Materials writer and IELTS trainer, Ho Chi Minh City
This portfolio follows one learner journey, from a Grade 4 classroom to an adult IELTS class, with three pages for each stage. The Grade 4 lesson also runs as a working classroom presentation tool.
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The Grade 4 lesson as a teacher would project it in class. I based the features on Oxford’s Classroom Presentation Tools and Cambridge’s Presentation Plus.
Works best on a laptop or an interactive whiteboard, with sound on.
One sample for each stage, three pages each. Select a page to read it at full size.
Two Student Book pages and a page of Teacher’s Notes: a market scene, listening, a chant, an information gap, a short reading and a maths link.
A Student Book page, a Workbook page and Teacher’s Notes: a local news report, too much, too many, enough, a class survey and a chart to write about.
Four sections of a 21-page session from a 26-session course, with the teacher answer key and the design of the course.
An eight-slide focus lesson with teacher notes under every slide, and a pair worksheet that puts students in the examiner’s seat.
| mango | 9 thousand dong |
| coconut | 14 thousand dong |
| eggs | 18 thousand dong |
| tomatoes | 7 thousand dong |
| noodles | 11 thousand dong |
| fish | 25 thousand dong |
| mango | 9 thousand dong |
| coconut | 14 thousand dong |
| eggs | 18 thousand dong |
| tomatoes | 7 thousand dong |
| noodles | 11 thousand dong |
| fish | 25 thousand dong |
1 The market is near my school.
2 My family buys fish and tomatoes there.
3 A mango is eight thousand dong.
4 Eggs are twenty-five thousand dong.
Now tell your friend about your market.
This is a working sample of the software a publisher ships with a coursebook, for teachers to project in class. It shows Lantern English 4, pages 58 and 59, and the Teacher’s Notes. I based the features on Oxford’s Classroom Presentation Tools and Cambridge’s Presentation Plus.
The recordings were made with Microsoft Azure’s British neural voices: Maisie as Mai, Sonia as Mrs Lan and Ryan for the word list. A finished product would use studio recordings with actors. Nothing is saved when you close the tool.