Presentation of E-portfolio

Gyngyi Cseh
MA English teacher

Personal aims
deepen my experience of teaching English feeling of improvement broaden literary, linguistic and

cultural knowledge go into methodolgy deeper

Aims and needs of language learning

Nowadays, language learning has become more important than ever.
language exam(s) worth plus points in higher education language exam(s) to state examination speaking language(s) to apply for a job

Tasks of language teachers

choose teaching strategies and techniques evaluate and select materials and tools provide good atmosphere motivate students encourage Ss to take part in activities teach how to deal with students with different abilities and/or learning difficulties assess and evaluate

Teaching experience
Practice School of Eszterhzy Kroly College (Enterprise) Zay Anna Medical Secondary School,
Nyregyhza

(New Opportunities)

Developing skills Speaking Listening Reading Writing

Goal: develop general and communicative competences (discourse, linguistic, strategic and sociolinguistic competences)

Developing speaking skills

Activities: role-play picture description information gap activites discussion conversation

 Class: 12A Level: Intermediate Topic: At the post office, job interview Aims: prepare for school-leaving exam, practice situations, improve speaking skill, check certain words in connection with the situations Anticipated problems: difficulty in speaking and with certain words in connection with the theme of jobs and post office

 Students work in pairs Mixed situation sentences of the interviewer and the applicant /postman and customer Order the situation Role-play activities

 Class: 11B Level: Elementary Topic: practice of will / to be going to

Fortune-teller game

 Class: 12A Level: Intermediate Topic: Home and housework, School Aims: prepare for school-leaving exam, improve speaking skill, check certain words in connection with the topics Anticipated problems: difficulty in speaking and with certain words

 Students describe pictures

 Choose questions, prepare and answer

What kind of furniture is there in your living room? What housework do you do at home? Describe your bathroom. Compare living in a house to living in a flat How do you share activities in your family? Describe your living room.

 Class: 10E Level: Elementary Topic: Summary of Unit 5-6. Aim: practice of telling the time

 Class: 10 A Level: Elementary Topic: Computers Aims: practice of listening, enrich vocabulary, improve listening, speaking and writing skills

Discussion: Advantages and disadvantages of computers

Developing listening skills

Activities: coursebook listening activities use of lyrics of songs use of videos from www.youtube.com

 Class: 10C Level: Beginner Aim: practice of Past Simple Tense

 Class: 10A Level: Elementary Topic: Computers Aim: practice of listening,enrich vocabulary,
improve listening, speaking and writing skills
1.) Find the page www.youtube.com (Learn English 70 Computers) 2.) Watch the video and answer the questions (What is spam? What is internet?, etc. ) 3.) Order the steps as Jane tells her friend how to find something on the Internet

Developing reading skills

for skimming, scanning, reading for - general understanding - detailed comprehension - specific information Activities: coursebook reading activities use of the Internet to search for information

12 Level: Intermediate Topic: Money Aims: enrich vocabulary

Task: Collect 10 idioms, phrases or sayings in connection with the theme of money: http://www.esl.about.com http://www.best-quotes-poems.com http://www.learn-english-today.com http://www.5minuteenglish.com

Class:

Developing writing skills

Activities: E-mail writing Compostion (with guided questions) Story writing Description of animals

 Class: 10A Level: Elementary Topic: Computers Aim: enrich vocabulary,improve writing skills

 Class: 10C Level: Beginner Aim: practice past simple tense, certain prepositions of movement, certain adjectives and adverbs, certain linking words

 Class: 10E Level: Elementary Aim: description of animals

Grammatical competence
presentation of new grammatical items through examples practice of new grammatical items in context production of new grammatical items in context
comparison Simple Past Tense Present Perfect Simple Tense will / be going to prepositions adverbs of frequency linking words

Comparison
Presentation: Description of two places: Stratford and Los Angeles comparison with given adjectives - discovering the rule through sample sentences Practice: Comparison of two places: Stratford and Los Angeles with given adjectives Production: Comparison Budapest to Eger

Present Perfect Simple Tense

Practice:

Word order

Practice of will and be going to

Presentation: - Ss match the rules and sample sentences (Projector) Practice: - write sentences about a picture (be going to) - match the problems and offers (will) Production: Ss complete the dialogues with be going to, will, wont

Materials, tools and resources

Published materials Coursebooks, CDs Teacher produced materials Handouts Power Point presentations Computers Websites Videos Songs Pictures On-line dictionaries

Classroom management
individual pair

work

work: role-plays, information gap activities, interviews, etc. work: story writing

group

Assessment and evaluation

give the teacher information about where the students are give students information about what they know positive evaluation motivate students self-assessment

Tests Grades

Grammar test
Passive and active sentences

1.) Sentence correction 2.) Write active sentences into passive 3.) Complete the sentences with the correct form of the passive

Self-evaluation
Professional skills - teaching work
- I always prepare for my lessons and for classroom activities carefully. - I use variable evaluation tools. - I regularly use audio-visual aids in my lessons. - I take care for students who have difficulties in their studies. - I often produce materials. - I establish learning conditions where students can express their own ideas and be creative.

Professional skills education

- I take care for the development of the community of my students. - I am able to handle the conflicts in the class room. - I send my students to an expert if they have problems in their studies and behaviour. - My students are disciplined during my lessons. - I always take into consideration the personality and needs of my students.

My opinion
Life-long learning Implementation of technology Tasks of modern language teacher New aspects of English language teaching My strenghts and weaknesses