Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Vocabulary Teaching


Class: L2 Vocabulary Learning & Teaching F2012
Name: Lilian (9859504)


Class unit
The first book in senior high school Lesson 3: Table talk
Class Period
3 periods (150 minutes)

Class level

10 graders in senior high school

Class size

40 students

Learning goal

By enhancing learners’ vocabulary knowledge: form-meaning link, derivation, collocation, and phrasal vocabulary to promote students’ 4 skills.
Teaching Objectives
1.      Promote learners’ vocabulary acquisition through explicit instructions.
2.      Promote learners’ acquisition to make correct sentence patterns about table talk.
3.      Enhance learners’ listening and speaking ability in English.
4.      Extend learners’ social interaction to work together to accomplish a task.
5.      Extend learners’ ability to apply what they learn in the real world.
Teaching Materials
1.      Teacher-made worksheet
2.      Far-East English textbook, Book 1
3.      Flash cards
Assignment
Finish the worksheet
Assessment
Fill-in, multiple choice, paragraph writing
From Theory to Practice
1.      Communicative approach: Experience sharing allows students to explore their linguistic ability and express their living experiences.
2.      Task-based language teaching: Sentence patterns and related vocabulary learning about the target task allows students to fulfill the task and apply what they have learned to their real life.
3.      Social interactionist approach: Invite students extend their thinking and enhance their engagement with the task.
4.      Nation (2001) and Nation and Gu’s four-strand approach: Construct students’ vocabulary acquisition step by step.
5.      Nation (2001)’sword knowledge’ aspects: help students develop their vocabulary knowledge, such as form-meaning, grammatical function, and collocation

Teaching Procedures

Time

(mins.)

Theoretical framework

Period 1

Step 1. Pre-reading part

Warm up: Who would use the following expressions, a customer or a waiter? Discuss the question with your partners and check the best answers. Then, discuss the unfamiliar vocabulary.

Question
Answer
1.        
Why don’t we go Dutch this time?
    Customer    Waiter
I don’t feel like eating today.
But you agreed to be my guest.
2.        
What size coke do you want?
      Customer    Waiter
Medium, please.
Well-done, please.
3.        
How would you like your steak?
        Customer    Waiter
Large, please.
Well-done, please.
4.        
Did you make a reservation?
      Customer    Waiter
Yes, we reserved a table for two.
We don’t want to.
5.        
May I have the bill, please?
      Customer   Waiter
Sure.
Why?

Step 2. Reading part: Presentation
1.      Vocabulary teaching.
1-1 Students are asked to read the dialogue in the textbook (Appendix2 p.50-54). The target words are embedded and enhanced in the text, and students need to guess the meaning from the context. Students are expected to pay direct attention to these items.
1-2 Teacher is expected to give an English explanation of each target word and then give students the meaning of each target word in L1.
1-3 The teacher will teach the derivation and collocation of each target word.
Target words:
recommend, reservation, fry, bake, steam, salmon, taste, smell, bill, culinary
Derivation:
recommend/ recommendation, reserve/ reservation /fry/fried, bake/baked, steam/steamed, smoke/smoked
1-4 Collocation teaching:
collocations about the target vocabulary
l   Make a reservation
l   Make a recommendation
l   Take one’s order
l   Take one’s seat
l   Have the bill
2.      Idioms and multiword units teaching
2-1 Students guess the meaning of each multiword unit from the reading text.
Phrases/ Multiword units about table talk.
l   Go Dutch
l   On the house
l   How would you like…
l   May I …
2-2 Teacher is expected to give direct and explicit instruction.

Period 2
3.      Lexical Pattern teaching
1-1  Teacher-initiated focus on forms teaching.
Lexical pattern
Smell/ sound/ look/ taste/ feel+ adj
Smell/sound/ look/ taste/feel+like+ NP
Ex: My fried salmon smells good.
   The soup tastes like water.
1-2  Students are expected to finish the exercise parts in the textbook.
(Appendix1 p.66-67)

Step 3 Practice
1.      Mind mapping: To enhance the learners’ retention of each vocabulary about tale talk, learners are asked to finish a mind mapping about restaurant English in L3 in groups.
Ex:










2.      Vocabulary logs: Vocabulary logs help learners to reinforce their own learning by building a record of the new words they encounter in communication, and setting up a procedure for reviewing them. Students are asked to finish their own vocabulary log in class.

Ex:
Vocabulary log
                                                     
Look back over the words you met for the first time in this lesson. Decide on five that you think will be useful for you. Then complete the table.

New words
Example sentence
Collocation/ derivation or inflection
1.



2.



3.



4.



5.



Show your words to another learner, and explain your plan for revising these words.
Notes:
                                                      

Period 3
Step 4 Production: Task-based activity. 
1.      Make up a dialogue.
1-1 Students are asked to make up a dialogue about “table talk” in a restaurant, and the conversation between customers and waiters should be included. Students also need to make use of the target words, phrases and sentence patterns in their dialogue.
Ex: See Appendix 2
1-2 Students are divided into groups. 4 students in a group. They should discuss and come up with their own dialogue in a restaurant.

2.      Information gap / Information exchange
2-1 After making up the dialogue, students in a group need to fill in the blank depending on the dialogue they made. Then, students in groups choose one of the other groups. They need to use the target words, phrases and lexical patterns they learned to ask for information about the restaurant the groups designed. Students need to finish the following charts.

Ex:
Group ____
Recommend
Taste/ Smell +ad
        +like+N
On the house
Have a bill
Restaurant __


ice cream

Waiter
smoked salmon
like a stone


Customers
stir-fried chicken
wonderful

go Dutch

Group ____
Recommend
Taste/ Smell +ad
        +like+N
On the house
Have a bill
Restaurant __




Waiter




Customers




2-2 Each group need to present their restaurant and the information about the restaurant from the other group in English.

Step 5 Wrap up.
   Teacher reviews the target words, phrases, sentences patterns and announce the assessment next class.
Period 4
Step 6 Assessment
1.      Students are asked to complete an evaluation sheet, which includes fill-in part, multiple choice and picture description.
l   Fill in 30 %
l   Multiple choice 30%
l   Writing Part 40 %
2.      For fill-in and multiple choice parts, items are scored dichotomously.
3.      For writing part, both peer evaluation and teacher evaluation will be adopted. Students need to score 0-10 based on the vocabulary use, sentence pattern and content. Teacher is responsible to score 0-30 based on the same criteria.
l   Peer evaluation: 25 %
l   Teacher evaluation: 75%



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Communicative approach

Social interactionist approach
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Explicit learning
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phrasal vocabulary learning
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An embedded, selective vocabulary measure






Appendix 2
Restaurant English


Conversation
Serena and Jeremy went to an American restaurant to celebrate Serena’s birthday.
Waiter: Welcome to Daniel’s Restaurant. Do you have a reservation?
Jeremy: Yes. My name is Jeremy.
Waiter: Sure, Mr. Yen. You reserved a table for two. Please come this way.

Jeremy and Serena take their seats.
Waiter: Are you ready to order now?
Serena: No, we’re not ready yet. Please give us a minute.
Waiter: May I take your order now?
Serena: I can’t decide. What do you recommend?
Waiter: I recommend our fried chicken. It’s delicious.
Serena: Then, I want an order of fried chicken.
Jeremy: I want the same.
Waiter: What would you like for dessert?
Serena: I want chocolate ice cream for dessert.
Waiter: How about you, sir?
Jeremy: I can’t decide. What do you recommend?
Waiter: I recommend our strawberry cake. People say it’s great.
Jeremy: All right. I want it.
Waiter: What would you like to drink, madam?
Serena: I want a glass of juice.
Jeremy: I want soda, please.
Waiter: Anything else?
Serena: That’s all, thank you.

The waiter is serving the food.
Waiter: Here’s your fried chicken. Enjoy.
Waiter: The chocolate ice cream is for the lady. And the strawberry cake is for the gentleman. Bon appetite.
Waiter: Here are your drinks. Enjoy your meals.

Jeremy and Serena finish their meals.
Jeremy: Can I have the check, please?
Waiter: Certainly.
Jeremy: Serena, today is your birthday, so this is on me.
Serena: Thank you for your treat. It was delicious.
Jeremy: You’re welcome.
Waiter: Thank you for coming. Have a nice day.

Appendix 3
I.                    Fill in 30 %
_________1. “Where does it hurt?” the kind lady asked the boy in a g         e voice.
         2. For the sake of your health, you should not always eat fast food such as f      d chicken, and French fries. .
         3. Peter loves all kinds of sports, e        y basketball.
         4. The waiter a        hed us and asked what we’d like to eat.
         5. We decided to stay in the hotel Amy r       ded to us.
         6. The food at this restaurant is great, but its s       e is awful.
II.                  Multiple choice 30%
         1. The smoked salmon smells          fried chicken.
          (A) such   (B) like   (C) as   (D) for
         2. The lady walking towards us looks like          .
          (A) serious a teacher  (B) seriously a teacher
 (C) a teacher seriously  (D) a serious teacher
            3. She is an excellent babysitter, and I have recommended her          many of my friends.
             (A)to    (B) of   (C) for  (D) up
            4. The title of the book sounded          .
             (A) interest   (B) interested  (C) interestingly   (D) interesting
            5. After Nancy          the bill for her family, they went out and went shopping together.
              (A) taken  (B) made   (C) done   (D) had
            6. I have already            the reservation on Mother’s Day.
              (A) taken  (B) made   (C) done   (D) had
III. Writing Part 40 %
You are a new visitor in the US. You find a new and delicious restaurant and you want to recommend it by writing a letter to your friend in Taiwan. Please try to write a letter to recommend some delicious dishes based on the menu. Write one paragraph about 80 words.
Do not forget to use the vocabulary, phrases and sentence patterns you learned in the lesson.










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