Sample online english lesson (for teacher r1)

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An Online English Lesson (for instructor)

I must write proper

sentences.

I must take care of my Grammar.

I must speak using proper

English.

I must improve my

English Vocabulary

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English Speaking/Listening Unit

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In the next 6 pages of PPT, as instructor you will see pictures, some questions you could ask students to answer related to the pictures and sample answers of these questions.

In students' PPT, however, they will only see the pictures with a short narrative of the picture, e.g. "Dad, could you read me another story? I read that one on the internet today." Students could not see the questions and answers related to the pictures.

You can ask the students to answer the questions on the next 8 PPT slides in order to improve their English speaking & listening skills.

OpeningYou will ask student some general questions as the opening of the class.

Question group 1: Let’s talk about your home town or village:•what kind of place is it?•what’s the most interesting part of your town/village?•what kind of jobs do the people in your town/village do?•would you say it’s a good place to live? (why?)

Question group 2:

Let’s move on to talk about accommodation:•tell me about the kind of accommodation you live in?•how long have you lived there?•what do you like about living there?•what sort of accommodation would you most like to live in?

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Short presentation exercise1. Asking student to describe a fascinating job that she or he heard about.  

2. After student answer the question, you continue to ask:

Where you heard about it?

What kind of job it was?

What fascinated you, and

Explain why you thought it was fascinating.

3. How the working conditions in your country have changed in recent years?4. What was the cause of the change?5. What benefits in your opinion do workers need, apart from salary?

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#11. What do you think is the place of the scene in the Picture on the right ?

Answer: A Computer Service Centre2. What probably caused the computer to malfunction?

Answer: Cat hair all over the computer caused this. his

3. Express the first sentence in the Picture in another way.

Answer: “ There was no problem at all with your computer screen. ”

4. Write another creative expression for the Cartoon Picture.

Answer: “ We found strands of blonde hair trapped all over the keyboard. ”

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1. What do you think is the relationship between the two men in the Picture ?

Answer: 1 Boss and employee.

2. Would the boss be happy with the thing found in the suggestion box ? Explain briefly.

Answer: No, he would not be happy. A hangman rope suggests this : “The person in charge ought to be hanged for his terrible work.”

3. Give one purpose of having a suggestion box in a place like a bank or a supermarket.

Answer: To receive constructive criticisms and suggestions to improve the services offered.

4. Write another Caption for the Picture.

Answer: “A person from our rival company sent this as your birthday present.”

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1. Why did the woman ask the man to get rid of the chair ?

Answer: It was already spoilt and in a terrible condition.

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2. Replace the words “get rid” by a single word of a similar meaning.

Answer: dispose

3. What do you think the man was doing in the room ?

Answer: He was probably trying to rest on the chair and it collapsed.

4. Give another creative caption for the Picture above.

Answer: “ Since when have you joined the Invertebrates, the class of animals without backbones ? ”

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# 4

1. Give another word which can replace “advantage”.

Answer: benefit

2. Who do you think is making the comment to the owner of the house ?

Answer: A friend visiting the owner

3. State one disadvantage of living near a golf course.

Answer: Unwanted golf balls get hit into your house compound.

4. Write another creative caption for the Picture above.

Answer: “ Hey, what sort of alien birds have been laying these eggs in your house compound ? ”

English Reading Unit

In the next 4 PPT pages you will see two articles, some questions relating to the articles and answers of these questions.

In students’ PPT, they will only see the articles and the questions but not the answers.

First you ask the students to read the articles loud and then you ask them to attempt the questions in order to improve their English reading skills.

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First Article: Ready for Anything

Justin was always prepared. His bedroom was so full of flat bicycle tires, bent tennis rackets, deflated basketballs, and games with missing pieces that you could barely get in the door. His parents pleaded with him to clean out his room. "What use is a fish tank with a hole in the bottom?" his father asked. Justin's motto is: "Never throw anything out, you never know when it might come in handy." When Justin was away from home, he always carried his blue backpack. He liked to think of it as a smaller version of his bedroom—a place to store the many objects that he collected. It was full of the kind of things that seemed unimportant, but when used with a little imagination, might come in handy. Justin had earned a reputation for figuring things out and getting people out of otherwise hopeless situations. Many of his classmates and neighbors sought him out when they needed help with a problem.

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Questions of Article One

• Firs question: Why is Justin’s room such a mess?

Answer: he never throws anything away

• Second question: Justin had earned a reputation for figuring things out and getting people out of otherwise helpless situations. What does reputation mean in the context of the article?

Answer: : it means how is Justin thought by others.

• Third question: In what way is Justin’s backpack a smaller version of his bedroom?

Answer: Justin use his backpack as a place to store objects.

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Second Article: The Risk of Cigarette SmokeNicotine is only a small component of cigarette smoke, which contains more than 4,700 chemical compounds, including 43 cancer-causing substances. In addition to being responsible for more than 85 per cent of lung cancers, smoking is associated with cancers of, amongst others, the mouth, stomach and kidneys. In 1990, smoking caused more than 84,000 deaths. Smoking, it is believed, is responsible for 30 per cent of all deaths from cancer and clearly represents the most important preventable cause of cancer in countries like the United States today. Passive smoking, the breathing in of the side-stream smoke from the burning of tobacco between puffs or of the smoke exhaled by a smoker, also causes a serious health risk. As an illustration of the health risks, in the case of a married couple where one partner is a smoker and one a non-smoker, the latter is believed to have a 30 per cent higher risk of death from heart disease because of passive smoking. The risk of lung cancer also increases over the years of exposure and the figure jumps to 80 per cent if the spouse has been smoking four packs a day for 20 years. A more recent study by researchers at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) has shown that second-hand cigarette smoke does more harm to non-smokers than to smokers. Leaving aside the philosophical question of whether anyone should have to breathe someone else’s cigarette smoke.

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Questions of Article TwoQuestion 1: Is thirty per cent of deaths in the United States are caused by smoking-related diseases?

Answer: No, smoking only represent 30 per cent of all deaths from "cancer" but not 30 per cent deaths.

Question 2: If one partner in a marriage smokes, would the other be likely to take up smoking?

Answer: No, the article did not tell. It only says the non-smoker partner would have higher chance of of death from heart disease and lung cancer.

Question 3: Do the opponents of smoking financed the UCSF?

Answer: No, the article only says UCSF has shown that second-hand cigarette smoke does more harm to non-smokers than to smokers.

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