Lesson 1, Topic 1
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Oral Activities

December 6, 2021


Oral Activities

The EA supports the teacher with oral activities as follows:

  • Listening comprehension: Notes the learner’s ability to understand and interpret spoken texts. Reads the text on behalf of the teacher to the class and asks a series of questions to which learners would respond orally;
  • Prepared speech within the context of the project: Helps learners to undertake some form of research or investigation as a preparatory activity. Reminds learners in support of the teacher that the spoken presentation has an introduction, body and conclusion, The EA also encourages learners to use appropriate body language and assists them with supporting resources such as visual aids;
  • Unprepared speech: Although this activity suggests no preparation, supervises learners as they jot down ideas and develop an outline for the speech;
  • Reading aloud within the context of semester 1 oral: Notes learners fluency, accuracy, pronunciation, voice projection, vocabulary, reading speed, expression and other strategies for spoken presentations and informs the teacher about observations made in order for corrective measures to be implemented.
Note: The underneath activities are not in the 2021-2023 Revised ATPs due to covid-19 implications:
  • Role play: Helps to identify one or more learners who will be enacting a situation without a formal written script. Assists the teacher to communicate suggested scenarios for enacting purposes to learners;
  • Debate: Assists the teacher to divide learners into groups, identifies a chairperson as well as an opening speaker for each team who presents opening arguments. Also assists the teacher to clarify topics chosen for debates;
  • Demonstration: Supports the teacher to monitor learners as they talk the audience through a demonstration of a task that has some sequence, or set of procedures to be followed;
  • Discussion: Guides and supports learners to plan and conduct a discussion on a given topic;
  • Dramatisation: On behalf of the teacher, provides scripts to be used to role play or enact scenes/ excerpts chosen either from genres for literature study or own originally written scripts; and
  • Conversation: With the teacher, observes the free discussion in which learners share ideas and exchange points of view.
Note:
  • All the activities done by the EA should take place under the supervision of the teacher;
  • The EA is not required to teach and to mark formal assessment tasks, but to play a supportive role and be a helping hand for the teacher in the classroom.