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Language focus activities
Some ideas for teaching Language Focus
lessons from the New Tieng Anh 10 & 11
You, our readers, told us that you found teaching
the Language Focus lessons from the the new Tieng Anh 10 and 11 difficult. Here are two pages
of ideas that will help you. On this page the ideas
are simpler and closer to what is in the book. On
page 16 the ideas are more communicative and
interactive. We hope you like them.
General tips
• Assign some exercises for homework and feedback
at the beginning of the next lesson.
• Some exercises can be done in the form of a 15
minute test.
• Some can be cut if there are two exercises
covering the same grammatical points.
• Assign groups different tasks and then get them to
compare with another group or get another group
to peer check the answers.
• Pronunciation can be done in other lessons. It can
be done as a warmer or you can focus on the
pronunciation of new words as they come up as a
more natural approach to pronunciation.
Make tasks easier by
breaking into simpler steps
Example 1: Exercise 3 – page 111, Tieng Anh 10
1. Make sure students understand the meaning of
the words.
2. Ask them which verbs go into which spaces.
3. Ask them to put verbs into correct forms.
Example 2: Exercise 3- page 131, Tieng Anh 10
1. Ask students to look at the answers and say the
question word for each sentence.
2. Elicit feedback.
3. Ask them to think about the tense of each
sentence.
4. Elicit feedback and ask them to write the full questions.
An inductive
approach
Example: Exercise 1 - page 64, Tieng Anh 11
1. Ask students to look at the model sentence
- “Keep quiet,” the teacher said to us.
- The teacher told us to keep quiet.
2. Do question 1 with them as a demonstration.
3. Then ask them to do the same with the rest.
4. When they have finished provide them with the
correct answers.
5. Finally, get them to have a look at the correct
sentences and tell you the grammar rules of
reported speech.
NB: We are often only reminding students or revising
grammar, so this approach is often very useful!
Tasks for different groups
Example: Exercise 2- page 65, Tieng Anh 11
1. Divide the class into groups of 4.
2. Give each group 4 direct sentences and 4
reporting verbs (taken from the text book).
3. Ask them to match the sentences with the
verbs.
4. Feed back to the whole class.
5. Ask each group to write sentences in speech
for their 4 sentences.
6. Feed back.
7. Ask groups to swap their direct sentences.
8. Ask each group to read out their direct
sentences. Other groups have to read out the
corresponding sentences in reported speech.
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