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General Cleaning Vocational English Language Training

Module 4

Module Duration: 2 hours (4:00-6:00, Thursday)

Module Description: Teach 11 vocabulary words with accompanying activities.

Module Goals:

Have students successfully sign in on their “replica timecard.”

Teach the following words:

o Bathroom

o Stairs

o Elevator

o Bathroom

o Laundry

o Window

o Table

o Chair

o Bed

o Couch/Sofa

o Door

Review the words through classroom activities

Send students home with vocabulary list and activity handouts to study

Module Materials:

Sign-in sheet

Module 4 PowerPoint

o Vocabulary slides

o Things to Clean Matching Game

o Doors v. Windows Activity

o Bedroom v. Bathroom Activity

o Final Vocabulary Matching Game

Flashcards (classroom set)

Props for hands-on activities/demonstrations

Hand out for both Matching Games

Take-home vocabulary sheet

3 cleaning videos (linked to PPT)

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Topic Content Media/Materials/Notes

Fill out

timesheet

(10 Min.)

Have students fill out their sign-in/time sheet

when they first arrive in class.

Tell them that it is like a timesheet that they

will be required to fill out for their employer.

Make sure each student has done the first

week correctly.

Show them where in the classroom they can

find the time and date (you can write it for

them on the board)

ACTIVITY: Timesheet

Introductions

(10 Min) Introduce yourself

Ask for student introductions

o Ask them to say their name, where

they’re from, and to remember one word

they learning in the past 3 days.

ACTIVITY:

Have students come to the front of

the class and introduce themselves.

Go over items

to clean

vocabulary

(15 Min)

Bed, window, door, table, chair, couch/sofa

Show the video for making the bed, cleaning the

window, and opening the door – linked on PPT.

MATERIALS: PowerPoint Module

4, with VIDEOS

DEMONSTATIONS: When teaching

each word – point to it if the item is

present in the classroom (window,

door, table, chair).

In class

matching

game

(10 min)

Create flashcards before coming that say

window, table, chair and door.

Give each student a set with tape on the back

and see if they can place the word on the object

in the classroom.

ACTIVITY: live matching game

Review Game

(10 Min) Do the PowerPoint activity titled “Review

Game”

MATERIALS: PowerPoint Module 4

HANDOUT: Review Game handout

ACTIVITY:

Review with the class the answers

and make sure they get the right

answers on their handout.

Doors and

Windows

activity

Go through the doors and windows activity

having students raise their hand and say the right

word, or to come point to the door or window,

MATERIALS: PPT Module 4

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(8 minutes) etc.

Final Vocab

PowerPoint

presentation

(10 Min)

Begin vocabulary review on the PowerPoint

o Bedroom

o Bathroom

o Stairs

o Elevator

o Laundry

MATERIALS: PowerPoint Module 4

BREAK

(10 Min) Give the class a 10 minute break

Make sure that they sign out on their timesheet

Make sure that they also sign back in.

ACTIVITY: Replica Timesheet

Flashcard

Practice

(10 Min)

Quickly review words discussed before the

break on the PPT

Hand out flashcards for students to review with.

Have the students work in groups to test each

other.

DEMONSTRATION - Show them

how to lay all of the cards down with

picture up and to turn it over and read

and say aloud the word.

Bedroom v.

Bathroom

activity

(10 Min)

Go through the activity having students raise

their hand and say the right word.

As you go through, test student by pointing to

different items in the rooms for them to name –

such as sink or bed or bathtub.

MATERIALS: Module 4 PPT

Review Game

Activity 2

(5 Min)

Do the PowerPoint activity titled “Review

Game.”

Give the students time to match on their

handout, then test their answers.

MATERIALS: PowerPoint Module 4

HANDOUT: Review Game handout

ACTIVITY:

Review with the class the answers

and make sure they get the right

answers on their handout.

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Follow up:

Report the following to Stephen or Waleed

o Any students that really struggle to understand concepts or are very slow learners.

o Anyone that detracts from the class or has a bad attitude.

o Anyone that struggles with personal hygiene.

Log your progress and notes from the day on the GoogleDoc for the person teaching the next

module.

Extra

activities

(N/A)

IF THERE’S

EXTRA

TIME

Be creative – bring in your own wrap-up

activity.

Have students act out how to use different props

from the lesson.

o Example: Tell a student to imitate

“washing the floor with the mop” or

“sweeping with the broom.”

You may decide to use flashcards at this point if

they were skipped earlier.

Finalize

“timesheets”

(10 Min)

Have students finalize their sign-in card and

collect them. They are not to go home.

ACTIVITY – Timesheet card

Next Module

Info

(2 Min)

Tell them when their next lesson is and ask them

to study their vocabulary/note sheet and

handouts each day.