Answer to Question #312025 in English for Sphesihle Zuma

Question

4.1 What pre-listening activities would you let the learners do before you play the recording?

(5)

4.2 What while-listening activities would you let the learners do? (5)

4.3 How would you integrate this listening text with speaking? (5)

4.4 How would you integrate this listening text with writing? (5)

The following two questions are not applicable to the listening text:

4.5 CAPS prescribes “Play a simple language game” to practise listening and speaking. Explain how

you would use a simple language game to let learners practise listening and speaking.(10)

4.6 Explain how you would teach the simple past tense to Grade 5 learners according to the PPP

approach.

Answer 1

4.1] Pre-listening tasks include discussion questions, true or false statements, vocabulary work, prediction tasks and brainstorming the topic.

4.2] You can use while-listening activities to reinforce a grammar point or to evaluate their grammar skills. Have learners listen to an audio (or watch a video) and ask them to identify a specific number of grammar errors. Alternatively, you can give them a list of types of grammar errors to listen for.

4.3] Because you can adapt it to your context. And most importantly students interact in a communicative. Situation as they listen and speak summary in conclusion is it possible to integrate listening.

4.4] It entails desegregation of the parts of language usually segregated into separate reading, writing, literature, and communications courses. While the incorporation of these four areas into each course comprises a first step toward integration, how the listening, speaking, reading.

4.5] Games help students to make and sustain the effort of learning. Games provide language practice in the various skills – speaking, writing, listening and reading. They encourage students to interact and communicate. They create a meaningful context for language use.

4.6] Tell students that in order to talk about the past, we need to change the verb into the past tense. Write some regular verbs on the board (watch, play, walk, talk, cook, etc.) and show students how to change into the past tense by adding 'ed'. Ask students to repeat after you and practice saying each past tense verb.