Delta Module One, Paper 1, Task 3 : what learners need to know (1)
You will be given a section of published ELT materials and
directed to some of the language features learners would need to be
able to command successfully to complete the task.
Your task is to provide three more things they need to know
with examples of what you mean.
This question carries 12% of the possible marks so spend no more
than 10 minutes on it.
This task for the learners is a familiar information-gap one.
Learner A is given a town-centre map with half the information
missing and Learner B gets a map with the other half missing.
Between them, they have to fill in the information that is missing
from their maps. In other words, they are practising asking
for and giving information about where things are.
They are
asked to imagine that they have accosted a stranger on the street to
ask for information so they have to be as polite as possible.
An example of part of what the learners have is something like:
Student A | Student B |
The learners will, of course, need to be able to:
- Use simple prepositions of place, e.g., opposite, in, at etc.
- Ask questions with where ...?
- Use the copular verb be in, e.g., It is in Hope Street
Can you come up with three more things
with examples that the learners will need to
be able to do to complete the task? In the examination, you
only need three but think of more if you can.
Click here
for a list of 12 possibilities when you have.
- They will need to know how to pronounce the target items, e.g., hospital as /ˈhɒ.spɪt.l̩/ (including the tricky syllabic /l̩/) and library as /ˈlaɪ.brər.i/ or /ˈlaɪ.bri/).
- They will need to be aware of politeness strategies (because
they are speaking to a stranger) and be able to use, e.g.:
Excuse me, I wonder if ... / Can you ... etc. - They will need to be able to introduce answers politely with, e.g., falling intonation on Yes, of course, ... etc.
- They will need to be able to use polite intonation with a
rising tone on questions such as
Can you direct me to the shopping centre? - They will need to be able to use embedded question word
order as in
Can you tell me where Pleasant Place is?
rather than
*Can you tell me where is Pleasant Place? - They will need some awareness of the use of definite and zero articles as in, e.g., The High Street, Ø Hope Street, the hospital, the shopping centre, Ø Pleasant Place etc.
- They will, to be natural, need to use noun complements / objects in prepositional phrases so they can produce, e.g., on the corner, opposite the school etc.
- They will need to control the politeness modality can /
could as in, e.g.
Could / Can you tell me where ... - They may need to use polite imperatives with the pronouns, e.g.:
You go along Hope Street and turn left at ... etc. - They may need to be able to express ignorance politely as
in, e.g.:
I'm sorry, I'm afraid I don't know
etc. This will be true if the materials include a 'rogue' to target this exponent. - They will need to be able to follow up the enquiry and
response with a polite closer such as:
Thanks very much, that's helpful
etc. - They will need to be able to repeat and/or clarify what
they hear as in, e.g.:
Ah, at the end of the square
Do I turn left or right?
etc.
You may have thought of others. You only have to find three but you must exemplify all of them (as above).
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