Esp vocabulary Teaching at the Vocational Secondary School of Furniture Industry

The student´s role

Not all students would receive the idea of the teacher´s role as the guides or moderators of the lessons. However, the teacher should do everything possible to lead students on the way of self-studying learning. Since students will not be familiar with all of the topics, an effort has to be focused on understanding of both: new vocabulary and new technical information. The secondary aim is to stimulate curiosity and interest about information from the branch of wood/furniture processing industry. The tasks are designed to involve the students actively in the process of gaining the new information. This corresponds with the idea of reading as an active skill in learning technical terminology. The intention is also to learn students to work with the technical texts to achieve a satisfactory level of understandig and to manage different tasks in their future careers.

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   Sample lesson plan
   

Sample lesson plan is made for Topic 4: Measuring Tools.

Lesson plan
Topic 4: Measuring Tools
Date: 12. 12. 2007 Length: 2x45´
Class: 3.C (3rd year students) Target level: Pre-intermediate (B1)
Number of students: 12 technically minded students aged 17 - 18
School/course: Vocational Secondary School of Furniture Industry
Material used: Syllabus Topic 4, whiteboard + markers, folding rule, caliper, square, tape rule, bilingual and monolingual dictionaries (e.g. Oxford Advanced Learner´s Dictionary of Current English)
Skills: reading, writing, speaking
Aims: - to present and study new technical vocabulary,

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  to introduce vocabulary in connection with pictures and realia (tapes),
  
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  to practise the pronunciation of the new words and abbreviations,
  

- to practise the new vocabulary in reading, writing and speaking activities.

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  to develop both: ESP vocabulary and knowledge of measuring tools .
  

Reasons:
Students of the vocational secondary school of furniture industry are supposed
to work with measuring tools and they should be able to speak about them as well as to understand the written or spoken texts.
Assumptions:
Ss know each other, Ss are ready to share and co-operate, Ss have some experience with measuring tools, Ss have some experience with doing practical activities in syllabus (matching, filling in the gaps and labelling the pictures), Ss are technically minded, Ss should be encouraged by the topic which is known to them, Ss´ knowledge of measuring devices and measures will be boosted through English vocabulary