Task1, Vocabulary

The English abilities of our target students are not above the standard. Therefore, the “VOC” puzzle aims to help them build their foundation of English at the beginning of online English learning. Students could be more impressive of how to spell the words during the process of filling the blanks. It helps them memorize vocabulary so that they could establish their foundation to the further learning. While reading vocabulary descriptions students would think which word they saw before fits in with the description, this could make them realize meanings of words rather than recite them.

Before they start to play the puzzle, we would like to have them to watch videos which are used to make students learn the correct pronunciation of vocabulary and how their lips and mouths should shape while speak those words. We would ask students to repeat after the video to recite vocabulary. By listening the pronunciation and then repeat.

This task is divided into three parts. There are three pictures and each one has many blanks on it, those blanks are used to fill words in. the answer words are chosen from what they recite with videos. Below the pictures are descriptions about the answer word, students should follow the descriptions to find the correct word and fill it into the blanks.

Generally, students like our target ones would reject English more or less because they don’t understand what it is saying, let alone put them assignments. To avoid such mindsets, I design the task as a game form and use simple words to describe those answer words. Thus, our target students would not worry about the problem. Therefore, they would not reject English as they were before, and they could have a chance to learn it well.

As the advantages of this task as concerned, put the vocabulary into a puzzle is fun. They are longer just assignment but a game, it adds funs to class.
The focus on this task is mainly on how proficient to vocabulary of students. Therefore, the evaluation depends upon how speed they finish it. However, students who finish slower not means they don’t understand, it related to his reading ability. Therefore, the speed and the correctness are the key points of evaluation.