beginning of this lesson? 2)What is the name of the thinking level you learned today? 3)What MEMORY TECHNIQUES will help you remember the new words/idioms you learn in English? 4)what is the SL tool used in this lesson ?

24. (1)Choose one category from following list and write 10 words that belong to it. 1- Health 2- Education 3- Astronomy 4- Technology Assignment (1)

25. (2) Think of one idiom and contextualize it in a personalized situation (write not less than 50 words) Assignment (2)

26. Mark012 Criterion Not accomplished at all Partially accomplished Fully accomplished Assessment Rubric: