H is a 48 year old Kurdish man who comes from Turkey and now lives permanently in the UK. He came to the UK with his family because of the political and social problems for Kurds in Turkey. He comes from a large family of 14 brothers and sisters who are all now separated and living all over the world. His parents are 94 and 103 and remain in Turkey. He has been in the UK with his wife and four children for 6 years.
H is not working and has been studying ESOL in order to improve his family’s life here and become more integrated into British life. He would like to get a job although he has a slight disability, with back problems and hearing difficulties, but more imminently he would like to be able to pass a driving test in order to drive a car.
I supported H in an Entry Level 1 literacy class. There were 10 learners in the class with broadly similar levels of language and literacy skills. The placement sessions included a variety of teaching and learning strategies, whole class, small group, pair work and individual tasks. The class worked on a range of speaking and listening, reading and writing activities using simple and familiar vocabulary, including describing a friend, discussing their family, reviewing vocabulary relating to the classroom and giving simple directions and instructions using a map.
My role was to clarify instructions and explain tasks where required, to facilitate and encourage his discussion with other learners and to help him achieve written tasks by helping with simple spelling, grammar and punctuation. I gave him feedback on his writing and encouragement and praise and helped him to correct errors. I also helped to stimulate discussion within the whole class by talking about my family and responding to questions posed by the learners. I was able to feedback to the class teacher how well he achieved each task and where his strengths and areas needing development were.
What are nouns?
These name things, persons, groups or qualities.
These are used instead of nouns, usually to avoid repeating the noun.
These are describing words. They tell us something about a noun.
These are doing words that express a state of action, or a state of being.
Which of these are nouns?
What are pronouns?
These name things, persons, groups or qualities.
These are used instead of nouns, usually to avoid repeating the noun.
These are doing words that express a state of action, or a state of being.
These are words that tell us how actions are done.
Which of these are pronouns?
What are adjectives?
These words tell us how actions are done. They can also tell us when or where they are done.
These are used to join single words or groups of words.
These name things, persons, groups or qualities.
These are describing words. They tell us something about the noun.
Which of these are adjectives?
What are verbs?
These are words which introduce nouns. There are different types e.g. possessive or demonstrative or definite article/indefinite article.
These are describing words that tell us something about the noun.
These words tell us how actions are done. They can also tell us when or where they are done.
These doing words express action or a state of being. They tell us what is happening.
Which of these are verbs?
What are adverbs?
These doing words express action or a state of being. They tell us what is happening in a sentence.
These are describing words. They tell us something about the noun.
These are used to join single words or groups of words.
These words tell us how actions are done. The can also tell us when or where they are done.
Which of these are adverbs?
What are conjunctions?
These are used to join single words or groups of words.
These are usually small words which go before a noun on pronoun. They often tell us something about time, place or position.
These words tell us how actions are done. The can also tell us when or where they are done.
These are words which introduce nouns. There are different types e.g. possessive or demonstrative, definite/indefinite article.
Which of these are conjunctions?
What are prepositions?
These words tell us how actions are done. The can also tell us when or where they are done.
These are words which introduce nouns. There are different types e.g. possessive or demonstrative, definite/indefinite article.
These doing words express action or a state of being. They tell us what is happening.
These are usually small words which go before a noun on pronoun. They often tell us something about time, place or position.
Which of these are prepositions?
at
of
for
between
What are determiners?
These are words which introduce nouns. There are different types e.g. possessive or demonstrative, definite/indefinite article.
These are usually small words which go before a noun on pronoun. They often tell us something about time, place or position.
These are used to join single words or groups of words.
These words tell us how actions are done. The can also tell us when or where they are done.