New Cutting Edge (AUG2009)

New Cutting Edge Training outline (by Kitty Zhang)

1. Warming-up game

Word association game

Mini Task: Health Quiz from NCE, Pre-Intermediate, Module 10

2. Discussion: features of this mini-task

- Authentic language: the nurse's accent

- Vocabulary building skill: using mini-dictionary to check unfamiliar vocabulary

- Pre-input of new vocabulary

- Vocabulary in collocations

3. Key features of NCE

- Vocabulary development

- Discovery approach to grammar / traditional grammar reference

- Tasks help students output

4. module walk-through

- background knowledge (prepare students for the target language in this unit)

- language focus 1 (vocab & grammar)

- language focus 2 (extended grammar)

- task (using the language they've just learned)

- writing (reinforce the language they've learned)

- real life (relate the language to real life)

- song (for fun)

- study (accumulate study skills)

- practice (exercises)

5. background knowledge page

- what they will do

- mini task

- vocabulary

- pronunciation