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This document provides guidelines for an assignment requiring candidates to analyze specific language items from a sample text, including meaning, form, pronunciation, and appropriacy. Candidates must anticipate problems learners may have and propose solutions. Two example answers are provided analyzing a grammar structure and lexical item to demonstrate the required structure. The document also addresses frequently asked questions about the assignment requirements.

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Written Assignment 2: Language Related Tasks: Example 2 in The Example Answers Below The Text)

This document provides guidelines for an assignment requiring candidates to analyze specific language items from a sample text, including meaning, form, pronunciation, and appropriacy. Candidates must anticipate problems learners may have and propose solutions. Two example answers are provided analyzing a grammar structure and lexical item to demonstrate the required structure. The document also addresses frequently asked questions about the assignment requirements.

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Written Assignment 2: Language related tasks

On the next page is a typical text that you might get students to read in class. It contains some
useful language.

Look at the items from the text in the box below. Choose two of the grammar structures and two
of the items of lexis and for each of them do the following:

• analyse the meaning. You may include further examples/extension (as in


Example 2 in the example answers below the text)

• highlight the form

• highlight key pronunciation features

• focus on appropriacy where necessary

• anticipate problems that students might have with meaning, form, pronunciation and
appropriacy and suggest solutions. In the solutions you need to say how you would
convey meaning and how you would check understanding e.g. concept checking questions,
timelines and personalisation

• state which references you have used to help you in your analysis.

1. …everything that has happened to us during the day. (grammar)

2. We can put off sleeping for a limited period. (lexis)

3. …but sooner or later we have to sleep. (grammar)

4. …we suffer hallucinations, and eventually die. (lexis)

5. …the unpleasant symptoms we suffer. (lexis)

6. If scientists invented a pill, would you take it? (grammar – second conditional)

Two example answers, one grammar and one lexis, have been done for your guidance. These can be
found after the text.

Assessment criteria

Cambridge ESOL specifies that for the Language related tasks assignment, successful candidates
can demonstrate their learning by:

• analysing language correctly for teaching purposes


• correctly using terminology relating to form, meaning and phonology when analysing
language
• accessing reference materials and referencing information they have learned about to an
appropriate source
• using written language that is clear, accurate and appropriate to the task.

Word count: 750 – 1000 words


Clive Oxenden and Christina Latham-Koenig, English File Intermediate, 1999, OUP

Guidelines for Assignment 2: Language Related Tasks

In this assignment you are required to analyse the meaning, form, pronunciation and appropriacy
of specific language items. As a practising teacher, you will need to do this whenever you are
preparing to clarify language. It’s important to analyse MFPA at the planning stage, so that you can
clarify language effectively during the lesson. Anticipating problems learners may have with the
language and finding suitable solutions is also crucial at the planning stage. See the examples on
the following pages.
Example answers

The following example answers will help you structure your language analysis. The first one is
grammar and the second lexis. Both language items are from the same text on sleep.

Example 1: A few minutes later, they will be asleep. (grammar)

Meaning
In this sentence will is used to express certainty/strong prediction about a future situation.

Form

will + bare infinitive


they will be asleep

This structure is referred to as the future simple.


Will is a modal auxiliary verb and is followed by the bare infinitive of the main verb.
Be is a copular verb and is followed by an adjective.
In informal speaking and writing we use the contraction ‘ll after pronouns in affirmative sentences
(e.g. they’ll).

Pronunciation

 
…they will be asleep.

/bɪ ə sli:p/

There is linking between be and asleep.


Sentence stress is placed on the pronoun they and the adjective asleep.

Anticipated problems and solutions

1. Problem: Students may not understand the tense/meaning of ‘will be’ in the example.
Solution: Highlight the fact that asleep is an adjective which follows the main verb.
Convey meaning by clarifying that ‘will be’ refers to future certainty. Check the students’
understanding with the following concept-checking questions (CCQs):

Are we talking about the future? Yes


Are we sure this is going to happen? Yes
2. Problem: Students may say ‘they will to be asleep’ using the full infinitive with ‘to’
instead of the bare infinitive.
Solution: Elicit the correct form of the verb. Cross out the ‘to’ on the board and write
bare infinitive above the correction.
3. Problem: Students may stress will when they are speaking, which can suggest a degree
of obstinate insistence.

e.g. ‘…they will be asleep.’
Solution: Elicit and mark the correct sentence stress on the board. Model and drill.

References

Swan, Michael. Practical English Usage Oxford University Press, 2002


Parrott, Martin. Grammar for English Language Teachers Cambridge University Press, 2000

Example 2: …because we have disobeyed our brain’s programming. (lexis)

Meaning
When someone disobeys a person or an order they deliberately do not do what they have
been told to do.

Other examples: School children who disobey school rules, children who disobey their
parents,
People who disobey the law.
Extension: People disobey the law if they drive over the speed limit, smoke in non-smoking
areas or steal objects from shops or houses.

Form

Disobeyed is the past participle of the verb disobey.


Disobey is normally followed by an object: to disobey someone / a rule / a law / an order.

Pronunciation

 
…we have disobeyed our brain’s programming.
/dɪsəˈbeɪd/

There are three syllables and the main stress is placed on the last syllable.
The second syllable is a schwa /ə/
The –ed ending of the past participle is pronounced /d/

Anticipated problems and solutions

1. Problem: Students may think that disobey has a similar meaning to disagree and that
the example in the text means that we do not agree with the brain’s programming.
Solution: Use CCQs to show that disobey means not following orders rather than a
difference in opinion: Did we do what we were told to do? No. Did we choose not to
follow orders? Yes. Elicit examples of other contexts in which people do not follow
orders to reinforce meaning.
2. Problem: Students may pronounce the -ed ending as /ɪd/ instead of /d/.
Solution: Emphasise the /d/ sound and use back-chaining, e.g. start by modelling and
drilling the sound /d/ followed by /beɪd/ then /əˈbeɪd/ and finally the whole word
/dɪsəˈbeɪd/.
3. Problem: Students may use the word disobey in an inappropriate context and say ‘I
disobeyed his advice’ when they mean that they chose not to follow someone’s advice.
Solution: Highlight that you can only disobey someone who has the power or right to set
the rules. Provide examples of people who have the right to set the rules: teachers,
parents and policemen. References………

Language Related Tasks Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Q. Do we need to include information for each of the bullet points in this assignment?
A. Yes. Generally if any information is omitted the assignment will need to be resubmitted.

Q. Is it always necessary to anticipate any potential problems and solutions with language?
A. Yes. There may not be problems with all three areas: meaning, form and pronunciation, but there
will be a range of problems. You need to look at the language from the learners’ viewpoint.

Q. Is there anything else important to remember?


A. Yes. When you anticipate problems with language you must remember to put how you are going to
deal with them. With vocabulary you should say how you are going to illustrate meaning.

Q. What can we use for language analysis?


A. Use good grammar references and, for vocabulary, use dictionaries. If using internet sources for
language analysis please check carefully as they are not always accurate. Remember to cite your
sources. See the Plagiarism policy in your CELTA 5.

Q. Do I have to use phonemic script?


A. If you can, you’ll be given credit for it but it is not a requirement.

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