TESL 140: Unit 2, Activity 1

Activity 1 askes us to:

Read pages 516-517 in your Brown & Lee text.  Consider the grammar and communication skills listed. Answer the question in the classroom connections box:

The target grammar points listed are not stated in the form of performance (what the student is expected to do). How would you incorporate some of those grammatical items into statements about what students are expected to do (to perform) in the communication skills?

 Brown and Lee (2015) talk about "Test Toward Clear, Unambiguous Objectives" when creating summative tests. Incorporating this objective into the Grammar objectives listed in the reading, I come up with the following hopefully clearer, more unambiguous objectives:

1. Students will be able to ask about who did something using who as a subject.
• Example: Who made the coffee?
2. Students will be able to use irregular past tense verbs when discussing various people and events.
• Example: He ran the race very fast.
3. Students will be able to give reasons for something using the conjunctions so and because.
• Example: I had a shower because I wanted to get clean.
4. Students will be able to ask for confirmation using simple past tense verbs in negative statements and information questions.
• You didn't make the coffee, did you?
5. Students will use anyone, someone, and no-one to discuss family and friends.
• Someone in my family likes figure skating.
6. Students will be able to state guesses about what happened using tag questions.
• You didn't know that, did you?

This is my take on creating clear, unambiguous objectives.