Wgu Public Speaking Task 1

TASK 1: PLANNING COMMENTARY
Respond to the prompts below (no more than 9 single-spaced pages, including prompts) by typing your responses within the brackets. Do not delete or alter the prompts. Pages exceeding the maximum will not be scored.
1. Central Focus
a. Describe the central focus and purpose of the content you will teach in the learning segment.
[ The central focus of the learning segment is food and beverage, and the purpose of the content is to develop students’ communicative proficiency on topic of ordering food and beverage in Chinese. The learning goal for this unit is that students should be able to initiate a conversation to order desired amounts of food as well as drink with certain size and degree of temperature after reading the menu. They will also be able to solve a complex situation by offering a reasonable solution when they are eating at a Chinese restaurant in spoken language.
In order to reach the learning goals, this unit will be divided into three lessons. The first lesson will introduce several kinds of American food and drink with matching measure words to students. …show more content…
During the learning segment, students will be required to conduct an oral survey among their peers in class, during which they will need to ask or answer questions to acquire information of Chinese or American people’s eating and drinking habits for breakfast by applying the new language forms they just learned as well as the ones they learned earlier (e.g. 蛋炒饭、热豆浆、冰牛奶). These interactions required in this task can help to promote interpersonal communication among students. There is also a role-play activity which requires students to ask or answer questions about their preferred food as well as their desired sizes and degree of temperatures of their drinks. These interactions will also require students to express their preferences by applying the new language forms (e.g.

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