ESOLNational 4 in Context Workand Study Student Notes Part 1
ESOLNational 4 in Context Workand Study Student Notes Part 1
Student Notes
National 4 ESOL in Context Work & Study Student Notes Part 1
Publishing information
First edition
Published date: August 2007
Publication code: CB 3814
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Please note these materials have been repurposed for the new National
Qualifications - August 2015
Contents
Presentation skills
9 Presentation skills 49
10 Review of lessons 6–8 54
Work
Lesson
Talking about organisational skills and
01 stationery
Task: Talking about organisational
skills and stationery
Skill: Listening, Speaking, vocabulary relating to stationery
Reading grammar and spelling
Activity 1
Work with a partner and make a list of the things you keep in your bag to help
you with writing and school/college work.
Activity 2
Track 2
(B) Second listening: Listen again and answer the following questions:
7 Margaret thinks that the _________ ___________ and bound writing pads
are cheap.
Are these statements True (T) or False (F)? Circle your answer.
8 Mona thinks that you can get 10 pencils for 25 pence from Asda. T F
9 Pound Stretchers has cheap plastic folders. T F
10 Susan will start shopping for her stationery next week. T F
Activity 3
Here are typical items of stationery which students need for writing and their
school/college work. Work in small groups to match them to their names.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15
4 Studioaraminta 10 Emily2k
Activity 4
Now work in pairs to ask and answer the following questions. Write your answers
in the table below.
1 Which of the stationery items does your partner always keep in her/his bag?
Why?
Activity 5
Your teacher will divide the class into teams to play a game to help you
remember the names and spellings of the words in Activity 3.
Each team has six questions to ask the other team. The team will score one point
if they get the answer right and another point if they spell the word correctly.
Activity 6
1 The importance of having highlighter pens and what you can use them for.
2 The best way to organise your worksheets into your ring binder.
Homework task
Text correction fluid such as Tippex is used for painting over a mistake you have
made with pens.
Write similar sentences about the following objects.
1 a ruler
2 a compass
3 Sellotape
4 a glue stick
5 Post-it notes
6 a bilingual dictionary
Lesson
Talking about long-term aims and
02 short-term objectives
Task:
Skill: Speaking, Listening, vocabulary, grammar
Writing
Activity 1
Activity 2
Work with your partner to check if you both understand the meaning of these two
phrases:
1 Long-term aim
2 Short-term objectives
Activity 3
Track 3
(A) First listening: Listen to a teacher giving her students advice about studying
English.
a short-term objectives
b long-term aims
c long-term aims and short-term objectives
6 The teacher can now plan the topics and the skills the student
needs. T F
Activity 4
Work in pairs to decide whether these students are talking about long-term aims
or short-term objectives.
1 2
5 6
7 8
Long-term aims
Short-term objectives
1 Soubrette
2 Soubrette
3 Jacques Crozier
4 Ian McDonnell
5 Phil Date
6 Anneke Schram
7 Jaymaal
8 Karim Hesham
Activity 5
Here are some examples of purposes, situations and language skills. Work in
small groups to put each example under the suitable heading. Use a highlighter
pen to mark the phrases of each group first (a different colour for each group),
before you include them in the table.
Activity 6
Here are more purposes for studying English. Fill in the blanks with two more
suitable situations and language skills for the chef, studying Biology and
postman.
______________________ ___________________
_____________________ __________________
To be a postman
______________________ ___________________
______________________ ___________________
1 Norman Pogson
2 Kelly Cline
3 Nancy Louie
4Steve Snyder
Activity 7
Study these examples and then write two similar sentences about your own
short-term objectives for each one. Use in order to and so that.
Writing
Listening
Reading
3 I need to improve my reading in order to read maps and street names better.
Vocabulary
Homework task
Think about a job or a course other than English which you want to do. Make a
list of the situations where you think you would need to use English for the
job/course you have chosen and the language skills you would need to use.
Lesson
Talking about learning how to learn
03 Learning strategies
Task:
Skill: Speaking, Reading vocabulary, spelling and grammar
Activity 1
(A) Work with a partner to discuss these two statements. Which one do you
agree with? Why?
Activity 2
(A) Read the text on the next page to answer these two questions.
A B C D
A Olympus
B Christine Balderas
C James Pauls
D Sergey Kogun
Listen every day to English. Listen to the radio from time to time. Do not worry
about the words which you do not understand. Listen carefully to the words which
you already know and that will help you to understand what the speaker is talking
about. You should also watch TV, go to the cinema or borrow videos or DVDs
from video rental shops. While watching, look carefully at the mouth of the
speaker. Observe how they talk focusing on stress and intonation. Try to repeat
what they are saying copying the stress and intonation.
Speaking is very important. It takes time to speak English well. Speak to as many
students as you can. You should always use what you have learnt. Do not worry
about making errors. We even make mistakes when we speak in our own
language. If you do not have someone to speak to in English at home, try to
speak as much as possible in the college or school during breaks and in the
classroom, especially when your teacher asks the class to work in pairs or
groups. Borrow some cassettes and try to repeat words and phrases after the
speaker to improve your pronunciation.
Read as many English books, newspapers and magazines as you can find. Read
what you are interested in. Do not interrupt your reading at each unfamiliar word
to use the dictionary. You do not need every word to understand the meaning of
what you read. Try to practise increasing your reading speed by using different
reading skills such as guessing meanings of new words, predicting and reading
groups of words together rather than focusing on single words. When you finish
reading, use a highlighter to highlight some useful words and phrases and record
them in your vocabulary notebook. Divide your notebook into sections (eg
shopping, health or education).
You can only improve your writing by using the words and phrases you have
learned. If you use the same words and sentences, which you know already, your
writing will not improve. Try to use some of the new words and phrases in your
writing. When you use them once or twice, you will remember them easily. Do not
forget to learn from your mistakes. If you do not know how to correct your
mistakes, ask one of the other students or your teacher.
a mouth
b eyes
c vocabulary
a watching TV
b listening to the radio
c using the words and phrases you have learned
(C) Are these statements True (T), False (F) or Doesn’t say (DS)? Circle your
answer.
(D)
13 Find a word in Paragraph 3 which means guess what will happen next.
Activity 3
Work with a partner and study these two examples taken from the text.
7 Watch / TV________________________________________________
Activity 4
1 Work in small groups to complete the following table with the learning
strategies suggested in the text for improving listening and speaking.
Listening Speaking
2 Work in small groups to complete the following table with the learning
strategies suggested in the text for improving reading and writing.
Reading Writing
Activity 5
Write sentences explaining some of the above learning strategies. For example:
Activity 6
Work on your own and choose one learning strategy for each language skill,
which you would like to try using from now on. Then discuss your strategies with
a partner.
Listening:___________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
Speaking:___________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
Reading:____________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
Writing:_____________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
Activity 7
Here is a learning strategy, which you can use to practise learning how to spell
words. Your teacher will explain to you how to use the spelling worksheet below.
Look Say Cover Write Check
A B C D E
Homework task
Learn how to spell these words:
1 predict
2 unfamiliar
3 section
4 observe
5 focus
6 borrow
7 carefully
8 guessing
9 rental
10 divide
Lesson
Talking about computing skills
04 Learning strategies
Task:
Skill: Speaking, Writing, vocabulary and grammar
Listening, Reading
Activity 1
Activity 2
A C
B D E
F G
H I J
K L M N O
Write your answers in the table below. The first answer has been done for you.
1 printer B 2 webcam 3 scanner 4 mouse 5 keyboard
6 headset 7speakers 8 monitor 9 floppy 10 laptop
disk
11digital 12 CD 13 memory 14 CPU 15 telephone
camera stick line
All photos: © [Link] (Except B, D, H,and I – Courtesy of BTL) A Krzysiek_z_poczty C Michal Rozanski E Stas Perov F Matjaz Boncina G
Aleksandar Kolundzija J Norma Zaro K Costin T L Michael Civ M Tatiana Popova N Ed Hidden O Olivier Blondeau
Activity 3
Work with a partner and ask her/him the following questions. Write your partner’s
answers in the table below.
Activity 4
1 Your teacher will divide the class into 4 groups to play a game about the
hardware parts from Activity 2. Your teacher will explain to you how to play
the game.
1 capture a keep
2 transmit b change
3 store c information
4 designed d send
5 convert e made
6 data f take
7 image g picture
Activity 5
Work with a partner to talk about the internet. Ask each other the following
questions:
Activity 6
Track 4
a he is mad
b he has a problem with his computer
c he has a problem with Internet Explorer
(C) Are these statements True (T) or False (F)? Circle your answer.
a at his home
b at the college
c at Sanchez’s home
Activity 7
Here is some information about Brazil taken from the BBC News website. Use
the notes to write a short paragraph about Brazil. The website address is:
[Link]
FACTS
Full name: Federative Republic of Brazil
Population: 182.8 million (UN, 2005)
Capital: Brasilia
Largest city: Sao Paulo
Area: 8.55 million sq km (3.3 million sq miles)
Major language: Portuguese
Major religion: Christianity
Life expectancy: 66 years (men), 74 years (women) (UN)
Main exports: Manufactured goods, iron ore, coffee, oranges,
other agricultural produce
International dialling code: +55
Homework task
Visit the following website, which includes words and phrases translated from
English into other languages. Find your language and learn some new words
about computing skills.
[Link]
Lesson
Review of lessons 1–4
05
Task:
Skill: Speaking, Writing, vocabulary, grammar and
Reading pronunciation
Activity 1
Work with a partner to ask each other if you remember the topics of the first four
lessons.
Activity 2
(A) Work in small groups to match the words we use when we talk about the
internet.
(B) Complete the following sentences with the phrases from the table above.
5 They have a lot of information about their company on the internet. You
should_______________________.
Activity 3
Find the following words in the grid. Use a highlighter to mark the letters of the
words. The words run from:
left to right
right to left
top to bottom
bottom to top
diagonally from top to bottom
diagonally from bottom to top
STATIONERY
S N D Q Q R U B B E R E R W Y
R H G A D W A F S G E U E Y Q
T Z A X P R M N J F L I T N U
C I P R U E S G D E P P H Q M
J G P X P H T I R Y A A G N N
K D B P S E V O R K T P I I Z
E U L G E I N E N R S E L O I
V I N S D X N E E B T R H I J
X J C E H O M D R O B J G V C
Q J R T I W L A G O F O I A M
H S G T H O Q I X K S L H N R
S R A H F Q U R O M A C B W L
P T T A U C O M P A S S E S J
S E L L O T A P E R E I U N G
Q I V U Y E E G J K P F P C N
Activity 4
Now complete the sentences with a suitable phrase from the following.
Use ________________________________________want.
4 How soon can you give me back the book you borrowed?
I’ll __________________________________________can.
Use _______________________________________need.
Read _______________________________can.
(B) Your teacher will show you the words and phrases you should stress. Listen
and repeat. Then work in pairs to do the activity orally.
Activity 5
Work with a partner to check the difference between these two phrases:
long-term aims
short-term objectives
Which is general and takes a long time to achieve, and which is specific and
takes a short time to achieve?
Work with a partner to complete the table below with these sentences.
1 I need to practise how to spell the days of week, months and seasons.
2 I want to improve my English.
3 I want to speak English fluently.
4 I want to learn how to pronounce correctly sh and ch.
5 I’m interested in improving my overall reading.
6 I need to learn how to write a formal letter to ask for a job application form.
7 I want to improve my pronunciation of plurals.
8 I want to improve my spelling of irregular past verbs.
9 I’m interested in learning how to ask questions for all situations at work.
Activity 6
Things I am good at
I am very good at reading and I___________ about new words when I read.
3 Write your action plan on a piece of paper using the framework below. Show
your action plan to another student and invite them to ask you questions
about it.
Homework task
Make a list of the subjects which you studied at school and the subjects which
you are studying now.