TeflTecher : Tasks, Videos and Opinions for Tefl Teachers. EFL 2.0 – Teacher Talk. Life Feast. Teacher Reboot Camp. Writing to learn | close up. This post was inspired by Dave Dodgson in Ankara, Turkey, and his account of using dictogloss with young learners. I’m a big fan of dictogloss* (or dictocomp as Marisa Constantides calls it in a comment on the same blog post) and this is one of my favourite dictogloss activities. *For a definition of dictogloss please scroll down to the bottom of the post) [Writer's block - image by flickrFelix - a creative commons image] I first used this activity with a group of Spanish students in Madrid. They all worked for the Spanish Heart Foundation and were attending a one week intensive refresher course. They were confident, competent communicators and wanted to be stretched. It was the first class of the course, and as well as getting to know each other, I was interested in testing the waters and seeing how best to offer them a challenge.
We had dipped into Clockwise Advanced for a quick gist listening. I had held back on the last story in the set. This is the tapescript: Like this: Like Loading... How do you eat an elephant? Creating context in trainingthe Internal Trainer.