How to Dramatize Your Foreign Language Teaching and Learning. In his first article in this series, Larry Lynch looked at some ways of using drama in an EFL classroom. Here, he suggests some more, including "Improvised dialogues" and "Double Talk dialogues". In my previous article "How to Add Drama to an EFL Class or Start a Drama Group" some interesting ways in which you could initiate Drama into an EFL class or new drama group were suggested.
If you’re a foreign language student, sooner or later you'll start becoming "tired" or "bored" with the more conventionally used teaching approaches. This is especially true if you attend (or teach) a class that must follow a standard curriculum or course book series. Do Improvised Dialogues Another popular technique is to "improvise" scenes based on specific character sets in different situations, like a Mother - Daughter, Father - Son, Teacher - Student, Boss - Worker, Robber - Bank Teller, Waiter - Customer, or a multitude of other possible combinations of two, three or even more characters. Comments. Model EFL Classroom Interactions: Teaching Speaking Through Guided Conversations. Model dialogues can indeed be excellent starting points to teach speaking skills. They are short enough to learn by heart but are usually rich in contexts. Furthermore, they are easy to exploit for expansion.
Let me describe how I used model dialogues in one of my classes. It was the first meeting. After some icebreaker activities, I told them the objectives (in their native tongue), explained the context of the dialogue they were going to listen to and then began to present a model dialogue with the help of a tape-recorder. Here is the dialogue script. Robert : Hello, I’m Robert. Sylvia : My name’s Sylvia. Robert : Are you French? Sylvia : No, I’m not. I took Robert’s part, and my class took Sylvia’s part. You see that the last two lines were not quite relevant for my class since the students were of the same nationality.
At the next stage, I picked some lines from the model and drilled them, supplying appropriate words and expressions. What’s your name ? Are you from France ? Using Silent Video in the EFL Classroom. This 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 get the students so absorbed in the communicative act that they forget they are learning. When we forget and are not consciously fixated on the language – we learn so much more! So here are a few suggestions on how to use these with students.
Ways to use a silent video clip…. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. My favorite silent short videos. 1.. 2. 3. What’s your favorite “silent” video for teaching languages? PS> See Ana Maria Menezes’ post and suggestions for using Silent videos in the classroom! Mackenzie - Using CNN News Video in the EFL Classroom. The Internet TESL Journal Alan S. Mackenzieasm [at] typhoon.co.jpSimul Academy of International Communication Tokyo CNN at low levels?
It can't be done. It is too difficult. Programs Why CNN? Below I have listed some of the programs I find most useful with a general description of the program content. Program Content Travel Watch Profiles of different countries, places of interest and general travel information. Future Watch Deals with a huge variety of topics, all concerned with the future of society in different parts of the world. Business Asia Focuses on Asian issues and the business community in general. CNN Headline News Short, up to date reports on what is happening around the world. Larry King Interviews with a variety of people from Magic Johnson to Hillary Clinton and Tom Cruise. Entertainment Today News and information on everything in the entertainment field: movies, music, stars and gossip.
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