LFO Teacher's Guide - Book - Page 20
When teaching writing, it’s important to work slowly and enable the students to progress at
their own pace. Many students need more practice, so it’s vital to enable them to redo the
exercise if they didn’t succeed the first time around. Rewriting something gives the students
an opportunity to notice mistakes or to learn new ways of doing something. No one is
expected to get the written piece perfect at the first attempt, so take your time with writing,
working slowly, from writing correctly structured sentences, to sentences that are connected
to each other, and eventually to being able to write a short story. Every writing activity should
go through the stages of first writing, then editing and rewriting.
viii. Let’s Do It!
All the Let’s Do It! exercises are Performance Based Tasks. They each offer the students an
opportunity to use the language they have learned to produce something of their own that is
both interesting and different from what they have been doing. Yet all the products that are
created are directly connected to the content of the unit, thus providing information for
assessment.
ix. Language Focus
This is where the language structures are presented and taught. Each language structure is
presented in a simplified and clear manner, enabling all the students to learn the language
structure and be able to apply it correctly. The structures are taken directly from the unit,
always in context, which enables you to refer to the content as well, giving more explanation
and more practice.
It’s a good idea to always read all the examples, copying some of them onto the board to place
more focus on the material taught. Have the students follow the examples in their books and
read aloud sentences that present the different structures.
Each language structure presentation is followed by exercises that reinforce what was taught.
All the structures are re-entered throughout the book, on many occasions, so it’s highly
recommended to remind the students of the structures they’ve learned as they reappear in
the book.
You can use the activities for vocabulary practice to practice the various structures as well.
x. Let’s Practice!
These exercises offer a chance to practice the language structure that was just learned. The
exercises offer guided practice in a success oriented format. The exercises begin with
identification and slowly work their way up to more production on the part of the student.
xi. Let’s Surf!
These activities send the students to the website and offer an opportunity to access more
information in an online environment. The students are asked to use the online information as
an opportunity for enrichment.
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