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General Cleaning Vocational English Language Training

Module 1

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

Module Description: This day includes giving a general overview of the vocational program,

administering a pre-test, and teaching 10 basic vocabulary words with

accompanying activities.

Module Goals:

To introduce the participants to the VELT program.

To assess the participants pre-course English skills with a pretest.

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

Teach the following words:

o Clean

o Dirty

o Broom

o Dust Pan

o Vacuum

o Mop

Review the words through classroom activities

Send students home with vocabulary list and activity handouts to study

Module Materials:

Pre-test

Replica timesheet

Module 1 PowerPoint

o Vocabulary slides

o Clean v. Dirty activity

o Cleaning Tools Matching Game

Flashcards (classroom set)

Props for hands-on activities

Cleaning tools matching game handout

Take-home vocabulary sheet

3 youtube videos linked in PPT

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Topic Content Media/Materials/Notes

Introductions

(10 Min) Classroom and Interpreter Orientation

o Orientate students with appropriate

interpreter

o Allow interpreter time to make an

introduction and to get to know their

students

Introduce yourself

Ask for student introductions

o Ask them to say their name, where they’re

from, how long they’ve been here and past

employment (say in English).

ACTIVITY:

Have students come to the front of

the class and introduce themselves.

Overview of

the VELT

program

(5 min.)

Overview of the VELT Training Program and its

objectives

Stephen or Waleed will do this.

Fill out

timesheet

(10 Min.)

Have students fill out their sign-in/time sheet

with the help of the translator.

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

Pre-test

(15 Min.) Explain the purpose of the pre-test. Let them

know it might be hard and they aren’t expected to

know these things already (that is the purpose of

the course!)

Administer pre-test and help as needed

Walk around and help students to understand

the questions

If students are unable to write the answer to a

given question, give them the opportunity to say

the answer to you, then you can write it for them

and give them credit.

Collect the pre-test

ACTIVITY: Pre-test

Cleaning

Overview

Video

(4 minutes)

Linked on PowerPoint

Start at 2:45, play to the end

MATERIAL: video on PPT

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Clean vs.

Dirty

PowerPoint

Presentation

(5 Min.)

Hand out vocab sheet, explain that they should

take notes.

Begin the PowerPoint instruction on Clean vs.

Dirty.

“Say the words with me.”

MATERIAL: PowerPoint Module 1,

vocab handout

Clean vs.

Dirty

Demonstration

(10 Min)

Do a hands-on activity/demonstration that

involves making a mess and tidying up in front of

the class.

PREPARE THIS ACTIVITY BEFORE CLASS

STARTS

Ask someone to come “clean the

table/board/floor.”

ACTIVITY:

Cover the whiteboard in

markings of all different

colors, take pre-ripped

pieces of paper and sprinkle

them all over the floor, lay

other props out in a mess.

Ask the students if this area

looks clean or dirty.

See if any of the students

will come clean-up the area.

If not, show them how to

make it clean by erasing the

whiteboard, sweeping the

pieces of paper into a

dustpan and organizing the

props.

Clean the

room video

(4 minutes)

OPTIONAL

Play the clean the room video (whole video)

Emphasize that the worker is making the dirty

room clean.

MATERIALS: PowerPoint Module

2 video

Clean vs.

Dirty

PowerPoint

activity

(5 Min)

Do the PowerPoint activity titled “Clean vs. Dirty

Activity”

“Raise your hand if you think it’s clean.”

MATERIALS: PowerPoint Module

1

ACTIVITY:

Use PowerPoint to go through

different slides, ask students to raise

their hand if they think it is

dirty/clean then go over the right

answer.

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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.

Cleaning

Tools

Vocabulary

PowerPoint

presentation

(10 Min)

Tell them they only have to learn four more

words today.

See if anyone can recall the first two words we

have learned.

Begin cleaning tools vocabulary review on the

PowerPoint

o Broom

o Dust Pan

o Vacuum

o Mop

MATERIALS: PowerPoint Module

DEMONSTATIONS: When

teaching each word show them how

to use the item if the prop is

available.

For example: Grab the vacuum, plug

it in, and move it around the area.

Cleaning tools

video Play from 6:45 to Office Security section

Pause the video to highlight different tools being

used.

MATERIALS: PPT video

Flashcards

CUT IF

TIME IS

SHORT

(10 Min)

Review with flashcards

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.

Cleaning

Tools

Matching

Game

(10 Min)

CUT IF

TIME IS

SHORT

Show the activity titled Cleaning Tools Matching

Game on the PowerPoint

Give them the handout and see if they remember

any of the words.

Then go over the right answers one by one asking

volunteers to come point to the right object if they

know it.

At the end, show them the slides that show the

correct matches and ask them to change their own

handout to reflect the right answers to they can

study them on their own at home.

If available give them different colored pencils to

write the correct answers with.

HANDOUT:

Cleaning tools matching

game – Day1

ACTIVITY:

Give the students the

handout and ask them to try

to match the word to the

picture on their own without

the help of the interpreter.

Extra

activities

(N/A)

IF THERE’S

EXTRA

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.”

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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.

TIME

You may decide to use flashcards at this point if

they were skipped earlier.

Module

Summary and

Questions

CUT OUT IF

TIME IS

SHORT

(5 Min)

Summarize what we have learned asking them to

follow along on their vocabulary/note handout.

Ask if there are any questions about the lesson

Finalize

“timesheets”

(10 Min)

Have students finalize their sign-in card and

collect them. They are not to go home.

ACTIVITY: Timesheet

Next Module

Info

(5 Min)

Tell them when their next lesson is and ask them

to study their vocabulary/note sheet and handouts

each day.