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1、What do the acronyms TESOL, SLA, L1 and L2 stand for?TESOL is an acronym which stands for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Language.SLA means Second Language Acquisition.L1 stands for the first language.L2 stands for the second language.Short Writing Assignment: What is an Ice-BreakerActivity?

2、Define 2 Types of Ice-Breakers.Short Writing Assignment:What is an Ice-breaker Activity?Describe what an ice-breaker activity is. when it should be used, and why it is useful to your students.Icebreakers are discussion questions or activities used to help participats relax and ease into a group meet

3、ing or learning situation. Icebreakers will make learners relax and get into the environment quickly. It is very useful to students.There are two types of Icebreakers: Facilitating Introductions: Are used to help participants ease into training and helps the participants to learn each others names a

4、nd information .Topic Lead-ins: Are used to identify needs and goals, share information and resources, and/or surface resistance.Design an Ice-Breaker ActivityCreate an original icebreaker activity, or choose one from the reading or video assignment.Outline the steps to the activity, describe why yo

5、u like this activity, and indicate what you think are the benefits of this activity for your students.In first class. Id like to make students sit around with me. We can plan My name is. Game to make others briiefly know you. Id like to state my name and attach an adjective that not only describes a

6、 dominant characteristic, but also starts with the same letter of my name. For example, generous Grace. Ans studnets should think out their name and introduce their names in my way. Then I can ask some studnets about what is the name of the person I pointed. In this way. everyone will learn each oth

7、er quilckly and can be easy to remember their names. Students will be active to think and get into the learning environment quikly. Students will be not embrassed and feel relaxed in first class.Name and describe the four fundamental properties of spoken languageThere are four fundamental properties

8、 of spoken language.1. The Phonological System. It is where about 30 or 40 phonemes out of several hundred are utilized in a certain language.2. The Stress System. It is the means by which lexical stress is located and fixed within an utterance. It can find itself in bounded or syllable-timed langua

9、ges like Spanish or Japanese and unbounded or stress-timed languages like Arabic and English.3. Tone Melodies. They are the variations in high. low. rising and falling tones that are particular to a language, and which indicate their lexical or discourse nature.4. Phonotactic Rules. The rules involv

10、e sound patterns that a language permits to make up syllables : whether such syllables can begin or end with vowels or consonants depend on the variations of sound required.Name and describe the eight parts of speechEight Parts of Speech verbs, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, con

11、junctions and interjectionsVerbs: words used to express action.condition. or a state of being.Nous: are words that name a person, place .thing or idea.Pronouns are words used in place of nouns to shorten a repeated noun that has already been mentioned. The noun that the pronoun replaces is called th

12、e antecedent of the pronoun.Adjectives are very useful words. They add information to sentences by telling us more about nouns and pronouns, usually by describing, identifying, or quantifying those words.An adverb is defined as a word that gives more information about a verb, adjective or other adve

13、rbs.A preposition is a word, which shows relationships between other words in the sentence. Relationships between words can be in the form of time or space. She went to the mall again.A conjunction is a word that connects words, or groups of words, to tell something about the relationship between th

14、ese words. In the sentence she and I are friends, and connects two pronouns, she and I. Coordinating conjunctions are conjunctions, which connect two equal parts of a sentence.An interjection is a word, or a short phrase used to express emotion or surprise. Interjections are often sentence fragments

15、, or stand by themselves.Describe and explain qualities of an effective teacher. What teaching roles/styles do you identify with? Why?Qualities can be an ADAPTOR, a VISIONARY, a COLLABORATOR, a RISK TAKER, a LEARNER, a COMMUNICATOR, a MODEL, a MOTIVATOR, a PLANNER, or a LEADER.As an ADAPTOR, we need

16、 to adapt curriculum, technology, software, resources, and adapt ourselves in order to always to meet the needs of the students. As a VISIONARY, we need to foresee student needs, future trends, future problems, future opportunies and technological advancements. As a COLLABORATOR, we must collaborate with our peers and our students in the classroom at a distance generously. As a RISK TAKER, we need to make mistakes,