Tips for Level 5
- Ask learners to collect some customer service cards or surveys from various sources – restaurants, stores, etc.
- Discuss the different ways of collecting information
- Suggest that learners collect customer service cards or surveys from a single source such as fast food restaurants, but from competing restaurants
- Discuss any differences and/or similarities
- Ask learners to write their own survey on a topic of their choice – how students spend their free time, T.V. watching habits, and so on
| Speaking | |
| LINC 4: | request, accept or reject |
| LINC 5: | give simple informational advice |
| Reading | |
| LINC 4: | find information in formatted texts: forms, tables, schedules, directories |
| LINC 5: | identify factual details and some inferred meanings in moderately complex formatted text |
| Writing | |
| LINC 4: | fill out simple forms |
| LINC 5: | fill out forms |
Useful Quality Tools
Bar Charts
A bar chart is made up of many parts. Here are the terms you will need to know:
- Legend = the title or name of the chart In this bar graph, the legend tells us that the chart is about the number of days of rain.
- Horizontal Axis = horizontal means from side to side or from left to right In this bar graph, the horizontal axis shows us four months of the year: June, July, August, and September
- Vertical Axis = vertical means up and down The vertical axis shows us numbers. We want to make sure that we number the axis sensibly. In our bar graph, it makes sense to show It would be difficult to read the graph if the the numbers by two’s. vertical axis was written by ten’s.
- Bar = what you draw to show the different amounts