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1. 0:04Welcome to this uh session on your
2. 0:07assignment two which is called an
3. 0:09unknown natural language sometimes
4. 0:12abbreviated to UNL
5. 0:15and you will see that you have this
6. 0:19section in your Google classroom. Um, by
7. 0:22the time you have reached this
8. 0:24assignment, you will have already
9. 0:25completed assignment one and all of the
10. 0:27tasks that go with that. Um, please make
11. 0:30sure that you have completed all of
12. 0:31those things in the Google Classroom
13. 0:34prior to assignment two um before you
14. 0:38kick off with this assignment. So, what
15. 0:40I'd like to do is just briefly go
16. 0:43through the expectations of the
17. 0:45assignment and where you can find all
18. 0:47the information. So as you will see you
19. 0:50are here in Google uh classroom with uh
20. 0:53the assignment two. So what you'll find
21. 0:56in assignment two is the information
22. 0:59here that explains in the Google
23. 1:01classroom. You've got the brief here
24. 1:04which you are watching on this video but
25. 1:06you also have the brief as a PDF which
26. 1:08you can go and access at any time as
27. 1:11well as a copy of this video. You will
28. 1:13have the content guide here uh to tell
29. 1:15you how to complete the assignment.
30. 1:18Further down here, you will have a video
31. 1:21recording of a Romanian class uh with a
32. 1:25group of A1 students learning Romanian.
33. 1:27That will be the uh unknown natural
34. 1:30language. Um and you will have the
35. 1:32template assignment too as well. So,
36. 1:35you'll be able to find the assignment
37. 1:37here and I'll show you that um a little
38. 1:38bit later on. Um, as always, once you've
39. 1:42watched all the classes and you've done
40. 1:43all the things in the in the brief, um,
41. 1:46you're able to actually go and do the
42. 1:48assignment itself. So, I'm going to
43. 1:50select now the brief and talk you
44. 1:53through a bit more about this, uh,
45. 1:56assignment, this unknown natural
46. 1:57language assignment.
47. 1:59So, the purpose of this assignment is to
48. 2:02help you understand how your lower level
49. 2:05students feel during a class. In other
50. 2:08words, uh the frustrations that they
51. 2:10might have, the difficulties they might
52. 2:12have, but also the enjoyment that they
53. 2:14might have of learning another language.
54. 2:17Um and also for you to think about um
55. 2:19and understand what a lowlevel class
56. 2:21would look like in terms of structure
57. 2:24and skills. and you'll be able to assess
58. 2:27how well you can master the PPP method
59. 2:30and how well you can understand the
60. 2:32terminology we have covered so far in
61. 2:35terms of PPP and putting that into a
62. 2:39clear lesson plan. So that's what's
63. 2:41coming up in the assignment itself.
64. 2:44Now let's just take a a moment to think
65. 2:47about what it is like to be a learner of
66. 2:51a language at a complete beginner level.
67. 2:53Now maybe you have been uh in this
68. 2:55situation yourself. Perhaps you have
69. 2:57already learned some Spanish and started
70. 3:00at uh A0 A1 level. Maybe that's the case
71. 3:04for French. Um who knows what languages
72. 3:07you've been learning. We we'll look
73. 3:09forward to hearing about those when
74. 3:10you're here. Um but what do we know
75. 3:13about a beginner level student? Well,
76. 3:15basically they have no previous uh
77. 3:17understanding, no previous history, and
78. 3:20no previous study of the language. Um
79. 3:23maybe they know a few words. Uh I
80. 3:26certainly came to live in Madrid with a
81. 3:28few useful words like uh ordering a
82. 3:31beer. Um so the occasional phrase
83. 3:34perhaps they know but in general they
84. 3:36they have no understanding of how the
85. 3:38language uh is put together. Quite often
86. 3:41students at this level um and I
87. 3:43certainly remember this myself can get
88. 3:45very frustrated
89. 3:47um talking or trying to learn a a new
90. 3:50language and not being able to speak the
91. 3:53language um fluently, not being able to
92. 3:56communicate. Um it's very frustrating.
93. 4:00Um, and you have to really help the
94. 4:03students as the teacher um, get past
95. 4:05some of those frustrations and enjoy
96. 4:07learning the language. Quite often in a
97. 4:11class where you have a group of A1
98. 4:13students who do not know the language
99. 4:15and you are teaching them, they're going
100. 4:16to be confused. Okay? There's no doubt
101. 4:19that's going to happen. Um, you are just
102. 4:21going to set your class up to be the
103. 4:24best that it can be to support your
104. 4:26students learning it. But just accept uh
105. 4:29that they're going to be confused. Um it
106. 4:31will take a lot of patience and a lot of
107. 4:33time um and a lot of effort from both
108. 4:35you and the students to to learn the
109. 4:38language at this level. So it's really
110. 4:41important to keep your students engaged
111. 4:43from the outset. Um that means that they
112. 4:46haven't got time to be frustrated. They
113. 4:48haven't got time to be confused. You
114. 4:50just want them to be uh listening
115. 4:52attentively and trying to understand
116. 4:54what's going on and and enjoying the
117. 4:56process.
118. 4:58With low-level students, we still use
119. 5:00the PPP methodology, which by now you
120. 5:03will already have seen and be
121. 5:05understanding really clearly, but there
122. 5:07will be a few minor changes, okay?
123. 5:10Because remember, they can't hold down a
124. 5:12conversation. They can't understand the
125. 5:15questions you're asking if you want to
126. 5:17have a conversation with them. And many
127. 5:19times we do questions and um and a
128. 5:22conversation at the point of uh opening
129. 5:25the the actual class uh in the
130. 5:28presentation section. So we have to
131. 5:30remember that that's not going to be
132. 5:32possible. So we're going to have a look
133. 5:33at different ways that we can do that.
134. 5:36Now gestures, minds, praise, all of
135. 5:39these things by the teacher, by you as
136. 5:41the teacher is going to be absolutely
137. 5:43essential. you are going to have to
138. 5:46really use your body language, use um
139. 5:50extra smiles, extra encouragement
140. 5:52physically, verbally, uh clapping hands,
141. 5:56thumbs up, um well done, all of these
142. 6:00things you're really going to have to
143. 6:01exaggerate so that people know what's
144. 6:03going on. And your model examples, which
145. 6:07you all know now when you're instructing
146. 6:09um and modeling things, uh how important
147. 6:12it is to do that. And it's going to be
148. 6:14super super super important for your A1
149. 6:16students. They're going to need to see
150. 6:19what they need to do as well as listen
151. 6:22mostly because they won't understand
152. 6:23what you're saying, but they will be
153. 6:25able to make connections with visual
154. 6:28things. Okay? So take that in mind as we
155. 6:31go through this uh this assignment. Um
156. 6:35and let me talk you through what you're
157. 6:37going to be doing. So, you're basically
158. 6:39going to observe a recorded class um of
159. 6:42students learning Romanian. The students
160. 6:44are A1 learners, which means they have
161. 6:47never spoken Romanian before.
162. 6:51The class is 100% in Romanian. So, the
163. 6:54teacher uses the PPP methodology to help
164. 6:57them learn some basic language skills
165. 6:59and gets them participating in the
166. 7:01language right from the beginning of the
167. 7:04class to the end of the class. Now,
168. 7:06whilst you watch the model class, I
169. 7:09suggest you use the same note
170. 7:10takingaking sheets from your assignment
171. 7:12one um that you would have been using to
172. 7:14make notes on the other model classes
173. 7:16and make notes on this class and see how
174. 7:19it is being taught. You can find that
175. 7:21things aren't exactly the same as an A2
176. 7:24to class uh sorry A2 to C1 class such as
177. 7:27the elicitation and gist questions, but
178. 7:29you should be able to follow the
179. 7:31process. Now, just remember the class is
180. 7:34in Romanian. So, we don't expect you to
181. 7:37understand it unless by some amazing
182. 7:40chance you speak Romanian. Um, so you
183. 7:43are watching for clues. You are watching
184. 7:45for the process and you are watching for
185. 7:48things like model examples, how the
186. 7:51teacher minds gestures and gets them
187. 7:56speaking and and participating.
188. 7:59Now also make notes therefore about how
189. 8:01things are different as you'll need to
190. 8:02consider those as part of your
191. 8:04assignment.
192. 8:06So the assignment is made up of four
193. 8:08parts as follows. An autobiography
194. 8:11aspects of the recorded Romanian class
195. 8:14that you'll observe the front page of an
196. 8:16A1 lesson plan and the actual A1 student
197. 8:19lesson plan and the procedures that you
198. 8:21will follow.
199. 8:23So this assignment is due to be
200. 8:25submitted once you have completed all
201. 8:27the videos and tasks in the Google
202. 8:30classroom up to this section and you
203. 8:31must have completed assignment one
204. 8:33beforehand. You will complete the
205. 8:35templates and grading criteria to ensure
206. 8:38that you complete the assignment
207. 8:40correctly and receive a pass grade which
208. 8:43can be found in your Google classroom in
209. 8:46this section. There is no model example
210. 8:49for this assignment. So, make sure to
211. 8:51read the grading criteria before you
212. 8:53start so that you know exactly what to
213. 8:54expect.
214. 8:56Each part of the assignment will be
215. 8:58graded and you will need to pass each
216. 9:00section to receive an overall pass for
217. 9:02the assignment. If you're unable to pass
218. 9:05a specific section, we will require you
219. 9:07to resubmit it until you receive the
220. 9:09pass grade.
221. 9:12Okay? So this information um is
222. 9:16available to you to reread in the
223. 9:18assignment and I'm going to talk you
224. 9:20through now the grading criteria uh to
225. 9:22show you a bit more about this
226. 9:24particular part of the assignment.
227. 9:30So with the grading criteria it tells
228. 9:32you exactly what you need to do.
229. 9:34Obviously you need to watch the video
230. 9:36the remaining class video before
231. 9:38anything. Now, here are your two
232. 9:41sections, sorry, your two parts and your
233. 9:43four sections. Okay, so here is your
234. 9:46autobiography. You will need to reflect
235. 9:48on at least one of your own learning
236. 9:50experiences of a foreign language.
237. 9:52Explain why that experience was
238. 9:54productive or non-productive towards
239. 9:56your learning the language and give at
240. 9:58least one example to back up your
241. 10:00opinion. Um, if you have never studied
242. 10:04or officially learned a sack language,
243. 10:05you can think about the UNL class as an
244. 10:08example.
245. 10:11Section two, where uh aspects of the
246. 10:14recorded UNL class you observed. So,
247. 10:16where applicable, constructively
248. 10:18criticize aspects of the lesson that you
249. 10:20thought could be improved and suggest
250. 10:22alternative approaches. comment on at
251. 10:25least two teaching techniques or
252. 10:27behaviors that you have observed and
253. 10:29would plan to incorporate into your
254. 10:30teaching practices and beyond. And then
255. 10:33we move to part two which is basically
256. 10:35creating an A1 lesson plan. You will
257. 10:38need to create the lesson plan
258. 10:40completing the front page um as you
259. 10:43would have seen in the other lesson
260. 10:44plans in the other classes and complete
261. 10:46all of the boxes according to
262. 10:48expectations of an A1 group class. And
263. 10:52then for this section two, you'll need
264. 10:55to complete the lesson plan itself. So
265. 10:58you must create a lesson plan suitable
266. 11:00for a group of A1 students who are
267. 11:02learning English. So now you need to put
268. 11:05yourself in the shoes of the students
269. 11:08learning English. Remember, think about
270. 11:11the confusion, think about the
271. 11:12frustration, think about the fact that
272. 11:15they don't know anything. Um they won't
273. 11:17be able to hold down a conversation with
274. 11:19you. Okay. And then use the ideas and
275. 11:23think about the model class, the
276. 11:25Romanian model class and the content
277. 11:27that was in there. And then you need to
278. 11:30detail the procedure of your class. So
279. 11:33think about all of the different
280. 11:34terminology that you've been learning.
281. 11:37Making sure there are instructions in
282. 11:39there, there are model examples that you
283. 11:41remember to monitor. So, you're creating
284. 11:43a lesson plan here from zero to create
285. 11:48uh sorry to deliver a class to an A1
286. 11:51group of students using all of the
287. 11:53procedures and all of the terminology
288. 11:55that we've talked about so far. You'll
289. 11:58clearly differentiate the stages in the
290. 12:00lesson pertaining to PPP.
291. 12:03You'll um state the timing for each
292. 12:06stage. You'll use student interactions
293. 12:08and you'll mention materials. And you
294. 12:11should use the experience of observing
295. 12:12the UNL class to consider content and
296. 12:15activities. Now the important thing is
297. 12:17however you must not copy the activities
298. 12:21that you have seen in the Romanian class
299. 12:23UNL. You will see that there is a copy
300. 12:26of the lesson plan in English with the
301. 12:29Romanian class. Okay? But you cannot
302. 12:32copy that lesson plan. This is very
303. 12:35important. Okay? You have to create your
304. 12:36own lesson plan and content.
305. 12:40So for the rest of the activity you will
306. 12:42see the uh the Romanian class will be
307. 12:45here for you to watch and then your
308. 12:48actual assignments document will be
309. 12:51here. Now please remember when you go to
310. 12:53view assignments it is much better to go
311. 12:56to the view assignments in order to be
312. 12:58able to access the document here. So for
313. 13:02example here you will see under your
314. 13:05work a link straight to the template for
315. 13:09you to complete. Now you will have
316. 13:11already completed assignment one. So I'm
317. 13:12sure you understand how this works. Once
318. 13:14you open the document uh it is
319. 13:17immediately um editable and when you
320. 13:20come back to um complete the assignment
321. 13:23you just type in sorry you just click on
322. 13:26hand in and it will automatically send
323. 13:29us your edited document. You do not need
324. 13:32to upload anything, download anything or
325. 13:34save anything as a PDF. You just need to
326. 13:37go to the document, edit it, and when
327. 13:40you finished editing, come back to the
328. 13:42classroom and press hand in.
329. 13:45Okay, I'll just do that for you here so
330. 13:47you can see. You'll go to the document
331. 13:49and here it will open up for you and you
332. 13:53will see the grading criteria and the
333. 13:55sections automatically
334. 13:57um
335. 13:59are shown as per the grading criteria uh
336. 14:02that we've talked to you about in the
337. 14:03different sections. And here's the
338. 14:06lesson plan that you will complete.
339. 14:11And that's it guys. So um please do get
340. 14:14in contact if you have any questions.
341. 14:16Um, but first of all, read all the
342. 14:19information, read the brief, read the
343. 14:21content guide, look at the assignment,
344. 14:23and most importantly, watch the video,
345. 14:25and then you will be in a better place
346. 14:27to be able to complete the assignment.
347. 14:30We look forward to receiving it soon.
348. 14:32Take care.