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    This document provides a target language analysis sheet for a CELTA lesson on writing postcards. It summarizes the key elements to be covered: greeting, use of the present perfect tense, use of the future "be + going" construction, and closings. It outlines methods for checking student understanding, like a Google Form, and addresses potential problems students may have with the meaning, form, and appropriateness of these postcard elements. Pronunciation is noted as not applicable for a writing lesson. Sources for further reference are also included.

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    This document provides a target language analysis sheet for a CELTA lesson on writing postcards. It summarizes the key elements to be covered: greeting, use of the present perfect tense, use of the future "be + going" construction, and closings. It outlines methods for checking student understanding, like a Google Form, and addresses potential problems students may have with the meaning, form, and appropriateness of these postcard elements. Pronunciation is noted as not applicable for a writing lesson. Sources for further reference are also included.

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    Tlas TP8

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    This document provides a target language analysis sheet for a CELTA lesson on writing postcards. It summarizes the key elements to be covered: greeting, use of the present perfect tense, use of the future "be + going" construction, and closings. It outlines methods for checking student understanding, like a Google Form, and addresses potential problems students may have with the meaning, form, and appropriateness of these postcard elements. Pronunciation is noted as not applicable for a writing lesson. Sources for further reference are also included.

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    IH UNIVERSITY PROGRAMMES - CELTA

    TARGET LANGUAGE ANALYSIS SHEET

    CANDIDATE NAME: Griffin Fraser

    TP NUMBER: 8 LESSON TYPE: Writing

    TARGET ITEM (e.g. Vocab, Marker Sentence, Functional chunk)

    Postcard Structure
    -Greetings
    -Using the present perfect
    -Using the future be + going
    -Closings

    MEANING

    Postcards, for this lesson, consist of a greeting, mentions of the recent past, plans for the future, and
    closing.

    MEANS TO CHECK UNDERSTANDING (eg CCQs, Timelines, synonyms, etc.)


    Google Form for guided discovery of the details within a postcard.
    CCQs: What details do we have in a postcard? (Greeting, past, future, closing) Why do we include
    these? (To give the reader a fuller picture of what you’re doing)

    POTENTIAL PROBLEMS & SOLUTIONS WITH MEANING


    Problem: Students confuse the order of the details on the past and future.
    Solution: Let students know that these are guidelines and not rules, however, it can be more helpful
    readers to first know about what you have already done in your area.

    FORM and APPROPRIACY (Part of speech, or grammatical breakdown)

    Present perfect - Subj. + have + past participle - used to talk about recent past events with present c
    sequences
    I’ve had a wonderful time so far.
    Future be + going - Subj. + be + going + infinitive+ specific time - used to talk about future
    I’m going to visit my friend tomorrow.

    Formal vs informal greetings and closings


    Google Form has Ss categorize formal vs informal greetings and closings

    POTENTIAL PROBLEMS & SOLUTIONS WITH FORM

    Problem: Students confuse the word “present” in “present perfect” to mean the present.
    Solution: Examine closer an example sentence and ask CCQs - “I’ve had a wonderful time so far.” -D
    he have a wonderful time in the past? (Yes) Is he still having a wonderful time? (Yes)

    PRONUNCIATION (IPA, Stress, linking, intonation)

    N/A - writing

    POTENTIAL PROBLEMS & SOLUTIONS PRONUNCIATION


    Sources and References

    tophonetics.com
    learnenglish.britishcouncil.org
    https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/grammar/british-grammar/future-be-going-to-i-am-going-to-work

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