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Standard 4: Continued
Commencement Sample Classroom Tasks:
English Proficiency Level
Beginning
The teacher creates a generic opinion phrase such as “What
a great idea.” Teacher models various ways of adding
meaning to the phrase with facial expressions and gestures
(enthusiastic, doubtful, sarcastic, jealous, encouraging, etc.).
Teacher secretly assigns each student a different emotion or
intention, and has students use facial expressions and gestures
to illustrate the emotion or intention when saying the
phrase. Other students try to guess the emotion.
Performance indicators: 1, 9
Intermediate
Teacher goes over a list of emoticons (emotional icons) and
acronyms commonly used in e-mail messages (e.g., :-)
[funny], lol [laughing out loud], btw [by the way]), writing
in capital letters, etc.). In pairs, students write e-mail messages
to each other, using various emoticons and acronyms
from the list. Recipients read messages to the class, substituting
appropriate gestures, expressions, and voice inflections
for emoticons and acronyms. The class guesses
which emoticons were used.
Performance indicators: 1, 9
Students choose a safety procedure from one of their content
area classes (science, technology, PE, etc.). With
teacher support, they create a flowchart poster describing
the procedure, and use the poster as they demonstrate the
safety procedure for the class.
Performance indicators: 10, 11
Students choose a safety procedure from one of their content
area classes (science, technology, PE, etc.). In small
groups, they prepare a handout describing the procedure,
using step-by-step directions. They refer to the handout
while demonstrating the procedure to the class.
Performance indicators: 3, 5, 10, 11
ESL
4
Comm
102 Learning Standards for ESL