CELTA Online Unit 7 Task 9: Matching Problems and Solutions

Now look at some of the other errors that Ahn made in his interview:

1. ‘Ko-re-an teacher’.
2. ‘Good city view’.
3. ‘Maybe I need ability to speak English’.
4. ‘I don’t know but just for future’.
5. ‘I’m…(pause) studying…(pause) in…(pause) university’.
Below are five possible solutions from coursebooks and other published material. Which problem do they address?
Do they meet the criteria?

I. Does this material deal with the problem the students have?
II. Does it give the students an opportunity to practise?
III. Is the material engaging?
IV. Is the material meaningful?

Solution Problem – your responses Problem – suggested answers

Clare, A & Wilson, JJ (2006) Articles
Total English Intermediate p.
‘I don’t know but just for future’
82 & 83 Pearson Longman
i. Yes, the material deals with six
main uses of indefinite, definite
and zero article.
ii. Yes, students can practise in
exercise 6, 7 and 8.
iii. Yes, it is on the topic of travel
which is a broadly appealing topic.
iv. Yes, especially in exercise 8 where
students have a chance to
personalize the language
Forsyth, W (2000) Clockwise Talking about the future
Intermediate p. 72 & 73
‘Maybe I need ability to speak English’.
Oxford University Press
i. Yes, the material deals with ways
of talking about the future in
‘Vocabulary’ 2, 3 and 4.
ii. Yes, students can practise in
‘Vocabulary’ exercise 5.
iii. Fairly, the topic is predicting the
future but it may be a little
depressing.
iv. Yes, in particular ‘Vocabulary’
exercise 5 where students can
personalize the language.
Hancock, M (2007) English Grouping words together
Pronunciation in Use
‘I’m.,.(pause) studying…(pause) in…(pause)
Intermediate p. 94 & 95
Cambridge University Press
McCarthy, M & O'Dell, F
(2005) English Collocations
in Usep. 36 & 37 Cambridge
University Press
http://www.oup.com/elt/gl
obal/products/englishfile/up
perint/c_pronunciation/nef_
upperint_stressgame/
university’
i. Yes, this material deals with how to
‘chunk’ language naturally.
ii. Yes, students can practise on page
95 and the exercises are graded to
help the students.
iii. Fairly, the material has been
arranged around the topic of
clothes.
iv. It is meaningful in as far as it shows
students the importance of
chunking words and the danger of
not grouping words correctly.
Lack of lexis to describe places
‘Good city view’.
i. Yes, the material provides students
with a great deal of lexis to
describe towns and cities.
ii. Yes, the exercises on page 37 give
students practice.
iii. Yes, the topic is clear.
Yes, the material gives lexis for
visitors as well as describing
problems, both of which would be
used in real life.
Word stress
We learned just grammar from Ko-re-an
teacher
i. Yes, it deals directly with which
syllable is stressed.
ii. Partly, students get some practice
at identifying where the stress falls
but do not get a chance to say it.
iii. Yes, it is a very fun and unusual
format with a clear score at the
end.
iv. Partly, all the language comes from
the chapter in the book which
students should have covered
before.