Design Guide

Designers for Learning - Adult Learning Zone

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Project Requirements

Part 1: Lesson Description

Lesson Title: Correct use of Past Tense

Abstract: This less will cover the correct use of past tense in the Egnlish language to faciliate comprehensive and effective communication.  Students will learn the correct conjugation of regualr and irregular verbs commonly used in conversation, and will practice the verbal and written use of these verbs.  In addition, students will develop an understanding of how these verbs can help support effective professional communication in a job interview setting. 

Learner Audience / Primary Users: English second language adults

Educational Use: Grammar instruction

Language: English

Material Type: Educational

Keywords: English; grammar; past tense; speaking; writing

Time Required for Lesson: 3 hours

Targeted Skills: English grammar and speaking, with focus on the use of past tense

Learning Objectives: Identify correct uses of past tense verbs; distinguish between correct and incorrect uses of past tense verbs; use past tense verbs correctly to develop effective and logical responses to common job interview questions

College & Career Readiness Standards (CCRS) Alignment:

Prior Knowledge: Students must have a basic knowledge of the English language; basic level communication skills are prefered

Required Resources: None

Lesson Author & License: Creative Commons

Part 2: Lesson

Instructional Strategies and Activities:

Warm-Up: Discuss previous job interview experiences, and times when it was necessary to use past tense correctly

Introduction: Explain past tense and how it is used in the English language, as well as identify some key situations when it is important and how using it incorrectly could have negative consequences

Presentation / Modeling / Demonstration: Explain correct uses of past tense and go over a variety of common verbs, both regular and irregular

Guided Practice: Present incorrect uses of past tense and have students identify the errors and correct them

Evaluation: Students split into small groups and come up with mock interviews that use past tense

Application: Present these mock interviews to the class and the instructor

Key Terms and Concepts: Past tense; effective communciation

Part 3: Supplementary Resources & References:

Supplementary Resources

References

Attribution Statements

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Project Requirements

Designers will develop open educational resources (OER) for adult basic education based on the following project requirements:

• The instructional materials you design and develop will support adult learners with low math and literacy skills seeking to acquire new knowledge and skills to pursue their life goals and career aspirations. Most of these adult learners have not completed high school, and are taking adult basic education courses as they prepare for careers, high school equivalency exams (e.g., the GED, HiSET, or TASC tests), or other adult basic education certifications.
• The contextualized instruction you design will target the knowledge and skills needed to be life, career, or college ready, and will focus on authentic contexts, problems, and tasks the learners will encounter in real life.
• You are able to select the real-world problem or task, and the associated knowledge and skills, that will be the focus of your lesson, as well as the intended learner audience and grade level.
• The instructional materials you design and develop will:

• conform to the project's Design Guide,
• be developed within Open Author on OER Commons,
• align with the College and Career Readiness Standards (CCRS) that underlie high school equivalency exams and other adult basic education programs,
• incorporate guidance for the instructor implementing the lesson,
• include all necessary content presentation, learner practice, and assessment materials for instruction on the topic and standard you have chosen.

• Instructional materials selected for use will be stored in the Adult Learning Zone group on OER Commons and licensed under a Creative Commons copyright license as free open educational resources (OER). To ensure the broadest use of your work, we request that you select a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license.
• All instructional materials you develop must be open educational resources that (a) our instructors and learners can retain, reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute without additional login or paywall, and (b) can be linked or embedded within Open Author.

This course content is offered by Designers for Learning under a CC Attribution license.
Content in this course can be considered under this license unless otherwise noted.        Page

(Design Guide effective September 12, 2016)