Recipes for June, 2012
Sentence Auction
26 Jun 2012I used to play a game called Sentence Auction. Print up money from your home country and give each group of students the same ammount of money. I used to do $1000 in $10 and $20 bills. Then write a bunch of sentences on the board. Some will be correct, some will contain errors.
The beauty of the game is that you can work in what
Using Silent Video
26 Jun 2012This video is the BOMB! It is captivating, absorbing, a story par excellence but also SILENT! Yes, silent films are great for getting students to produce language -- and after all is said and done, that most often is the hardest thing to do, getting the students speaking and learning language by just communicating. That is our job, to
Making A Doodle Video
26 Jun 2012
Doodle songs/videos are a great activity you can do with your class! They really promote contextualized learning and motivate students because you have a final product and of course - there is music!
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Going To Pieces
26 Jun 2012
Most enthusiastic language teachers "Go To Pieces", meaning they literally use material that is in pieces and compels students to practice and communicate. At its heart, "pieces" is a way of teaching that puts communication at the core of language teaching and learning.
Think
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Blank Dialog Videos
26 Jun 2012
The blank dialogue is a very "natural" teaching approach. Something intuitive about it. I used it in my early days of teaching - just pausing a dialogue on cassette tape and asking students to respond. You had to get skilled with using those big buttons! That is what being a teckkie used to entail!
Storybook Writing
26 Jun 2012
Writing storybooks or making picture books is a great way to reinforce grammar and vocabulary. It also gives students confidence and pride in “producing” something visible and tangible to measure their English language learning experience.
There are several steps to making a storybook and
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- Wilfredo Vega: I have a similar activity but with playing cards. You take a deck of cards (take out the 2's) shuffl [...]
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