Assignment A
Text 1 – Lower Intermediate
✔ This part of the assignment focuses on stage 2 of a lower-intermediate reading lesson.
✔ You should show what you would do for the vocabulary pre-teaching stage of the lesson.
✔ Include any references necessary in the bibliography template. See 'Referencing' document for advice on what is required.
✔ Read 'Advice on Approaching this Assignment' before you begin work on this template.
✔ Class: Lower intermediate (B1), 13 young learners, age range 12-14.
These students attend EFL classes because their parents are keen for them to have extra English lessons in addition to what their state
schools provide. Many of them resent having to come to language school, but you have found you can engage them if you make the
lessons fun and interesting.
Fortnite – a pleasure or a problem?
Fortnite is an online video game made by a company called Epic Games. Players can fight enemies, collect materials and items, and
make buildings. The game has three different versions, known as 'modes'. The most popular mode is called ‘Battle Royale’. In a
battle royale, players start with no items, and collect weapons and other equipment as they play. Players try to remove other
players and survive until the end of the game. A Battle Royale begins with up to one hundred players. The last player left alive is
the winner.
Fortnite is extremely popular. It came out in 2017 and now has hundreds of millions of players. And Epic Games has made hundreds
of millions of dollars. Celebrities, such as the rapper, Drake, play the Battle Royale mode. Other people have become celebrities
because they play the game. Fortnite is one of many video games which is played competitively as an ‘esport.’ In summer 2019,
there was a lot of attention in the British media when the 15-year-old schoolboy, Jaden Ashman, won the second prize in the first
Fortnite World Cup. Jaden and his 21-year-old Dutch game partner, Dave Jong, shared a prize of 2.25 million US dollars. Jaden's
mother said she always tried to stop him wasting his time on the game.
,The company sells a lot of game-related products, such as branded clothes and action figures. Players can buy additional features
for the game with Fortnite’s own currency; ‘V-bucks,’ which they can earn as they play the game. A popular additional feature is
silly dances for the characters. Many people copy the game’s dances in real life. There are numerous videos of people doing these
dances on YouTube and other websites.
There are concerns about Fortnite. Parents and teachers worry about how much time children spend playing the game when they
should be doing schoolwork. Some believe that it is addictive. Items in the game are bought with V-bucks, but V-bucks can be
bought with real money. There are many reports of children spending their parents’ money on the game without permission.
Although the game is colourful and has a light-hearted style, some adults feel that it is too violent for children. After all, the Battle
Royale mode involves killing other player’s characters with guns and other weapons.
Lesson Aims:
✔ To extend and practise productive use of vocabulary for talking about computer games and associated topics.
✔ To further develop reading skills through short reading activities on skimming and intensive reading.
Lesson Outline:
✔ These children are not keen on reading, but quite enjoy learning new vocabulary and interactive games.
✔ You have decided to place more focus on the vocabulary and speaking activities and will allocate timings roughly as follows:
1. Lead into topic (warmer) - 10 mins
2. Vocabulary pre-teaching (Presentation and short practice task) - 25 mins
3. First reading - 4 mins
4. Second reading - 9 mins
5. Follow-on activity (communicative speaking task) - 12 mins
You need to select 10 vocabulary items for pre-teaching and show how you would present two of those items in stage 2.
, 1. Vocabulary Pre-Teaching Planning Table
✔ In this table, show ten items from the text to pre-teach. Please complete every section of the table for all ten items. The table
is not a handout for the students.
✔ Read 'Advice on Approaching Assignment A' before you begin work on this table.
Maximum word count for the vocabulary table: 1000 words.
How Meaning will be Pronunciation
Meaning Conveyed to Students, Concept Questions Grammatical and IPA transcription
Item
(General definition) including Language-Graded Other Information AND
Definition word stress pattern
Versions A particular form of Ask the class if they know what What different Countable Noun /ˈvɜːʃənz/
something differing in Microsoft Word is? Explain that versions of
certain respects from an Microsoft Word has different Samsung (Plural of version) Stress: Oo
earlier form or other forms updates during different years. smartphones are
of the same type of thing. These are known as versions. there? (Samsung
Microsoft Word’s most recent Galaxy S8, S8 Plus,
three versions are 365, 2021 S9 etc)
and 2019.
Definition: A particular form of
something differing in certain
respects from an earlier form or
other forms of the same type of
thing.
Weapons Something (such as a club, Show the class a picture of What types of Countable Verb /ˈwɛp(ə)nz/
knife, or gun) used to injure, different weapons used in weapons are used (Plural of weapon)
defeat, or destroy Fortnite. by Police Officers? Stress: Oo
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