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Tiered
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Teaching a large multilevel class in Secondary School is demanding because of several reasons:
Tiered Task offers a different way to deal with the multilvel class; sometimes the brightest students are the ones who participate more often in the class while the less advanced students do not do it at the same level and frequency. Tiered task is an amazing option to involve everyone in the same task but, at a different level.
Tiered task takes advantage of the same lesson, text, listening, and, even writing activities in order to answer a task depending on the level of each student. In this case, students read a short tale; advanced students read the text answer the questions. Intermediate students read the text and answer the questions by choosing one of the three options. Beginner students read the text and look for the answer for each question from a scrambled list of answers.
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Tiered
task
Unit 1
Third grade
The story of my friend Daniel
My friend Daniel studied
in the same Secondary School I attended to. He was a fun boy who always was
playing jokes. He used to play in the school basketball team when he was in
first grade. We used to go out with some other friends to the movies, the beach
and soccer games. Daniel had a girlfriend, Ruby. She was a beautiful girl who
studied in another Secondary School. Daniel changed a lot after he met her.
He started to skip classes and he didn't turn in either assigments or homework.
He became very unrespectful at teachers and classmates. He was involved in fights
and once he stole an USB memory from a backpack. In less than three months he
didn't get a single good grade. His parents came to the school many times in
order to talk to the professors and the principal to help him but, everything
they did was not enough to change his bad attitude. Finally, he was expelled
from the school because he was dealing with drugs. He tried to sell drugs in
the school and, after he was expelled, he was arrested by the local police department.
Unfortunately, he spent four months in a juvenile detention center, the good
thing is that during those months he was in a rehab program. After he left the
center, although he missed a school year, he enrolled in another school where
he graduated from Secondary School.
Written by Professor Francisco Amador.
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Difficult task
Complete the sentences.
1.- Daniel and I _______ to go out with friends.
2.- Daniel ______ a playful boy.
3.- He _________ turn homework in.
4.- He changed a lot when he ________ a girl of another Secondary School.
5.- Daniel _________ in the school basketball team.
6.- He _______ change his bad attitude.
7.- Once he __________ computer equipment from a backpack.
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Intermediate level
Complete the sentences.
1.- Daniel and I _______
to go out with friends.
a. usually
b. didn't use
c. used
2.- Daniel ______ a playful
boy.
a. were
b. was
c. wasn't
3.- He _________ turn homework
in.
a. did
b. didn't
c. doesn't
4.- He changed a lot when
he ________ a girl of another Secondary School.
a. meet
b. didn't meet
c. met
5.- Daniel _________ in
the school basketball team.
a. play
b. played
c. playing
6.- He _______ change his
bad attitude.
a. didn't
b. did
c. doesn't
7.- Once he __________ computer
equipment from a backpack.
a. stole
b. steal
c. didn't steal
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Beginners
Complete the sentences.
1.- Daniel and I _______ to go out with friends.
2.- Daniel ______ a playful boy.
3.- He _________ turn homework in.
4.- He changed a lot when he ________ a girl of another Secondary School.
5.- Daniel _________ in the school basketball team.
6.- He _______ change his bad attitude.
7.- Once he __________ computer equipment from a backpack.
Answers
a. played
b. didn't
c. stole
d. didn't
e. used
f. met
g. was
