A FLIPPED LESSON!

 AN ENDURED BURDEN

“Hot topic, hot topic! Come and get your hot topic!”

FIRST DIGITAL WORKSHEET

GOT A LOT TO SAY ABOUT THIS ONE

Greetings; lads! Today I am back with an interesting activity I’ve prepared with my friends (Mert and Ozan), and that is a digital worksheet. Now, let’s talk about what we’ve been through, aye?

                       

For this task, we were asked to prepare a lesson plan following the ASSURE model by paying close attention to its components and sub-components, and also a digital worksheet activity with direct use of a corpus. Me and my friends tried our best to follow the 4 key principles (test student knowledge, hands-on corpus searches by students, inductive discovery by students, and output exercise) proposed by Ma et al. (2021) for corpus utilization, to integrate this technology into our design (the link could be found below). While we were preparing this task, we’ve been through several problems, but the only one worthy of mentioning is when we were choosing our topic. We first decided to teach about “could” and “would” but later realised that it was not part of the theme we chose (School Life). So, we went to the contents section and found out about which grammatical items were taught in each theme and reached a consensus on teaching “must” and “have to.” However, I would be lying if I were to say I didn’t enjoy the process; I really did. It was nice to be free in our choice of layer and what to include. I guess worksheets are one way to compensate for the strictness of our profession. Nonetheless, there is one thing I am quite concerned about if our activity were to be implemented in a class, and it is the corpus activity. Although we chose CorpusMate to facilitate the activity for its user-friendly interface and simple functionality, it is hard to find appropriate sentences to grasp the topic. This may lead the teacher to spend more time on this part and therefore have limited time for the remaining exercises.

SO LONG 😊

Our Digital Worksheet

Our Lesson Plan

!AN UPDATE!

Sorry for the late reminder, lads, but some parts've been changed in our worksheet and also in our lesson plan. For the former one we've added a section to introduce what a corpus is, switched the corpus we used to SKELL from CorpusMate, enumerated the exercises for ease of organization, changed the colors of the tables in two of the exercises, and determined specific sentences for corpus use. Lastly, you can access the new version of our lesson plan through the link below. 

The New Lesson Plan