• Optional: If trainees will be paired with higher-level learners, you may want to give the handout, Idiomatic Expressions and "The fine art of Canadian Conversation". It provides trainees with a brief overview of idiomatic expressions. It also asks the trainees to scan the article for idiomatic expressions in the first paragraph.
  
  
  • Idiomatic expressions in the first paragraph include: to land work, to count on (something)
    
    
• Briefly discuss Other Reading Strategies: Skimming and Scanning from the tutor training manual. Let tutors know that the lesson plan outline provided is not the only way to teach reading. If a learner wants to develop other skills (i.e. skimming and scanning), the tutor will need to develop the lesson plan in a way that prompts learners to read in a different manner.

A Language Lesson

25 minutes

Using one of the two languages below (either Russian or the fictional language, Arepelalese), you will teach a short lesson. As Arepelalese is not a true language, you are free to pronounce it as you see fit. The short and long vowel notation section of the chart has been left blank for to you to fill in.

Option 1: THE AREPELALESE LESSON

The activity outlined below will be used to review some of the techniques discussed last session (using cue cards and sight words) as well as a basis for trainees to understand some of the beginning level teaching techniques (such as drills and dialogues) outlined in this session.

Materials (provided and facilitator produced):

• Have handouts 1A, 2A and 3A available for the trainees.
• Make an overhead copy of handout 2A (or prepare the AREPELALESE facilitator cue cards provided).
• Collect and bring the objects (or large pictures of the objects) shown on handout 1A.
• While drills will not be discussed until the grammar portion of the session, take note of what you do during the Arepelalese lesson so you can refer back to it when discussing drills.