Language Skills Related Assignment

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CELTA Language Skills Related Assignment Adrian Nicholas Crouch Word count 1,238 PASS Developing reading skills by reading for meaning and feeling Overview The ability to look back and imagine our past differently, often with regret, is innate to human nature and transcends all barriers, whether cultural or spiritual. It is often expressed in traditional folklore as well as through contemporary song and poetic prose. The poem chosen for this assignment enhances learner's understanding of both our use of language to look back into our pasts imaginatively as well as its use to convey feeling. The main aim of the lesson is to develop learner's reading skills whilst simultaneously enriching their understanding of language through poetic meaning. Its subsidiary aim is to enhance learner's perception of feeling through written narrative. Rationale for material and activities Material If only… is a poem about loss and regret and is written purely from an imaginative point of view, in so much that it is speaking of a past situation, imagined differently but impossible to change in reality. It also conveys a sense of present day feelings with regard to a past situation. As a piece of authentic material it:  Is ideally suited to L1 learners in the latter stages of their learning at this level.  Provides a receptive skills based lesson biased towards content rather than form.  Is easy to contextualize through story and imagination.  Encourages learners to read for feeling as well as meaning.  In a very simple way illustrates the past imagined differently with an impossible result without recourse to complex grammar form or rule.  Introduces learners to the language used to express present day feelings of regret, remorse and sadness about a past event or situation.  Uses simple rhyming language which
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