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1 Learning to Learn

1.1 What kind of person are you? What kind of learner are you?
Focus: To increase awareness, that just as there are different personalities in the group, there are different learning styles.

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1.2 Wanted – good students!
Focus: to think about and share ideas about what makes a good student.

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1.3 Thinking about reading in English
Focus: to think about the skill of reading, and to develop reading strategies.

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1.4 Thinking about writing in English
Focus: to think about the skill of writing, and to develop writing strategies.

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1.5 Thinking about listening in English
Focus: to think about the skill of listening and to develop listening skills.

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1.6 Thinking about speaking in English
Focus: to think about the skill of speaking and to develop listening skills.

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1.7 Giving advice to new students
Focus: to think about and evaluate learning and learning strategies.

   
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2 Whole Book Activities

2.1 Finding your way around the textbook
Focus: getting to know the textbook BEFORE starting the subject class.

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2.2 What to find in your textbook
Focus: becoming more familiar with textbooks; writing sentences.

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3 Listening

3.1 Responding to classroom language
Focus: to get used to responding to classroom instructions.

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3.2 Collecting classroom language
Focus: developing awareness of idiomatic language.

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3.3 Using television to improve your English
Focus: developing listening skills during your leisure time.

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3.4 Using radio to improve your English
Focus: developing listening skills during your leisure time.

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3.5 Picture dictations
Focus: developing listening and comprehension skills.

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4 Speaking

4.1 Stress in long words
Focus: building awareness that the writing system of English is an unreliable guide to pronunciation.

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4.2 Preparing extended speech
Focus: how preparation can help speaking skills.

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4.3 Tricky situations
Focus: developing speaking strategies for different situations.

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4.4 Commonly used phrases
Focus: practising conversations.

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5 Reading

5.1 Predicting words in a text
Focus: practising reading skills and widening vocabulary.

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5.2 Sentences in a text
Focus: using clues to work out which sentences don’t belong.

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5.3 Timed reading
Focus: becoming faster at reading.

 
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6 Writing

6.1 Making a word search puzzle
Focus: revising vocabulary, spelling.

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6. 2 Mutual dictations (poem)
Focus: working in pairs to practise writing, reading listening and speaking.

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6. 3 Mutual dictations (text)
Focus: working in pairs to practise writing, reading listening and speaking.

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6. 4 Linking words and sentences
Focus: linking ideas in order to write good sentences and paragraphs.

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6. 5 Writing Summaries
Focus: developing both writing and reading skills.

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Words/phrases related to Junior Certificate Modern Foreign Languages

(many words may also apply to the study of JC Latin)