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Cover Sheet
Name:

WA 3

Date:

Tutor:

Aims
Communicative Aim
By the end of the lesson, learners will be better able to describe habits, be they good
or bad
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They
will also develop their speaking sub skill of speaking for gist in the context of finding
new challenges and set goals when they will have to add or subtract things in their
lives
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Materials

Own material

Previous Strengths
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Active, dynamic and enthusiastic group of students eager to learn and share
Good elicitation
Some good checking of instructions
Logically staged
Clear stage aims
Supportive detail
Realistic timing
Clear and logical plan with very good detail

Previous Areas to Develop
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Less control of the board

Classroom Management – Anticipated Problems and their Solutions
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This group is quite involved in the lesson(s) and may sometimes overstep the
mark
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We might provide multiple activities for students to work at
their own rate and especially during the reading tasks
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T will use strong students to elicit the words or provide them with
definitions or even try to mime, act out some expressions

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A few idiomatic expressions may be a problem for students because they
cannot be literally translated into SS’s first language (stuck in a rut / give it a
shot / from scratch)

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Solution: Teacher will use plenty of examples in sentences and provide
definitions as well
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● My mother told us never ______________________ , that we should always try to do better
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● People spend so much time sitting at their desks in their offices, it's like their second home
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If

you're

"computer-illiterate",

you

can

easily

take

your

computer

to

a

______________________ so he can solve your problem and explain how to do things
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● To be most effective, you must first ______________________ what you need
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● I learned that when I made small changes, they were more likely ______________________
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Lexis – Language Analysis
Target lexis (underlined) in example sentences and definitions
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A few years ago, I felt like I was stuck in a rut
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to follow in the footsteps of: to do the things someone has done before
A few years ago, I decided to follow in the footsteps of the great American philosopher,
Morgan Spurlock
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flying by: to go by very quickly (as if by flying)
Instead of the months flying by, forgotten, the time was much more memorable
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desk-dwelling: a dwelling is a house or a place to live in
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(He's always at his computer working, like a computer nerd = someone who likes
computers and technical things and doesn't have great social skills)
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I ended up hiking up Mt
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I also figured out that if you really want something badly enough, you can do anything for
30 days
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from scratch: from the beginning without using things that already exist
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to stick: to stay or to remain in place
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So why not think about something you have always wanted to try and give it a shot for
the next 30 days?
Conveying meaning
stuck in a rut: Definition, see above
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flying by: Mime / acting out / demonstration and personalisation
desk-dwelling : Mime / acting out / demonstration
a computer nerd: Mime / acting out / demonstration and personalisation

to end up: I will explore the context, personalising it for the students, e
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Did you find a
job when you finished your studies? Or you ended up doing something different?
to figure out: Definition, see above
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to stick: Definition, see above
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Checking understanding
stuck in a rut : Do I feel happy in my situation? (No) Am I bored with my situation? (Yes) Do
I want to change my situation? (Yes)
to follow in the footsteps of: Has someone done this thing before me? (Yes) Do I want to
do the same? (Yes)
flying by : Is it a slow or fast action? (Fast)
desk-dwelling: Do I spend a lot of time at the office? (Yes)
a computer nerd: Do I love computers? (Yes) Am I always working on my computer? (Yes)
Am I a social person? (No) Do I have great computer skills? (Yes)
to end up: Am I finally in my place or my situation? (Yes)
to figure out: Can I find the solution of a problem after thinking a lot about it? (Yes)
from scratch: Do I start right from the beginning or from the end? (From the beginning) Am
I using things that already exist? (No)
to stick: Does it remain or cease? (Remain) (hand gestures for cease)
give it a shot: Am I trying to do something? (Yes)
Form
stuck in a rut : fixed expression
to follow in the footsteps of +something/someone: fixed expression
flying by: phrasal verb
desk-dwelling: compound noun
a computer nerd: compound noun (adj + noun)
to end up: phrasal verb
to figure out + sth : phrasal verb
from scratch: fixed expression
to stick: verb, regular
give (it) a shot: semi-fixed expression
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10
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Teacher can double check understanding by asking students questions: “Can you
think of a time you were stuck in a rut?” etc
Form
2
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SS are told to decide which
words go in which gaps
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T–S
S–S
S–T
T–S
S –S
S-T
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T then shows the picture attached to the text and asks SS “What do you
think this person will talk about?”
Pairwork and feedback

While reading tasks

Reading for gist

To encourage Ss
to skim for
gist/general
understanding
and get an
overview of the
text

SS silently speed-read the text and answer this question: “What did
Matt Cutts decide to do and why?”
SS are told to write down two sentences to answer the question and
then to check with their partner to see if their ideas and predictions
were correct
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Individual work
Pair check
Boarded/Screened Feedback

T–S
S
S–S
S–T
10-15

Post reading tasks
Follow-up activity

To develop oral
fluency by
providing an
opportunity to
react to the
text; to
(further)
personalise the
topic

T screens Matt Cutts’ list of challenges and asks them to look at it
and to write their own in the same format (bullet points)
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T closely monitors during the speaking activity and writes down
potential errors SS make
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Boarded feedback of the most unexpected/original/funniest
challenges and delayed error correction, if necessary
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The idea is actually
pretty simple
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It turns out 30 days is just about the right
amount of time to add a new habit or subtract a
habit -- like watching the news -- from your life
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The first was, instead of the months
flying by, forgotten, the time was much more
memorable
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And I remember
exactly where I was and what I was doing that day
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I went from desk-dwelling computer nerd to the
kind of guy who bikes to work
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Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa
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I also figured out that if you really want something badly enough, you can do anything for 30 days
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It turns out, all you have to do is write 1,667 words
a day for a month
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By the way, the secret is not to go to sleep until you've written your words
for the day
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Now is my book the next great
American novel? No
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It's awful
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" No, no, if I want to, I can say, ‘I'm a novelist
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I learned that when I made small, sustainable changes,
things I could keep doing, they were more likely to stick
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In fact, they're a ton of fun
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When I gave up sugar for 30 days,
day 31 looked like this
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481 words

Source :
Official transcription of the video of Matt Cutts “Try something new for 30 days”
Filmed March 2011 at TED2011
https://www
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com/talks/matt_cutts_try_something_new_for_30_days/transcript?language=en

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Morgan Spurlock is an American writer and humorist
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000 steps a day
Which habit does he want to subtract?
No sugar in 30 days
No exercise in 30 days
No Facebook in 30 days
Which goals are more sustainable?
Big and crazy
Fun
Small
What happened with the photo challenge?
He didn't finish it
He remembered exactly where he was at that moment
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What was the other challenge?
Walk to work
Watch the news
Hike up Mount Kilimanjaro
Which ‘philosopher’ does he mention?
Kant
Morgan Spurlock
Matt Cutts
Which is the national novel writing month?
July
November
December
How many words do you have to write a day in the "a novel in 30 days" challenge?
50
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His discouragement grew
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How many days does the speaker say is the right amount of time to add or subtract a habit?
thirty days
forty days
thirteen days

Full name
Date
CELTA Course, City
Name of the institute

Word count: 821
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It is called “Try something new for 30 days” and was filmed at a TED
conference in 2011
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The document is about the theme of habits, be they
good or bad, and how to change them to set new and sustainable goals
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Harmer says the latter should be appropriate and neither too easy nor too difficult
(2015:307)
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Harmer says this may even be helpful for successful extensive
readings (2015:316)
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My experiences
in different academic levels and in different cities made me realise how much the
Algerian youth is ambitious and determined when it comes to social success
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This reading resource will certainly embrace their
aspirations and give them new and positive outlooks on life and time management
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Most students I have encountered in Algeria, be
they male or female, complain about their long-suffering routines
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This text will then be the perfect inspiration to illustrate
this issue along with providing its quick fix
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Also, they will find several phrasal verbs and idiomatic language
which is quite useful for an intermediate group
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In order to make the most of this document, we would also like to encourage and
develop skills for fluency
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Students will have to use the text as an example to
imagine their own 30-day challenges and eventually share their ideas with their
partners
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This final and delayed
communication task will help them with the building up of their confidence
because they had already dealt with this topic beforehand
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

Teaching and Learning in the Language Classroom, Tricia Hedge, Oxford University
Press

Further readings
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How to Teach English, New edition, Jeremy Harmer, Person Education Limited

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Learning Teaching, The Essential Guide to English Language Teaching, 3rd edition,
Jim Srivener, Macmillan

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A Course in Language Teaching, Practice and Theory, Penny Ur, Cambridge Teacher
Training and Development



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