Recipes Tagged ‘speaking’
Extensive Reading: Voice Diary
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12 Jan 2010
Extensive Reading: Voice Diary
This recipe works best if you combine it with Extensive Reading. It builds confidence and teaches reading, speaking, and listening
Encourage your students to make a voice diary with their cell phones. Its listed under the “Voice Memo” Feature. First you need to provide a high interest story to your students.
1. Have them read the story once quietly
2. …
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Angel vs Devil
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1 Dec 2009
This is a great way for students to practice using sequential transitions (Firstly / Furthermore / last but not least).Great for just speaking practice but also presentation or debate classess.
Provide the class with a list of topics (City living / Exercise / Learning English / being single). Model whole class. The teacher is the Devil and the students the Angel.
1. The teacher (Devil)…
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Backdoor – a great teaching technique
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12 Aug 2009Mr. Bean works well with this technique.
Backdoor is a technique where in pairs students sit back to back. One student watches the screen and describes the action. The teacher can write vocab. on the board to prompt student talk. Continue for a few minutes then pause the video and the pairs switch positions.
Continue and then watch the end of the video together, describing without the sound.
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This is an excellent way to get students speaking and to practice "home" related vocabulary and prepositions.
1. Warm up by quizzing students about prepositions. Take a pen and place it around your body. Ask, "Where's the pen?". Place it in some funny places!
2. In pairs with a pen, students practice and do the same as modeled by the teacher.
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Who would win – Mighty Mouse or Superman?
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