Summit 2 workshop ms carmen maria barbosa august 2010

Wednesday August 4th, 2010

Msc Carmen Maria Barbosa

•High –intermediate to advanced communicative series.•Designed for 60 to 90 instructional hours

•KEY ELEMENTS:

•Two page lesson is designed for one class session and begins with a clearly stated communicative goal and ends with free communicative practice.

•* Each lesson integrates all four skills with a focus on conversation, grammar, reading or listening

•* Keeps the pace of a class session lived and varied

•High –intermediate to advanced communicative series.•Designed for 60 to 90 instructional hours

•KEY ELEMENTS:

•Two page lesson is designed for one class session and begins with a clearly stated communicative goal and ends with free communicative practice.

•* Each lesson integrates all four skills with a focus on conversation, grammar, reading or listening

•* Keeps the pace of a class session lived and varied

Dealing confirmation of Progress

Summit students conclude each class a culminating productive activity that demonstrates their ability to use new vocabulary, grammar, word skills and social language in order to perform the communication goal of the lesson.

Exposes students to authentic, natural, corpus-informed English

All Conversation Snapshots and Sound bites feature the language people really use

Full range of social and functional communicative needs as well as a wealth of conversation strategies are presented through practical model conversations applied to the learner's own life’s experience

UNIT GOALS : Clearly state the communication goals of the unit

Topic Preview: Previews the content of the unit, builds schema and develops academic skills.

Sound Bites: Presents a snapshot of authentic conversation language for observation.

In Other Words: Provides practice inferring meaning and idioms from context.

Starting Point: Accesses prior knowledge and gets students talking.

Communication Goal : Assures students of what they’ll achieve in a two-page lesson.

Conversation Snapshot: Provides a memorable and practical model of social language and essential conversational strategies ( Ss CD-Rom)

Vocabulary: Presentations include words, phrases and collocations. Opportunity to use the vocabulary always follows.

Personalization: frequent opportunities are provided to apply new language to student’s own lives.

Conversation Focus:

Conversation Starter: Students apply the conversation strategies in free discussion and role plays.

Students apply conversation strategies and new vocabulary.

Pronunciation booster: Promotes accurate pronunciation of spoken English.

Grammar Snapshot: Illustrates grammar in context and provokes interest in the topic of the lesson. (Ss Cd Rom)

Grammar Booster: Gives additional explanations, charts, and reviews as well as more practice. ( Book G1 )

Grammar Exchange: Offers students an opportunity to engage in discussion using the target grammar

Grammar charts: Clear presenations address form, meaning and use.

Vocabulary: Presentation includes words, phrases, and collocations. Opportunities to use the vocabulary always follows.

Discussion builder: Step and step discussion activities ensure succesful discussion for all learners.

Listening Comprenhension: Intensive and extensive practice provokes lively discussions.

Models: Frequent student speaking models get discussion started

Reading Warm-up: Builds expectations for better reading comprehension

Reading: Substantive readings builds academic skills and provide information for interesting discussions.

Reading Authenticity: All readings come from authentic sources and build students’ confidence and ability to approach academic content.

Comprehension Exercises : Build academic and critical thinking skills and promote discussion

Writing: Complete writing syllabus builds key skills

Writing Models: Make expectations clear. Step by Step Process Approach: helps

students generate ideas and builds the habit of editing their own work.

Checkpoint: Integrated skills checkpoints permit students to consolidate, review and confirm what they’ve learned

Workbook :an illustrated workbook contains exercises that provide additional practice and reinforcement of language concepts and skills from the Summit Student’s Book and its Grammar Booster.

Video TV Materials : Summit TV includes real TV documentaries and authentic unrehearsed interviews are accompanied by Activity Worksheets and Teaching notes.

Class Audio Program contains listening comprehension activities, rhythm and intonation practice, recorded readings and targeted pronunciation activities that focus on accurate and comprehensible pronunciation. To prepare students to communicate with a variety of speakers, regional and non-native accents are included.