Would you like to prepare for the Competitive Exam ( “Oposiciones”) for Secondary School English Language Teachers, but you don’t know how to go about it?
Have you sat the exam before and are now looking for a different approach in your preparation?
Are you looking for materials that help you understand the content for the topic essays, implement that knowledge to answer questions for the Language Exam (Práctico) and guide you to draft and design the Syllabus, Units and Learning Situations?
PoppieS offers you precisely that: The topics covered in Foundation 1 provide the “theory” that will then be implemented through the activities designed to prepare for the Language Exam (Práctico) in Foundation 2 and those that guide you to draft and plan your Teaching Programme, Units and Learning Situations in Foundation 3.
Very useful, as former students have often told us, whether this is your first time sitting the exam, or you have tried on different occasions.
The courses are designed to allow you to prepare for the exam on your own or with the help of a tutor to clarify and provide feedback on the tasks proposed in each mini-course.
Materials in the POPPIES Foundation 1-2-3
No longer on Moodle, the Contents covered are provided through a DIDACTIC GUIDE with links to the workbooks, topic contents, videos, suggested answer keys, blog posts, etc.
Again, the organisation for its delivery has changed, but in essence, it remains the same. It now consists of a set of “mini-courses”, each focusing on a topic and specific parts of the Syllabus Design or Teaching Programme, organised as follows:
Content organisation
Introductory Course.
The course aims to give you ideas and develop techniques to study the topics efficiently so that you really remember and understand, and to introduce some ICT resources you may or may not be familiar with. It consists of 2 Units, and there’s a final assignment to get to know about you and your expectations..
I-STRUCTURE.
Using topic 19.1993 as the sample topic essay, the focus on the structure of our writing for topics and summary of listenings or compositions in general, together with some translation practice, and on the structure of your syllabus design and possible units/learning situations.
II- (LANGUAGE) LEARNING. THE STUDENT.
Topic 2 on Language Learning and Acquisition Theories (PF1) serves to do some further practice on listening and Translations, with some rephrasing activities (PF2), and then the focus is on the students, with an introduction to SEND and, particularly, ADHD (PF3)
III- (LANGUAGE) TEACHING- PRINCIPLES- APPROACHES.
Topic 1.1993 (PF1) leads to some further practice with listening and translation on teaching-related issues and translation strategies and techniques (PF2), followed by principles, approaches, methods and techniques in our Syllabus (PF3).
IV- COMPETENCES-KEY, COMMUNICATIVE, SPECIFIC.
In PF1, the topic covered is 4.1993 on Communicative Competences. PF2 introduces a text for analysis related to communicative competence questions, PF3 deals with the legislation and Competences: Key, Communicative and Specific.
END OF FIRST 4 MINI-COURSES.
Mock Exam on one of the 4 topics covered and a Listening and translation Practice from a past Exam.
V- (LINGUISTIC) PHONOLOGICAL COMPETENCE. SETTING OBJECTIVES
PF1 covers the three topics on Phonology and Prosody. As you study them, you also do some phonemic transcription and translation practice in PF2, while PF3 guides you to set Objectives and Attainment Targets in line with the legislation, together with some indications on how to deal with this competence in your classes and in the syllabus. .
VI- (LINGUISTIC) LEXICAL COMPETENCE AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FIRST UNIT
PF1 covers the topic on the lexicon and Word-formation Processes. As you study this topic, you also do some listening and translation practice in PF2, together with Text Analysis that focuses mainly on the lexicon and phonological issues. PF3, for its part, goes over the reasons behind the significance of the first unit when we draft and plan the Syllabus.
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