Cambridge English YLE Tests; Glorious Performance of PakTurk Young Learners.
After getting teh status of Cambridge English Assessment Approved Centre, PakTurk International Schools and Colleges, offered a chance to its students to take world-famous Cambridge English YLE Exams.The results showed 100 percent success of the students with an average score of around 90 percent. More than 25 percent students got full bands.
Pakistan's First and "Only" Oxford Quality Schools
PakTurk International Schools and Colleges are awarded the status of Oxford Quality School.
PakTurk Won Gold Medal in Teaching Knowledge Competitions
Congratulations to Head Department of English, Mr. Suhail Aziz for winning Gold Medal in 1st International Teaching Knowledge Competition.
English Department Professional Development Workshop
A week full of learning, sharing and fun is going to start on March 17 2013. It is time for English Department intensive refresher workshops which will be held at Karachi and Islamabad on March 17-23, 2013 "
PAKTURK KARACHI CLIFTON BOYS CAMPUS CELEBRATED ENGLISH WEEK
English week was celebrated at PakTurk Boys Campus Clifton Karachi from Aug 26, 2013 to Sep 02, 2013. All the students participated with spirit and enthusiasm.
PakTurk Teachers' Success in International Teaching Contest
This year, teachers from PakTurk showed their expertise and got one gold, two silvers, one bronze, one honourable mention and one special prize.
English Week at PakTurk Quetta
A week full of learning, sharing and fun was celebrated at PakTurk Quetta Boys Branch. Many fun filled activities made this week memorable for the students
Sunday, March 29, 2015
Teacher Development Workshop at PakTurk Islamabad
Saturday, December 6, 2014
PakTurk Student Shines in Essay Writing Contest
Recently our students participated in an essay writing contest organized by University of Engineering and Technology Lahore, where more than one thousand entries were received. The topic of the contest was “If there was no fuel then.”
Sehar Tariq , a student from PakTurk Lahore Asifa-Irfan Girls Branch participated in the competition and brought pride to PakTurk by securing 2nd position among 1000 + participants.
The institute awarded her with plaque and certificate along with special gifts while the Principal PakTurk Asifa Irfan Girls Campus awarded the student with certificate and cash prize which undoubtedly motivated the student for further efforts in future.
Thursday, December 4, 2014
CAMBRIDGE YLE and KET EXAMS STARTING IN FEBRUARY
Tests
Cambridge YLE Starters For Class 1 & 2
• understand books, television, films, songs, the internet and other media in English
• make friends around the world
• travel the world
• study at university or college, either at home or in another country
These exams will be conducted in February and March 2015. Exact dates will be conveyed later.
You may visit our English Department website for preparation material and previous exam results: www.english.pakturk.edu.pk
Thursday, August 28, 2014
PakTurk Students Showed Excellent Performance in Cambridge KET
Saturday, June 21, 2014
Cambridge YLE Results; Glorious Performance of PakTurk Young Learners
After getting teh status of Cambridge English Assessment Approved Centre, PakTurk International Schools & Colleges, offered a chance to its students to take world-famous Cambridge English YLE Exams. The tests were conducted at Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi and Peshawar. More than 170 students from grade 1 to 5 took the tests in the first stage.
The results showed 100 percent success of the students with an average score of around 90%. More than 25 percent students got full bands.
For this brilliant success, Director Education PakTurk Mr. Kamil Ture, Dy Director Education (Junior Section) Mr. Ahmet Kester and Head of English Department Mr. Suhail Aziz congratulated the students, their parents and teachers for this wonderful performance. Mr. Kamil said that the success showed the quality of English Language Teaching at our schools.
PakTurk Shines at 2nd International Teaching Contest
- In Turkish language teaching category, Mr. Erdogan Hozan of PakTurk Peshawar got worldwide 1st place. He received a Gold Medal and cash prize of USD 2000.
- In Class teacher category, Ms. Sadia Naseem of PakTurk Lahore Islampura got worldwide 2nd place. She received a Silver Medal and cash prize of USD 1500.
- In Pre-School teacher category, Ms. Farahhoon Qureshi of PakTurk Jamshoro got worldwide 2nd place. She received a Silver Medal and cash prize of USD 1500.
- In Chemistry teaching category, Mr. Mustafa Yilmaz, got worldwide 3rd place. He received a Bronze Medal and cash prize of USD 1000.
- In English Language teaching category, last year’s Gold Medalist, Mr. Suhail Aziz got worldwide 4th Place. He received honourable mention and cash prize of USD 500.
- Mr. Israr Ali, was given special prize as the most senior teacher among all the participants across the world.
The Chairman Mr. Unal Tosur, Director Education Mr. Kamil TURE and directors of PakTurk International Educational Foundation congratulated our successful teachers, for their worldwide success, and other participants for their performance and expressed hope that the teachers will continue working with same devotion and dedication.
We hope that this success will encourage other teachers to work even harder for the next year's competition.
Thursday, June 19, 2014
Spelling Bee Contest at PakTurk Khairpur
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Effective Lesson Planning
Subsidiary aims
Personal aims
Materials
Anticipated problems and solutions
Timing
Stage aims
Activities
Focus
Timing
Your lesson has a fixed length and so you’ll need to think about the timing of each activity. This helps you to know that you have planned a long enough lesson, and during the lesson itself will serve as a self-check to make sure you achieve what you want to achieve. If you find that you haven’t planned enough material, make sure any new activities you add contribute to your lesson aim – avoid the temptation to crow-bar in activities that don’t really fit. You could also go back and think about the activities you already have – could you expand on them or change them in any way?
These are the aims of the individual stages of your lesson, as opposed to the main aim of the lesson as a whole. There should be a logical progressions here towards achieving the main aim. Stage aims should answer the question “Why am I doing this?” rather than “What am I doing?” – the answer to this second question comes in the next column.
Activity
This is what you actually do at each stage of the lesson. Be specific here. Instead of “Look at and discuss pictures”, break it down and say exactly how you’re going to do this: “Students look at photos of children doing things; Students discuss in pairs whether or not they did these things in the past and whether or not they do them now”. Being this specific will help keep you on track and ensure that you don’t forget a crucial part of an activity.
Focus
This tells you whether the activity is pair-work (S-S), group work (S-S-S), a teacher-led activity (during the presentation stage, for example – T-Ss) and so on. This can show you whether or not you have a range of different activity types – is your lesson too teacher-centered? Is every activity pair work? Have you mixed up the groups for different activities?
Main aim
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To develop students’ ability to talk about past habits
using “used to” in the context of childhood and addictions.
How will I know if this aim has been achieved?
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Students will, during the less restricted practice
stage, use the target language with sufficient accuracy for their partner to
understand their past habits.
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Subsidiary aims
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To develop students’ ability to listen for the main
ideas in a text.
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To improve students’ ability to talk about the topic of
addictions by introducing an “addiction” lexical set.
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Personal aims
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Give students more time to discuss in pairs after a
listening activity before feedback.
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Materials
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Realia – chocolate, cigarettes, coffee, a PC
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Pictures or short video clips of children playing on
swings, dressing up for Halloween, studying at school.
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Listening CD and photocopies of tapescript from Language To Go Intermediate (Longman, 2002)
lesson 11.
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Photocopies of handout for each student.
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Anticipated
problems and solutions
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Problem: Students may be unable to think of three things
they did as a child but don’t do now on the spur of the moment.
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Solution: Provide prompts and examples if necessary.
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Problem: Students will not be familiar with “to give
up”, to quit”, “to cut down on” in the listening text.
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Solution: Elicit these items in the context of
addictions.
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Problem: Students will be unfamiliar with the
pronunciation of “used to” – /juːstə/
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Solutuon: Drill in affirmative, negative and question
forms
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Timing
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Aims
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Activity
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Focus
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8 mins
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Lead in
to set the
context for the lesson and generate interest
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Ss look at photos of children doing things
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Ss discuss whether or not they did these things in the
past and whether or not they do them now
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Ss write three things they did as a child but don’t do
now and give them to T
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S-S-S
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7 mins
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Lexis
to introduce
vocabulary for listening stage
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Ss look at coffee, cigarettes, chocolate and a PC
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Ss discuss whether or not they use these things, how
often, and whether they can stop
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T elicits addict, addicted, addiction, to quit, to give
up, to cut down on, willpower
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S-S
S-S
T-Ss
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10 mins
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Listening
to practise
listening for gist
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Ss listen to four people describing their addictions:
Does the person have the same addiction as you? If not, what are they
addicted to; Have they given up?
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Feedback on board
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S
Ss-T
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12 mins
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Presentation
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to introduce target language
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to manipulate form
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to provide restricted practice in using target language
and standardise pronunciation
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T elicits target language:
- Did he smoke in the past? Yes - Once or many times? Many times - Does he smoke now? No “He used to smoke”
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T repeats with other examples and elicits negative and
question
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T drills target language
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Ss-T
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10 mins
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Less restricted
practice
to give students
restricted practise in using target language
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T writes on board one thing that each student used to do
as a child
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Ss circulate, asking each other questions to find out
who used to do what
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Feedback
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T-Ss
S-S-S
Ss-T
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3 mins
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Less resticted
written practice
to provide a
written record of the target language
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Sts write 2
sentences about themselves and two about other sts using target language
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S
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10 mins
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Authentic
practice
to give students
authentic practice in using target language
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T gives handout with prompts – last house, last job,
appearance 10 years ago
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Ss circulate and ask and answer questions based on
prompts
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S-S-S
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This lesson follows a typical PPP (Presentation, Practice, Production) model. With this model we first present or elicit the language in some way. The students then practise it in more or less controlled situations and finally produce it in a more authentic situation. Have a look below for more about these practice and production stages.
Lead in
A lead in activity is designed to “warm the students up” – to generate interest and get them thinking about the topic. When you introduce a topic, for example with pictures, a video or some questions, you activate in your students minds a mental image or expectation based on their existing knowledge of the topic. This mental image is often called a schema, and so we can say that the aim of a lead-in stage is to “activate your students’ schemata”. Your students’ existing knowledge and experience can then be used to personalise the lesson.
Target language
The aim of the presentation stage is to present or elicit the target language – the language that we want the students to be able to use correctly in order to achieve the aim of our lesson. There are different ways to do this – in this case the teacher elicits the meaning of the target language with a series of concept questions before giving the target sentence itself.
By this we mean that the teacher presents (or elicits) the question and negative forms of the target language, as well as, perhaps, other examples in the first, second or third person.
Restricted / controlled practice
The first practice stage, where the teacher drills the pronunciation of the target language, is very restricted, in the sense that students focus entirely on the sentence containing the target language. There is no opportunity at this stage to incorporate other language. The practice stage of PPP lessons tends to start with restricted practice in this way, and then gradually move on to less restricted and eventually much more authentic practice.
Authentic / Free / Fluency practice
Finally, the students are given the opportunity to produce the target language in a much freer context. The activity in this lesson encourages them to talk about the past, and they may naturally use the target language during their conversations, but they are also free to use other language. There shouldn’t be any pressure on the students at this stage to use the target language, and you may find that they don’t use it very much at all. This is why we can call this stage authentic practice – in an authentic situation we wouldn’t use “used to” in every sentence when communicating with someone – we would maybe use it once or twice in addition to other forms.
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