Playing sick is a nice warm up. write an illness and a piece of advice. Illnesses and sicknesses are shuffled. Students mime or act the illness and the partner says the advice in his paper which sis most of the time irrelevant.
Students have to mingle the right illness with the right piece of advice.
Sunday, July 5, 2015
Impressive Quote
The question is not so much " How can I teach?" as it is
'' How can I help these people learn?"
'' How can I help these people learn?"
General-Spacific-General
Remember how students listen depends on why they listen.
In listening and reading we move from general to specific to general.
Listening is actively making meaning from verbal input.
Listening involves:
Peoples' mood, word stress, intonation, formality, informality, understanding, background knowledge, reason to listen, and response.
Listening also involves:
Getting clues from facial expressions and gestures.
Pronunciation
Vocabulary
Stress
Intonation
Using background knowledge about the setting and topic.
A good listening lesson:
Prepares students for the listening.
Uses a topic of interest or value to the students.
Uses pictures to activate background knowledge.
Brainstorm what students know.
Prediction through hints.
Show realia related to the topic.
Exercises may involve:
Listening for specific words auditory discrimination.
Filling out a form or a grid.
Taking notes.
Discussing personal opinion.
Having a debate.
Writing about a personal opinion related to the topic.
Doing a role play.
In order to develop their listening skills keep the PDP framework in mind.
In listening and reading we move from general to specific to general.
Listening is actively making meaning from verbal input.
Listening involves:
Peoples' mood, word stress, intonation, formality, informality, understanding, background knowledge, reason to listen, and response.
Listening also involves:
Getting clues from facial expressions and gestures.
Pronunciation
Vocabulary
Stress
Intonation
Using background knowledge about the setting and topic.
A good listening lesson:
Prepares students for the listening.
Uses a topic of interest or value to the students.
Uses pictures to activate background knowledge.
Brainstorm what students know.
Prediction through hints.
Show realia related to the topic.
Exercises may involve:
Listening for specific words auditory discrimination.
Filling out a form or a grid.
Taking notes.
Discussing personal opinion.
Having a debate.
Writing about a personal opinion related to the topic.
Doing a role play.
In order to develop their listening skills keep the PDP framework in mind.
Enhancing Reading Skills
Reading is not automatic, and students really require support in order to learn how to read effectively and acquire reading skills.
A language-rich environment forms a solid foundation on which reading skills are founded. Reading skills include: decoding, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension.
Improving one's reading skills will reduce unnecessary reading time and enable one to reading in more focused manner, increase one's level of understanding, and help one read effectively.
Scanning: reading quickly a specific part for detail. Though read quickly, it is done word for word.
Skimming: read quickly for general meaning.
Detailed Reading: Once the students got an idea about the text, they can begin to read for detail.
Underline and highlight: To pick up central ideas and vocabulary.
Record Keywords.
Answer questions of information or opinion or both.
Write summaries.
A language-rich environment forms a solid foundation on which reading skills are founded. Reading skills include: decoding, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension.
Improving one's reading skills will reduce unnecessary reading time and enable one to reading in more focused manner, increase one's level of understanding, and help one read effectively.
Scanning: reading quickly a specific part for detail. Though read quickly, it is done word for word.
Skimming: read quickly for general meaning.
Detailed Reading: Once the students got an idea about the text, they can begin to read for detail.
Underline and highlight: To pick up central ideas and vocabulary.
Record Keywords.
Answer questions of information or opinion or both.
Write summaries.
Icing on the cake activities
Icing on the cake activities are extra enhancement or additional benefit. These are activities that are done to recap, integrate the skills, access or as teaching snaps.
Friday, July 3, 2015
Running Dictation
Running dictation is an activity used to energize the students, get them out of their seats and move around. It is a way to recap vocabulary, grammar, word or sentence order, and practice listening or speaking.
Choose a short passage or dialogue and make several copies. Stick these on the walls or may be on the walls or maybe in the corridor or out of the class.
Put the students in pairs or in groups. One student runs and read the passage and comes and dictates the rest. Then they swap roles. In several turns they will build the whole passage.
The dictation can follow strictly what is in the passage or revolve around main ideas if I aim at teaching reading.
Choose a short passage or dialogue and make several copies. Stick these on the walls or may be on the walls or maybe in the corridor or out of the class.
Put the students in pairs or in groups. One student runs and read the passage and comes and dictates the rest. Then they swap roles. In several turns they will build the whole passage.
The dictation can follow strictly what is in the passage or revolve around main ideas if I aim at teaching reading.
Picture Dictation
I was introduced to a very interesting activity namely picture dictation. It is a very interesting exercise that can be used as a warm up or as a teaching snap. It is suitable to all classes especially large classes. It is suitable for youngsters and teen students.
You may need to model or draw on the board to give the students an idea about what they are going to do.
Make sure you give students time to draw what you dictate before you move to the other step.
Students may color after class as an extension activity.
You can give students a list of objects to draw from to add up an element of creativity.
Students can swap the papers and compare their pictures. This adds up a speaking element.
You may need to model or draw on the board to give the students an idea about what they are going to do.
Make sure you give students time to draw what you dictate before you move to the other step.
Students may color after class as an extension activity.
You can give students a list of objects to draw from to add up an element of creativity.
Students can swap the papers and compare their pictures. This adds up a speaking element.
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