Class: TESOL for children programmeDate: 04.20.2018Assignment 1-51. Which age group would you like to teach the most and why? High School Age Development(14-17) TESOL for Children Certificate，2018，Page5I want to teach students about subjects like economics, statistics and business-related courses. The students who age at this period have already learned English for 6-10 years, which makes the verbal-based instructions and lectures easier understood by students. Teachers who would like to give lectures about more abstract concepts which requires students the higher perception and English skills. Students meet requirement with enough English reading and writing skills can take subjects like economics, history and mathematics. Describe the characteristics of your 3 most influential teachers throughout childhood.1. piano teacher Gao：She always asked me training daily and she was very serious about the weekly progress I made after the last course she had given. Keep playing piano for 8 years everyday influences me a lot. Gao was not a teacher with mild personality, and she was always demanding in my memory.2. Host training teacher Wei: He is the most talented teacher I had ever met. He did not talk concepts much during our one-to-one course. I recited the poem over and over, and he gave feedback about every word and tone. We concentrated on the feedback and made adjustments on one piece of poem again and again. He told me if I want to get the China Teenager Host Award I just needed to mimic his version of recite. There was rules for appreciation of speech sounds, but it was unnecessary to understand. To learn pronunciation, the only thing you need is trying your best to mimic.3. Math teacher Zhou when I was in primary school：I did not perform pretty well in academics after I transferred to another school when I was 10. Mrs. Zhou was my math teacher in the new school，she always encouraged me and thought I was a talented student on math. I then to start to have a faith in me that I actually could be excel at studying. This faith rooted in me during my whole student periodI then really became good at math and I even chose Finance as my college major.What are the acronyms for TESOL，SLA，L1 and L2? TESOL: Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages SLA: the second language acquisition L1: native tongue（first language） L2: a new/second language TESOL for Children Certificate，2018，Page42. What is “telegraphic speech”?According to linguistics and psychology， Telegraphic Speech is the speech during the two-word stage of language acquisition in children. It has the feature of concise, direct and precise.3. Name five different type of gross motor skills not mentioned in the text.Do the same for fine motor skills. gross motor: throwing, catching, kicking, squating, waggling arms, jumping, running, walking fine motor: shaking hands, blinking, twisting, nodding, shaking heads, fingers posture, stamping feet, shrugging shoulder4. Which type of music and movies would you like to introduce to children of other cultures? Why?I would introduce the cartoon movies and folk music to children. The cartoons are with positive attitude and value, which is good for shaping the value of kids. The folk music are made with simple words and contains the native culture, which is good for children to learn the culture and memory the L2 words.5. Name and describe one exercise that can be utilized for learning English involving Science，Math, and Social Studies separately.( The answer should contain three different exercise. Science：running is a good exercise for students to learn the relationship among distance, time used and the speed. The formula among these three factors could be abstract for students in class, let them run in different speed within the same distance and record the data is a good way to learn(physics). Math：table tennis can be utilized for learning English and geometry. If you want to get score, you need to calculate the relationship between the ball you want to strike and the white ball. Students need to speak out the color and the angle after he/she strikes the ball. Social Studies：playing soccer can be really good exercise for social studies，as this sport has changing rules in different countries and period of history. Moreover, students could learn vocabularies about the verb when playing soccer and interact with team members, which involves in many knowledge about team management and teamwork cooperation.Assignment 6-86. Name 10 vocabulary words that you think are appropriate for each of the language development stages. (How would you introduce them to the student for learning?)l Early Childhood Development (age 5)Vocabulary: I，me，her，she，he，him（subject）| eat，drink，play，like，do（verb）I would Explain these words use body languages, such as pointing out myself and speak out the word”I”and “me”， then use “like” to form senten