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IV. АМАЛИЙ МАШҒУЛОТЛАР МАЗМУНИ 
 
LESSON 1. : MODERN APPROACHES AND INNOVATIONS TO 
DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE SKILLS 
 
Objective: to introduce and explore the concept of leaner-centred approaches 
to teaching
Activity 1 Analysing Two Activities 
Objectives: to explore a teacher-centred and a learner-centred activity 
Time: 25-30 min 
Materials: board/flipchart, marker, handout 1 
►Procedure: 
☺ (10 min) Say that you want participants to experience two activities where 
you will show different approaches to teaching. Say that you will discuss both 
of them afterwards. Follow the instructions below. 
 
Example 1 
Distribute handout 1to each participant. 
Tell them to read the first sentence in chorus. 
Read the underlined words (the teacher underlined them for pupils) and make 
participants repeat after you. Correct pronunciation. 
Tell participants to copy the underlined words into their copybooks. 
Tell them that their homework will be to make up 2 sentences with each word. 

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Example 2 
Say that participants will work with the same handout. 
Tell them to read the second paragraph individually. 
Ask pupils to write down one short sentence to summarise the meaning of the 
paragraph. 
Invite pupils to share their sentences in pairs or small groups. 
Ask participants to underline any unfamiliar words in the paragraph 
Tell them that they will have a choice of homework: 
They can work in small groups and share their unknown words and decide on 
the strategy they will use to work out the meaning of the words. 
They can write individual essays using the unknown words. 
They can think of another homework for them. 
Tell pupils that they will be evaluating each others’ homework in the next 
lesson. 
☺ (10 min) Say that now you want to analyse the activities with the whole 
group. Ask participants what differences they noticed in them. Say that one 
activity was an illustration of a teacher-centred approach and the second one - a 
learner-centred approach to teaching. Ask participants if they understood which 
is which (1 – teacher-centred, 2 – learner-centred). 
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Put a poster with questions (see handout 2) on the board and invite the 
whole group to answer the questions. Put ticks in the relevant columns. Say that 
some of the questions refer to activities that may take place beyond the class 
presented by the trainer. Ask participants what they think the answers to these 
questions may be in the context of teacher-centred and learner-centred teaching. 
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Summarise the activity by saying that very often there is an imbalance of 
responsibility in a traditional classroom. And often teachers seem to be working 
too hard. Shouldn’t pupils be more involved in teaching and learning process?