4 Keys To Developing Academic Vocabulary. 4 Keys To Developing Academic Vocabulary by Drs. William & Pérsida Himmele Lack of academic language can prevent students from progressing in most areas of schooling. In this post we present four key ways to support students in their academic language growth, so that they can more meaningfully engage with texts. 1) Modeling Think of all the words that you know and use. Most of your vocabulary came from being immersed in contexts where it was understood, through meaningful interactions with more linguistically proficient people. 2) Immersion When was the last time you learned a fancy new word? Create an environment where students read. For example, see the works of authors like Kate DiCamillo and Cornelia Funke. 3) Interactions Total Participation Techniques (TPTs) refer to teaching techniques that provide teachers with evidence of active participation and cognitive engagement from all students at the same time. 4) Teaching Certain words will need to be explicitly taught.
Drs. Rethinking grammar | hughdellar. The keys to creative class activities: An online chat with Teaching English. 4 great reasons to use songs in English teaching. The theme for the 33rd ELT blogging carnival is ‘Using Music and Songs in EFL Classes’ and includes a huge array of ideas for teaching classes with songs for a huge number of great ELT bloggers. I’m increasingly a fan of using music in my lessons and find it to be an effective teaching tool.
It did, nevertheless, take me many years to cotton on to the benefits of using music in class. So, if you’re not convinced and are still wondering why you should use music to teach English, here are four great reasons to start doing so. 1. Listening to music is fun The sheer volume of music out there means there will always be something suitable for the lesson you’re planning and allows for interesting changes of pace in the classroom. 2. The natural melody, rhythm and repetition can encourage retention: these elements collaborate together as an effective teaching and learning tool. 3. In addition to being fun and helping build retention, music can also be used to teach cultural awareness. 4. 15 great ice-breaker ideas and downloable worksheets. Teach them English Adam Simpson's blog Skip to content ← 30 free resources for lessons about personality and feelings 15 free resources for teaching classroom language → 15 great ice-breaker ideas and downloadable worksheets Posted on September 18, 2013 by Adam Ice-breakers are an essential part of any class, so having a bank of ideas to pick from is always a good idea.
Conversation exercises and questions for one-to-one introductions Introductory icebreakers primarily for group interaction Icebreakers from here on my blog! Don't miss any of my posts! You might also like: My 5 favourite ice breaker activities 15 free resources for teaching classroom language 5 great ice-breakers in five days: #4 Brain Gym Master Class Linkwithin This entry was posted in Teaching ideas and tagged downloadable icebreakers and ideas for icebreaker activities. 4 Responses to 15 great ice-breaker ideas and downloadable worksheets Leave a Reply Your email address will not be published.
Teach them English. Teach them English. My 10 favourite books about teaching English grammar. Funnily enough, I knew absolutely nothing about English grammar until I first started thinking about becoming a language teacher. Actually, if you’re a native speaker of English, that shouldn’t really come as a surprise at all. What that means, though, is that my grammar learning career is just about reaching its fifteenth year now, with no signs of me mastering the subject yet! Here are the books that have helped me along the way, both in getting my head around what grammar is and in enabling me to teach grammar. 1.
By Susan Conrad and Douglas Biber This is one of my favourite, if not best ever, classroom resources. This innovative, corpus-based grammar text uses the latest corpus research (as of 2009, anyway) to show how 50 grammatical structures and expressions are used in speech and writing. Real Grammar is an essential tool and can be used either as a self-study by students, or as a teaching tool. 2. By Scott Thornbury I won this in an end-of-conference raffle! 3. By Jim Scrivener 4.
Investigating the emotional side of the classroom: What can we learn from the Jones model of positive discipline? Grammar. The Best of the Language Learning Web--Poplingual | What's Popping in Language Learning! Vocabulary, Vocabulary Games - www.myvocabulary.com. Sentence Fluency | LessonCast. Grammar. Autoenglish.org. Help to say: Learn English and other languages together.
The Great Language Game. English conversation phrases and expressions for speaking practice. Past participle – divided according to the pronunciation ,ENGAMES. Last week I taught passive and present perfect tense. I thought that I was well prepared but in both cases we encountered one big problem. The students could not form the past participles correctly. So they fought with the past participles and completely ignored the grammar taught. So now I know that we have to deal with past participles before we return to the two grammatical points again. That is why I have prepared this post. Past participles – mind map Here I try to track some regularities in forming the past participles in English.
Past participles are not as difficult as they seem. In this section of the post you can practise the 40 past participles in different games. The second game is called En Garde. Click Here to play the game The third game has already been presented on our site. Knowble Articles. Fast phrasals. Upcoming Pronunciation Presentation. EAP Speaking - Language. Useful language Advising and persuading Agreeing Apologising Asking for clarification /more information Asking for information Asking for opinions Asking for permission Challenging Changing the subject/Moving on Checking that people are following Checking that you have understood Classifying / categorising Comparing Concluding Contrasting Controlling the discussion Dealing with difficult questions Defining Describing aims and objectives/Intentions Describing change Describing function Describing graphs and figures Describing objects Describing procedures Describing processes and developments and changes Disagreeing Expressing doubt and reservation Encouraging Emphasising a point Evaluating Exemplification - giving examples Expressing method and means Expressing certainty Expressing reasons and explanations Following up a question Expressing frequency Generalising Giving background information Giving further information Giving instructions Giving opinions.
Giving, withholding & seeking permission Hypothesising Inviting Listing Time.