Integrated task

· Choose a text (dialogue or monologue) from an English language course-book (indicate the author, year of publication, title, publisher and pages)

· Describe the textual material (level of difficulty, primary, secondary or tertiary level students, topic)

· Indicate what grammar from the text can be used for teaching

· Specify what vocabulary and expressions from the text can be used for teaching

· Clarify what information from the text can be used for teaching

· Answer the following questions:

A/ Is the text interesting and motivating for learners?

B/ Is the text authentic-like and why?

C/ Is the text comprehensible?

D/ Is text grammar easy for learning?

E/ Is text vocabulary easy for learning?

F/ Are expressions from the text worth memorising?

G/ Does the text provoke a discussion?

H/ Can this text be turned into a role-play?

I/ Would you like to improve this text in any way (make it easier or more difficult, add more vocabulary, focus on a certain grammar etc)?

· Can you recommend this text for using in language teaching and why? On what conditions?

Answer keys

Warming-up discussion 0

(Tips: 1D In a way this s true 2F Partly human languages have arisen from the animals’ calls and cries and still have exclamations and interjections. 3F Language grammar appeared some 60 years ago and its fundamental structure has not changed since. 4F Animals can acquire only rudiments of the human language and never use it for communication between themselves or teach it to offspring. 5T 6T 7T Language is a non-random system because all the known languages have some universal features in common) (After Harley, T. 1997. P. 5-10; Aitchison, J. 1999. P. 24-26; Chomsky, N. 1980. Rules and Representations. Oxford: Blackwell. P. 57).

SAQ 1.1

Tips: 1B 2C 3F 4G 5D

Exploratory task 1.1

1 do not smoke, 2 as well as, 3 was, 4 station was, 5 start school, 6 who, 7 have lived, 8 make mistakes, 9 such terrible, 10 interested, 11 for two years

Exploratory task 1.2

1C 2E 3B 4A 5D

Exploratory task 2.1

Tips: 1 on the telephone asking to wait a little, 2 in the pub warning that it’s 10.45 p.m., 3 in the expensive clothes shop, 4 in an invitation to a party, 5 in an e-mail message, 6 calling for caution and hope, 7 congratulating on a birthday, 8 asking for the order at a restaurant, 9 at a shop, 10 at any public place where repairs are being done, 11 at home asking somebody to open the door to a caller

Exploratory task 2.5

A2 B1 C3