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Jessica D. Francisco
BEED Y2

WEEK 3: Content-based Instruction, Functions of Language

ACTIVITY 1:

1. Draw a table and fill-out the grid with the necessary details. Be guided by the given
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Topic Anatomy of Human Heart (from Science)

Vocabulary learned Pumps, organ, flow
Using vocabulary in a A bicycle pump puts air into the tires.
sentence. The river flows across the hillside.
Formulating/answerin How will you deal with the increasing flow of customer
g questions using traffic?
vocabulary learned How much tears flowed from our eyes?
(another mode of
meaning)
2. Give an expression representing each of the given linguistic functions of language.
1. Instrumental – I want to eat ice cream.
2. Regulatory- Hey, listen to this song.
3. Interactional- I feel safe with you.
4. Personal- I like spending my time alone.
5. Heuristic- How do you make people stay?
6. Imaginative- How chicken communicate with other chicken?
7. Representational- My coffee taste good.

3. Write a short paragraph on how you understand “content-based instruction.”

For me the “content-based instruction.” is to educate students to learn a language while

utilizing it in the context of any subject matter, so that they can learn it by using it in that context.
A language is studied within the context of a certain academic subject, rather than being learned
out of context.