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Notes on Teaching with Study-Do

Things to remember for each Study-Do Activity:

                         • Allow time for the students to read the text on their own.

                        • Encourage them to mark unfamiliar words and then to ask classmates for help with                               words they don’t know. After allowing students to share knowledge of words, only                               “teach” the words that no one in the class is familiar with.

                        • Focus on helping students understand the text and the questions, not on helping them                          derive answers. Remember, most questions will have no one “right” answer, so use                              the activities to stimulate student thinking and language production.

                        • Help students feel comfortable using language by encouraging any level of                                           production. Even one word is “speaking English”.

                        • Take advantage of students’ strong interest in understanding instructions. They are                               listening carefully and highly motivated and these are often repeated so they learn                                 quickly. Use only English for instructions.

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Study-Do ACTIVITY for STD 8 

(based on Sem: 1 Unit: 1 Activity: 1) 

designed by Ankit Patel, Rajesh Vankar & Megha Tandel

Instructions: Study the text, then do the language task.

Study

• Here is an imaginary interview between Sunita Williams and an Interviewer. Read it carefully. 

Interviewer : Hello! Ms Sunita Williams. Welcome to

 our programme.

Sunita Williams : Hello! Nice meeting you.

Interviewer : Where do you work?

Sunita Williams : At NASA as a flight engineer.

Interviewer : Where were you born?

Sunita Williams : Ohio.

Interviewer : What is your date of birth?

Sunita Williams : 19th September, 1965.

Interviewer : Wh1ere did you get your graduation from?

Sunita Williams : I did my graduation from "Florida Institute

 of Technology."

Interviewer : Which special items did you bring with

 you in the space first time?

Sunita Williams : The Bhagwad Gita, a small idol of

 Ganesha and a letter written in Hindi by

 My father.

Interviewer : Who inspired you in your life and work?

Sunita Williams : Mahatma Gandhi.

Interviewer : What is your country of origin?

Sunita Williams : India. In fact my father Deepak Pandya is

 from Gujarat.

Do

Two characters have spoken in the interview so far. Who are they?

Find out questions from the interview. And tell, how many questions are mentioned in the interview?

Work in pair. Imagine, you are going to interview a famous personality. Frame five questions for the interview

which are not mentioned in story.

Perform your interview with your partner before the class.