English Language Teaching in its Social Context

1THE DEVELOPMENT OF EFL METHODOLOGY 161Pallavan Transport Corporation(Madras City)a Students can buy and use bus tokens for a month, buying a ticket for each busjourney.b The cost of tokens is as follows:30 tokens Rs 7.5060 tokens Rs 15.0090 tokens Rs 22.50120 tokens Rs 30.00c A student has to buy at least 30 tokens a month. He/she cannot buy more than 120tokens a month.d One token is equal to one bus ticket: the student has to give a token to theconductor of the bus, instead of buying a ticket from him.e Tokens should be used only for the purpose of travelling between one’s home andthe school or college where one is studying.f Tokens should be bought each month between the 1st and the 15th. They can beused only between the 16th of that month and the 15th of the next month.g No money will be refunded on unused tokens.h Only full-time students of a school, college, or university can buy and use bustokens. They have to produce a certificate from the head of the institution to showthat they are full-time students.ijTokens cannot be transferred from one person to another.If a student misuses his/her tokens, he/she will not be allowed to buy any moretokens during that year.Pre-task After a glossing, at the students’ request, of some words (for example‘refunded’, ‘misused’) and a preliminary discussion, involving questions, about thenature of some rules (for example on the point that tokens can be bought only inmultiples of thrty and that a direct bus from home to school involves the use of a singletoken while a change of buses involves using one token on each bus), the followingcase is discussed as the pre-task:IRaman is a student of the Government Arts College in Nandanam. He lives inT. Nagar.He has classes from Monday to Friday each week and eats his lunch at the collegecanteen.There are direct buses fromT. Nagar to Nandanam.1 How many bus tokens does Raman need each week?2 How many tokens does he need for a month (i.e. 4 weeks, by convention)?3 A bus ticket from T. Nagar to Nandanam costs Rs 0.50. How much does Ramansave by buying tokens?4 How many tokens should he buy each month? Why? How many will he actuallyuse?5 Raman’s brother goes to a High School in Saidapet. Can he use Raman’s extratokens? How do you know?