The TEFL Academy TEFL Course (120 Hours) End of Course Assignment 1 Please read the information below before looking at the instructions for this assignment. The reputation of this qualification is dependent on our students' academic integrity. The TEFL Academy does not tolerate plagiarism, nor the use of third parties, electronically or otherwise, to produce your assignments. If you take any text or teaching ideas from elsewhere, you must provide a clear indication that you have done so and reference such items properly. Work submitted for the assignments must be your own. If you are found to have sourced your work from elsewhere, your enrolment will be cancelled without refund and you will not receive a certificate. While the lesson plans must be your own work, it is permissible for you to use grammar or vocabulary practice activities that you have found or adapted from elsewhere, providing they are properly referenced. See 'Lesson planning checklist and how this assignment will be graded' for information on how to present references. We appreciate that some students study this course with a friend, and indeed would encourage you to work in this way. However, assignments must be produced entirely independently. If we receive two assignments that are the same or share some of the same content, we will return them and ask you to submit a completely new assignment. Introduction To complete the course successfully you are required to complete two end of course assignments, which will be marked by a course assessor. On completing the Assignment 1 you'll receive a grade and feedback from the TEFL Academy. Please allow three full working days after the day you submit your assignment for your work to be graded. This means an assignment submitted on Monday will normally be returned on Friday. (However, please be aware that marking may take 4-5 working days during busy periods). When you have passed Assignment 1, you can move on to Assignment 2. What Am I Required to do for Assignment One? Submit two lesson plans and accompanying teaching materials. (Both the lesson plans count as Assignment 1 and should be submitted together. Assignment 2 is completely separate from this task). Plan two linked 50 minute lessons for the intermediate class described in the class questionnaire that you can download here. The first will be a listening lesson, using the text in the document 'listening text', and the second will be a grammar lesson on the passive form, starting with examples from the listening text. The first lesson is a listening lesson. Assume that you have a recording of this passage to play in your lesson - you would not need to read it aloud, and students would not be required to read it. The two lesson plans count as one assignment. Please submit both at the same time. Guidance - Preparing to Write your Lesson Plans Before starting this assignment you should re-read Module 1 on lesson planning. For the listening lesson use the standard procedure for reading and listening lessons, described in Modules 5 and Modules 6. You may also find it useful to look at Marina's Lesson Plan in Module 8 Before planning your the grammar lesson, re-read Module 3, section C.3 on passivisation and Module 4 on teaching grammar. Your grammar lesson should begin with some examples from the listening text, and include concept questions, drilling, controlled and freer practice. Guidance - Writing your Lesson Plans You should do the listening lesson first, so that you can link the grammar lesson to what students will have done in that lesson. Do not forget the MFP+practice formula when planning the grammar lesson. You MUST read the following two documents carefully before beginning the assignment: Listening text Notes for grammar lesson You should download these documents and save them on your local machine. You'll then be able to complete your assignment offline and check it before you submit it to your assessor. You'll also need these documents: Lesson plan templates Lesson planning checklist and how this assignment will be graded We suggest that you create a folder on your computer where you can save all the documents you need to complete this assignment. Develop your plans on the lesson plan forms provided and make sure that you have completed every section of the plan. Please put each stage of the lesson into a separate row on the table. (You can add more rows if you want more stages.) Do not forget to include the actual words you will use for instructions, grammar and vocabulary explanations and concept questions - you can put these on a separate document if you prefer, but make it clear in the lesson plan where your assessor can find them. When you have finished your lesson plans, look through the 'Lesson planning checklist' and make any necessary changes to your plans before submitting your work. When you have finished your lesson plans, look through 'Lesson planning checklist and how this assignment will be graded ' before submitting your work. Your work should demonstrate your understanding of what you have learned on this course. Your lesson plan should employ appropriate use of the techniques, procedures and teaching principles described in the modules. Both lessons should be planned for the class described. If English is not your first language, please check your language carefully. Your marker will be looking for evidence that your English is of a higher level than the students the lesson is designed for. Guidance - How to submit your work Once your documents are complete and you are ready to submit them to your assessor, return to this page, login and then select the button 'add submission' that appears at the bottom of this page. Then follow the on screen instructions to upload all of your documents. Please upload all your documents at the same time. You can upload up to 15 files, which can be word processed files, images, videos or sound files. When saving your files please save these as Word, PDFs or Power Points Markers.