CELTA TP Grammar Language Analysis

Teacher: Careemah Choong Class level: Elementary Date: 12th July 2014 TP No. Assignment 1 Structure: Present Continuous

What is the context for your target language? What are your marker sentences?

I will start with asking the time. T will show a video clip that shows a female tennis player from Asia, Nicole Davids playing tennis and pause
it the video.

What's the meaning/use? How will you clarify/check it?

Is she playing tennis?

An action that happens at the time of speaking Did she stop playing tennis?
An action that has not finished. Is it a long or short action?
It is a past, present or future action?

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Past Present (Now) Future

8 am 11am
What's the form? How will you clarify/check it?
Controlled practice to elicit marker sentence
Affirmative / Positive T will use flash card of shadow
She + ‘s + play ing + tennis

subject + V1 + verb + ing + object

Negative
She + ‘s + not + play ing + tennis

subject + V1 + not +verb + ing + object T will display the VA. S in Team A forms question and Team
Affirmative Question B forms answers.
This is followed by OCFB
Is + she play ing + tennis
Freer practice
S will mimic an action and the other S will guess what S’s
V1 +subject +verb + ing + object doing now.

Red is used for verb+ ing , blue for V1 and green the subject when presenting
Which phonological features will you highlight? How will you help your students improve in this area?

Highlight the contraction :‘re &‘s = is and as well as pronunciation area such
a playing. The Thai students may have issue with b and p.
What problems will your students have with this language?
M :The usage of present continuous with simple present and present perfect
for an activity that happened for a duration of time
F:S may be confused with some verbs which cannot be used with the
continuous form such as feeling, possession, the state or condition, opinion
and communication.
S leaves out the V1
P :S say / ʃiː/ leaving out /z/
I will highlight the contraction / ʃiːz/ syllable of play.ing and
transcript the word | ˈpleɪɪŋ |. Show the how to pronounce
How will you deal with these problems?
T can provide some difference of these by using some
sentences that was observed during freer practice.
T will have repetition drills for contraction /s/ , /m/, /re/ and
the word playing.
Drill entire sentence thoroughly while emphasizing /z/