IBN ZOHR UNIVERSITYM.A TEFL & ICT

ESP COURSE

Prof JENIFER JUNE EVANS YOUSSEF TAMER

SOLVING OR AVOIDING PROBLEMS

Omar Taky-EddineMustapha AboulaHassanMed Ait Madani youssefBrahim ElomariAhmed dakhissi

PRESENTATION OUTLINE:

OVERVIEW ACTIVITY ONE ACTIVITY TWO Activity Three Mini Lesson

OVERVIEW OUTLINE:

1.Absenteeism and Lateness2. Low motivation3. Mixed status class4. Mixed Level class 5. Unexpected students and

Unplanned changes6. Bad Feedback7. Lack of expertise

1. ABSENTEEISM AND LATENESS

Course progress slows down

Lesson plans need to be adjusted

Affect badly punctual students

A. FORMAL SYSTEM

Only when SS are present, the teacher can motivate them and enhance their autonomy

Makes unpunctual SS reprioritize the importance of the course

There should be norms for monitoring attendance, any student who exceeds the limited number of approved absences can no longer attend the course

B. INFORMAL APPROACH

Remind the whole class of the course objectives and highlight how every particular lesson fits into the overall program

Make a good joke about it, when SS come in late or after class

Ask regular SS to update the absentee / latecomer

Refer the absentee/latecomer to the work completed by regular SS

2 .LOW MOTIVATION

LOW MOTIVATION AFFECTS BADLY THE COURSE

disruptive attendance poor results difficult teaching / learning

program

failure

present yourself professionally

be systematic in dealing with irregular attendance

tune into your SS make good use of time vary teaching materials and approaches

3. MIXED STATUS CLASS involve low status SS by eliciting

more responses from them and being supportive towards them (high status SS can assert themselves)

assign “ridiculous” roles for high class status SS

accommodate SS’ different needs: assign different self-study books for homework to each status

encourage discussion between different status SS

make tasks open-ended

4. MIXED LEVEL CLASS

get SS with extensive work experience to explain real-life lge problems to other SS

get SS to share their skills by changing the groups

get SS to edit each other’s work without highlighting the authorship

5. UNEXPECTED SS AND UNPLANNED CHANGES

COPE WITH THE SITUATION AND CONTINUE TO APPEAR PROFESSIONAL:

Prepare contingency plansHave some teaching ideas up your sleeve which require no preparation or material

Keep necessary tools within your reach

6. BAD FEEDBACK

don’t get demoralized, take feedback professionally

regard the feedback as helpful

feedback shows what your SS dis/like

re-examine priorities

7 .LACK OF EXPERTISE

Business SS know a lot about their specialty before coming to class. For teachers, lack of expertise may affect their strategies for dealing with specific situations.

Get a student who raised a subject to expand, and invite other SS to do the same

ask SS if they can find out relevant information before next class

keep up to-date (book fairs, conferences, TV news, newspapers….)

ACTIVITY ONE

DIRECTIONS:

Students are to form 3 groups . Each group represents a company.

THE FIRST STEP:

Students invent a name for the company and its specialty. Then elect a president and a spokesman for the company.

THE SECOND STEP:

Your company is helding a meeting to discuss the possibility of setting up a new branch in another location:

The spokesman introduces the company.

The president opens the discussion about the new project.

The staff provide their suggestions discussing the following points:

• The appropriate locations.• The advantages and potential

obstacles.

Activity two

PROBLEM 1

A man who works on the 20th floor goes up to the 18th floor in the elevator almost every morning, then walks the last two floors. And when he wants to descend he uses the elevator.

SOLUTION He’s rather short so he can’t reach the button for the 20th floor in the elevator. When someone tall gets into the lift the man asks him or her to press the button for the 20th floor

PROBLEM 2

A boss of a company invited a manager of another company to attend dinner. The manager informed the boss that he would come with his daughter. The boss invited also another manager who informed him that he would come with his wife. The boss provided the guests with four dishes. When they finished eating, the boss discovered that one dish was not touched.

Why it was not touched?

SOLUTION

The daughter of the first manager is the wife of the second manager. In other words, they are three; two men and one woman.

PROBLEM 3

A farmer is standing on one side of the river and with him are a wolf, a goat and a box with cabbages. In the river there is a small boat. The farmer wants to cross the river with all the three items who are with him. There are no bridges and in the boat there is only room for the farmer and one item. But if he leaves the goat with the cabbages alone on one side of the river the goat will eat the cabbages. If he leaves the wolf and the goat on one side the wolf will eat the goat. Only the farmer can seperate the wolf from the goat and the goat from the cabbage.

What can he do to cross the river without losing any of his properties ?

SOLUTION

First the farmer takes the goat across the river. He goes back to pick up the wolf. When he is across he leaves the wolf and takes back the goat. Back on the other side he leaves the goat and takes the cabbages with him. Then he picks up the goat and all three items are on the other side.

PROBLEM 4

You are lost in a forest. The forest is between two villages. In village A live only liars, they always lie. In village B people always tell the truth. You want to go to village B. Then you see a man from village A or B. You can ask him only one question.Which question will you ask him to know for sure where village B is ?

SOLUTION

Ask the man which city he lives in. He will always point to village B.

PROBLEM 5

Everything Mr Red owns is red, he lives in a red bungalow and his chairs are red, his tables are red. His ceiling, walls and floor are all red. All of his clothes are red, his shoes are red, even his carpet, television and phone are red. What colour are his stairs?

SOLUTIONHe doesn't have any stairs because he lives in a bungalow!

PROBLEM 6

These sentences are a little strange. Why?

Women understand men; few men understand women.

Bores are people that say that people are bores.

SOLUTION

They are all WORD-UNIT PALINDOMES. Word-unit palindromes relate to whole words, which form the same sentence when read in reverse as forwards.

ACTIVITY THREE

Mini Lesson

This is an amazing unusual border line runs between Netherlands and Belgium in a small town called Baarle-Nassau. And this restaurant is in both countries and as per Dutch laws restaurant has to close earlier than Belgium. Hence after the closing time in Netherlands, the people eating the restaurant have to move to the Belgian side and continue. Though I am not sure if the kitchen is also built in both the countries. Sounds interesting! Doesn’t it? Order Dutch Coffee with Gouda cheese from Netherlands and have it with Belgium chocolate!

Do you agree or disagree with the following statements? if yes/no, why?All international borders should be destroyed because they only create barriers to trading and international understanding.

The retirement age should be lowered so as to cut down unemployement.

Thank you