Monday

The theme of the intensive week is C1 EXPRESSIONS and COMMON ERRORS

Day 1 - Monday

Summary:

Teacher led-activity

Dragon’s Den Inventions and Pitches (C1 level expressions)

Watching the presentations (feedback from Declan on presentations)

Dragon’s Den Activity (groups of 4 or 5)

http://patrickwiddess.hubpages.com/hub/ESL-Dragons-Den-lesson-for-learners-of-English

The lesson plan for this is available in the link above.  You need to record this on a camera / ipad / tablet etc. You are going to watch this after lunch.

When preparing their pitches I would like you to:

1.      Encourage as much use of C1 level expressions as possible – the students have a hand-out from the EQUALS document which contains C1 level phrases.  Please ask them to use these in their pitches. E.g. “I’m absolutely certain you will love our product”

2.      Tell them they cannot refer to notes in their pitches.

Just like in Dragon’s Den you need 4 students to be the dragons.  Each student will have a chance to be a dragon.  Again when asking questions to the ‘inventors’ I’d like you Declan to ask them to incorporate C1 level expressions into their questions. E.g. “Suppose I invested in your product, what would you do with the money?”

The pitches and questions and investment decisions should take about 15 minutes each.

Afternoon Session 1.30-3.30 Deferred to Day 2 because of Technical Issues.

Declan’s Feedback on the presentations

As a class you are going to watch the presentations back.  I would like you to set the following task while watching:

-          Make a note of any C1 level expressions the presenters / dragons use and any high-level lexical chunks.

I would like Declan to highlight particular common mistakes that some students make, perhaps fossilised errors.  E.g. subject verb agreements, Manglish expressions, and inappropriate tense use.  Please keep a note of these and record them in a table like this one.
(See CPs feedback to their colleagues - they're pretty much got them all.)