Transcript Past-Tense Verb Forms Ending in `ed`

Text-based Prediction Tasks
within a TBLT Framework
Glen Poupore
Department of English Studies
Université de Sherbrooke
Presentation Outline
• The TBLT Lesson Framework
• A Rationale for TBLT
• Text-based Prediction Tasks
Text #1: Newspaper Article
Text #2: Newspaper Article
Text #3: Movie Trailer
TBLT Lesson Framework:
Pre-Task
Introduction to Topic and Task
Task Cycle
Task
Planning
Report
Language Form Focus
Analyze
THREE WAY DISTINCTION
• Focus on Meaning:
occurs when learners are concerned with communication
and with producing and understanding messages
• Focus on Form:
occurs when learners are initially or have initially focused on
meaning and are now thinking about or talking about form
• Focus on Forms:
traditional grammar approach based on a syllabus of graded
structures (forms) and these are pre-taught in advance of
activities designed to practice them (-> PPP)
4 Essential Conditions
for Successful SLA
• A high level of motivation
• Exposure to lots of L2 input
• Lots of opportunities to produce the L2 for true
communicative purposes
• Opportunities and a willingness to focus on
language form
Defining ‘Task’
• A task is a motivationally engaging activity in
which learners interact and use language
freely with an emphasis on meaning in order
to achieve a clearly stated goal whose results
need to be reported orally and/or in writing.
Text-based Prediction Tasks
Using a TBLT Framework
Read/View
Parts of Text
Prediction Task
Focus on Form
using Lg in
Text
Read/View Full
Text
Text-based Prediction Task #1:
The Boy Who Came Out From the Cold
Focus on Form Activity #1:
Vocabulary
• Find six phrases in the article which
refer to the cold and/or its effects.
“Cold” Related Words / Phrases
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‘cold store’
‘temperature around freezing point’
‘with his teeth chattering’
‘his face purple with cold’
‘still freezing’
‘It was bitterly cold’
Focus on Form Activity #2:
Grammar
• Underline all the past-tense verbs ending
in ‘ed’ and divide them into two or three
categories (Types of past-tense verb
forms).
• Then find other past-tense verbs (non’ed’) from the story to add to the
appropriate lists.
Past-Tense Verb Forms Ending in ‘ed’:
Part Participle
• ‘spent the night trapped in’
• ‘after being locked in’
Past-Tense Verb Forms Ending in ‘ed’:
Simple Past
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‘immediately telephoned his parents’
‘the door locked behind me’
‘I tried to’
‘I realized’
Past-Tense Verb Forms Ending in ‘ed’:
Past Perfect
• ‘who had reported him missing’
Focus on Form Activity #3:
Grammar
• Collect students’ sheets and use their
question errors to create a focus on form
activity.
Student Error #1
• How the boy trapped?
• How did the boy get trapped?
Student Error #2
• How he escape?
• How did he escape?
Student Error #3
• What he did there?
• What did he do in there?
Focus on Form Activity #4:
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation Focus / Drill: F:P Confusion
Freezing
Food Shelf
Staff
Face purple with cold
Stratford upon Avon
Text-based Prediction Task #2:
Hello, I’ve just jumped off the Empire State Building
Focus on Form Activity #1:
Expressions of Place
• Underline all the phrases in the text that are
related to place?
• Examples: ‘in New York’, ‘off the Empire State
Building’…
• Notice the use of prepositions.
• Which preposition is most commonly used?
Focus on Form Activity #2:
Reflexive Pronouns
• There are three different uses of reflexive
pronouns in the text.
• Reflexive pronoun used as indirect object
(I gave myself a manicure) [1 example in text]
• Reflexive pronoun used as direct object
(I hurt myself.) [3 examples in text]
• Reflexive pronoun used for emphasis or
identity. [1 example in text]
Simple Activity for Reflexive Pronouns
as Indirect Object
• Fill in the blanks by using reflexive pronouns:
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I cut _____ a piece of cake.
She got _____ a drink.
They made _____ a few sandwiches.
We cooked _____ a big pizza.
You should bake _____ a loaf of bread.
Focus on Form Activity #3:
Collocations with ‘Strong’
• Which word collocates with the word ‘strong’
in the text?
• ‘Strong wind’
• What other words collocate with the word
‘strong’?
• ‘strong current’, ‘strong swimmer’, ‘strong
team’, ‘strong possibility’, ‘strong coffee/tea’,
‘strong smell’, ‘strong accent’
Text-based Prediction Task #3:
’Wicker Park’ Movie Trailer
Focus on Form Activities Using
the ‘Wicker Park’ Movie Trailer Transcript?
• Read the transcript and try to identify
vocabulary items that you would highlight to
create your own focus on form activities.
Some Possible Language Items
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… will lure him deeper.
Is this supposed to be funny?
…and so hot!
…more deceiving than the next.
You make yourself into such a victim.
…such a victim.
• Grammar? -> Categorize words ending in ‘s’