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Written by ASUMAN BİRDAL

ELEMENTARY MATTERS

Writing

Sub-skill: Vocabulary

Testing type: “LISTING”

1.      Look at the photograph.

a) Make a list of the English words you know. Which words are the same in your language?

Aims:

*To see the learners’ vocabulary knowledge and whether they can recall them or not.

*To assess learners’ knowledge in remembering, classifying, associating and listing the things presented – or not presented as it is in the above example.

References: The same kind of test type questions can also be seen in;

Unit 1, Focus on Grammar 6 a.

Unit 3, Focus on Grammar 4 a.

Unit 4, Review 2.

Unit 6, Focus on Vocabulary 1b

Unit 7, Focus on Vocabulary 4c.

Unit 8, Focus on Vocabulary 1c, 4a

           Focus on Grammar 1a

           Skills 2a

Unit 11, Focus on Grammar 1d

Practise …(units 7-9); 3a

Speaking

Test type: “COMPARE AND CHECK”

1 b) Work with a partner and compare your list.

Aims:

*To give chance for learners to glance at the things that they have studied on.

*To make learners interact and communicate with each other.

*To provide students to see what they and their mates have done and share their knowledge.

* To supply an environment for learners to compare their knowledge and find out the possible right answer/s.

References:    Unit 1, Focus on Grammar            6b

                                  Skills    1b

Unit 5,            Focus on Grammar         1g

Skills 2c

Unit 7, Social English  2c

Unit 8, Focus on Grammar            1b

Unit 9, Skills            3c

Unit 10, Focus on Grammar1b

  Review  1b

Unit 11, Focus on Vocabulary 1b

                          Focus on Grammar 1c

Unit 12, Focus on Vocabulary 2b

   Skills 1e

Listening and Speaking

Test type: “REPETITION”

 2.Look at the alphabet.

a)      Listen and practise saying the letters.

Aims:

*To make learners practise saying the words/ utterances they have heard.

*To provide kearners with the right pronunciation.

*To make them learn the pronunciation of this newly learnt items.

 References:

Check Your English, In The Classroom 3b, 4c

Check Your English, Hellos and Goodbyes, 1b, 1c,5b

Check Your English, Talking Anout People, 1d

Unit 1, Social English, 2b, 2c

Unit 3, Social English 1a,3b

 Writing

Test type: “TRANSFORMATION”

 3.a) Write the correct number next to the word.

Eight    8            two                  fourteen            eighteen

Six                   three                nineteen            eleven

One                 nine                  twenty              fifteen

Five                 four                  seventeen        twelve

ten                   seven               thirteen            sixteen

 8. THE POSSESSİVE WİTH ‘S

 Write sentences. Use the words in brackets to replace the underlined words.

 1.      Where is his car? (the waiter)

Where is the waiter’s car?

       2    Their newspapers are in the restaurant.(the men)

The men’s newspapers are in the restaurant.

3.      Is it her coat? (the teacher)

4.      These are his apples. (Jim)

5.      I’ ve got their pizza. (Jim and Sally)

6.      Those are her postcards. (Julie)

7.      Where are their books? (the policemen)

8.      Her bag is in the classroom. (Sally)

9.      His radio is in the hotel. (the man)

 Aims:

*To see if the learners comprehend the structure studied or not.

*To make them practise the subject they have studied.

 References: See also;

Revision and Extension  4a,5b,5a,8

                                Unit 2  Skills 4b

                                Unit 6  Skills 1e

                        Practise…(10-12); 5b

Workbook     

                        Check You English ; 7,15,19

                        Unit 1;  2a, 8

                        Unit 2;  13a, 5

                        Unit 3; 4a

                        Unit 8; 9a, 9b

                        Unit 9; 3, 11b, 12b.

                        Unit 10; 5

Writing

Test type: “ TRUE/ FALSE”

 2.      c) Look at the photograph again. Are these sentences true(T) or False(F)?

 There is/ are

1. six tables               4. Two cassettes                      7.three guitars

2. five students                      5. One poster                          8. Eight books

3. Seven pens                 6. Five chairs                           9. One taxi

Aims:

*To see whether the learners can differentiate the correct usage from the incorrect one.

*To assess the learners’ knowledge.

*To provide the learners with a practise which provides them to comprehend the subject matter by seeing the false usage and by making them aware of the wrong usage, which caters the learning more easily.

 References:See also;

Check Your English, People Doing Things 1b

Unit 2, Focus On Vocabulary 2a,

           Skills 1e

Unit 4, Skills 2c

Unit 5, Skills 2d

Unit 8, Skills 1 e

Unit 9, Focus on Grammar 3a

Unit 10, Focus on Grammar 1a

Unit 12, Skills 1 d

            Workbook

                        Unit 3; 11

                        Unit4; 11a

                        Unit 7; 4

 Reading and Writing

Test Type:     “MATCHING”

 4. Listen to three conversations from Spanish lesson in Britain.

a)      Match the conversations with the pictures.

 Aims:

*To see whether the learners comprehend or not.

*To assess the learners’ ability to change the one item to an another one without changing the meaning/ the range of the events/ etc.

* To make learners practise the items related or non-related with each other by matching them.  

 References: see also;

Check Your English Hellos and Goodbyes, 1a, 3a, 3c

Revision and Extension, 1a

Unit 1, Skills 1a,

 Social English 1a, 2a

Unit 2, Focus on Vocabulary 1a, 4a

                                    Focus on Grammar 4

                                    Skills 1a       

Unit 3, Focus on Vocabulary 1a

                                    Focus on Grammar 1b

Social English 3

Unit4             Focus on Vocabulary 1a, 1b

                                    Focus on Grammar 7b

                                    Social English 2b

Unit 5            Focus on Vocabulary 1a, 1b, 3a, 3b

                                    Skills  1, 2a

Unit 6  Focus on Vocabulary 1a, 3a

Focus on Grammar2a, 2b

Skills  1d

Unit 7 Focus on Vocabulary 1b, 3a

                                    Focus on Grammar 1b, 1c, 2a

                                    Social English 1a

Unit 8, Focus on vocabulary 1a, 1b, 3f

                                    Skills 1d, 3

Unit 9 Focus on Vocabulary 1c,3c

                                    Focus on Grammar 5a

                                    Skills 1a, 1b, 1f

                                    Social English 1b

Unit 10 Focus on Vocabulary 1a, 1b, 2a,3a

                                    Focus on Grammar 4

                                    Skills 1d

Unit 11, Skills 1b

Unit 12, Focus on Vocabulary 1a, 2a                    

            Workbook

                        Check Youe English; 21b

                        Unit 1; 4a, 7, 11

                        Unit 4; 1a, 8a,9 ,10

                        Unit 5; 8a

                        Unit 6; 2a, 7a, 9a, 12

                        Unit 7; 11

                        Unit 8; 3a, 11

                        Unit 9; 1a, 6,8c, 13

                        Unit 10; 9

Unit 11; 4a, 9

Unit 12; 13a

 Listening and Writing

Test type: “LISTENING COMPLETION”

 4 b) Listen again and complete the sentences.

Aims:

*To assess learners’ comprehension of the thing that they have listened.

*To assess whether the learners can write down the thing/s they have heard.

*To provide learners to hear the native sound and whether they can understand it or not.

 References: see also;

Check Your English 4b

 Talking About People 1a, 2b

Unit 2, Focus on Vocabulary 4b

Unit 3 Focus on Vocabulary 3b

Focus on Grammar 2a

Skills 1a

Unit4, Focus on Vocabulary 3a, 5b

Unit 5 3c

Unit 7 5a

Social English 2e

Unit 9, Focus on Vocabulary 2b

           Skills 3a

Unit 10 Skills 2b

Unit 11 Focus on Vocabulary 3b

            Workbook

                        Unit 9; 10

                        Unit 11; 15, 16

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