Assignment - SGP

FINAL TASK FOR UNIT 4:

STYLE GUIDES AND PUNCTUATION

GENERAL INFORMATION:

This unit assignment consists of doing the tasks presented below. This assignment
must be done individually. It must be submitted according to the official submission
procedure described in the web page where this file was downloaded. Assignments
send directly to the tutor by email will not be corrected. The work must fulfil the
following conditions:

- Length: between 2 and 3 pages (without including cover, index or appendices –if
there are any–). Any assignment that exceeds or does not reach the length will be
considered failed.
- Type of font: Arial or Times New Roman.
- Size: 11.
- Line height: 1.5.
- Alignment: Justified.
- Margins: 2.5 above and down, left and right 3 (usual default configuration).

The assignment has to be done in this Word document. Please, do not write the
answers in bold, in order to simplify the distinction between them and the activities’
statements. On the other hand, the assignment must still fulfil the rules of presentation
and edition, and follow the rubric for quoting and making bibliographical in the Study
Guide.

It is very important to read the assessment criteria, which can be found in the Study
Guide. This final task for Unit 4 will evaluate the conditions of presentation presented
below, the assessment criteria and, specially, the accomplishment of the objectives of
this unit:

 To lay the foundations for the correct use of typographic and punctuation signs.
 Raise awareness about the need to use the vast body of tools effectively in the
development of academic writing in English, in order to succeed in the proper
and accurate delivery of the intended written discourse.

The tasks which do not fulfil the terms of submission will not be corrected.
In addition, the participation in the additional tasks is mandatory and it is part of the
final mark.

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The file name has to include the following data:

*Number of the group the student belongs.
*Student’s name initial and the surname.
*The unit’s name initial.

For example, following the data below:

Student: Samuel López
Group: 2013-06
Unit: Style guides and punctuation
The correct files name would be: 2013-06SLópez_SGP

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Task: Motivation when teaching English as a foreing language

You have been asked to create an interesting activity using extra materials for a
beginning English lesson for teenagers aged 12-14. Read the posts in this blog
(http://www.tefl.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=481) and use them to develop the task
below:

Briefly describe the activity and write a 250 - 350 words text about what, in your
opinion you need to take into account to create an interesting (read “motivating”)
activity.

The text is a academic text (you need to use references and everything you have learn
about academic writing) and, thus, punctuation and typography are of paramount
importance.

Interesting classroom activities

Unread post by Dqueen » 26 Sep 2005, 18:30

Hello everyone,

I am supposed to make a presentation to my colleagues on interesting classroom

activities. I am in urgent need of some ideas. My main activity is using madlibs, but I
need more. By the way, I live in Turkey and teach English as a second language. I
teach primary school kids but the ideas can also be applicable to middle school
students. I want to introduce different games or activities other teachers can play with
their students when they teach grammar and the four skills. It would be very nice if
these activities are not much heard of. Thanks already.

Re: Interesting classroom activities

Unread post by patsensei » 28 Feb 2006, 13:57

Have you ever tried "running dictation"? what you do is you make about 8 sentences
and you cut them up and tape them up around the room. then you make the class into
pairs. So one student runs and looks at the sentence taped up around the room and
tells the other student who writes down the sentence.
It's a good activity because it uses both writing, reading listening and speaking. Hope
that helps.

Unread post by ForumAngel » 22 Sep 2006, 01:44

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Here's a really fun review activity that the kids love. This exact example was given to
me by one of my customers who is using and adapting my games:

Have your pupils start about 4 feet from their "a/an" worksheet. Have three rows with
16 words in each row. On the desk where the children start they have a piece of lined
paper. Have pencils at both ends so that they aren't running with them. The words in
the list should be words you have already introduced and had some speaking practise
with.

On "Go" the pupils run from their desk to the worksheet and write the appropriate "a" or
"an" in front of the word. They then run back to their respective desks and write it out in
full. For example if they put down "an" in front of egg, then they run back and write, "an
egg". The fastest person with the highest accuracy is the winner.
Of course you can play down the competitive element, and with 4-5 year olds make
sure that everyone wins. Competition is a whole different subject anyway.

This idea can be adapted to all sorts of writing ideas – spelling, fill in the blanks, verb
endings…anything as long as it does not involve writing out long sentences.

While the idea is best for beginners to lower intermediates, you could probably use it
now and again with an advanced class just to drill in a particular target structure, or to
work with some words which you notice are frequently wrong.

Re: Interesting classroom activities

Unread post by jonnielsen » 05 Feb 2010, 14:47

I have just remembered some activities we used to do at the American Language
School. When one of the students says a word, the one next to him/her must say
another word that starts with the final letter of the word said by his/her classmate. It
was a real fun! It also helped us with spelling. We were not allowed to write the words.
We had to imagine the spelling in next to no time. The teacher used to give us tongue
twisters and asked us to practice them to improve our pronunciation, too. He also used
to give us some letters and asked us to form as much words as possible using them.
The reason behind this activity was to teach us that using a method always helps.
Because we did not follow any method and we were doing it at random. I hope these
activities will help you.
"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. "
Editor @ Daily Reviews

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Re: Interesting classroom activities

Unread post by philip » 16 Jul 2011, 11:27

Classrooms are the basic creation of every students and their whole life. So in the
academic life the students can make more funs and hobbies to reduce the academic
stress. There have a lot of class room activities. The Favorite Hobbies among Students
includes Writing,photographing,stampcollection,reading etc. Writing and reading is the
important hobbies that will get the best creativity and it helps to improve the thinking
ability of a student.
Re: Interesting classroom activities

Unread post by OscarEF » 22 Nov 2018, 04:40

An interesting class activity I do with my Students, it is that I give them a topic and they
have to think as many words they can that are related to the topic while they pass by a
ball or dot, then when they are finished saying all the sentences or words that were
related to the topic I place a song (Coldplay, Twenty-One Pilots or Imagine Dragon)
and let them write a small response or comment of how to the topics can be related to
each other. it takes around 10 minutes to play it. it follows the writing process, the
students learned vocabulary and it helps them to think.

Re: Interesting classroom activities

Unread post by Talitsa » 05 Feb 2019, 12:26

My kids' favourite is called Ping-Pong. It's a kind of Hangman, which is played by 2
teams. One of them guesses the word by letters as usual, and the other tries to find
which letters are out of this word. The hidden word has to be long enough, because the
first team wins in case of its guessing and the second wins in case of saying the same
number of letters. It's from here: http://ideas4el.com/Games/ There are lots of other
interesting games on this website.