Felix Aguilar 8-801-107

Ronald Ayala

Follow-up activities
Analyzing learning activities
1. Identify learning goals for the following activities:

a. Students are given a copy of a dialogue. They listen to the

dialogue and mark which words are stressed. (to improve comprehension
and understanding of the students)

b. Students listen to a description of a person and identify the

correct person by selecting from among five pictures. (to increase Knowledge,
and remembering of the students)

c. Students work in pairs and look at similar but slightly different

pictures. Student A describes picture 1 to his or her partner, and
the partner identifies any differences in picture 2. (to develop a Spot the
difference activity “to improve speaking skills in the students)

d. Students are given twenty sentences in random order and decide

in groups the best way to reorder them to make a story. (to encourage
students to analyze and to organize items)
e. Each student in the class is given one sentence which forms part
of a story. One student reads aloud his or her sentence; others
try to figure out whether their sentence goes before or after it.
Gradually they reconstruct the story (.to develop analysis and organization
skills of the students)

f. Students are given thirty verbs and are asked to arrange them
into categories of their choice. (to improve organization of the students)
2. Suggest language learning activities to attain these goals:

a. To teach students the principle of sentence focus - that is, that

different words in a sentence can be given stronger stress ac-
cording to the focus of information in the sentence.
R: (Students are given a copy of a song. They listen to the song and mark
which words are stressed.)

b. To teach students how to write paragraphs containing topic

sentences.
R: students are given a specific topic in order they start to write their paragraph
they must include the title of the topic in the first paragraph

c. To teach students to use effective note-taking strategies when

listening to lectures.
R: students are encouraged to write down unknown words to look by its
meaning for homework.
d. To train students to hear the difference between words beginning
with /sh/ and /s/.
R: students are given roles using examples of words beginning with /SH/ and
/S/ to improve and recognize the sound differences
e. To practice using the present continuous to describe ongoing
events.
R: Students are given a planning activity to use the present continuous

f. To practice job interview skills.

R: students are given a role play activity to perform a job interview in pairs.
3. Examine the examples from EFL textbooks on pages 175-177.
What is the purpose of each activity in the extracts? Classify the
activities into the following categories:
a. presentation activity
b. practice activity (food and drink)
c. memorization activity (national dishes)
d. comprehension activity
e. application activity (wanting things)
f. strategy activity
g. affective activity
h. feedback activity
i. assessment activity