Language Teacher Toolkit: 5 great zero preparation lesson ideas When the pressure is on and there are only so many hours on the week, you need a repertoire of zero preparation go-to activities which promote input and/or practice. Here are five you might well find useful. 1. We know that listening is the most important yet often neglected skill for language learning. You tell the class you are going to recount what you did last weekend and that they have to make notes in English. You then make some true or false (maybe not mentioned too) statements in the target language about what you said in your account. 2. Pupils work in small groups. This is definitely an "output" task but one which can encourage students to speak fearlessly with an ear on fluency rather than accuracy. 3. For intermediate to advanced level. • My brother has twin sons. • I have three cats. • If I’d been a boy, I would’ve been called George. • My family was brought up in Spain. • My favourite movie is The Sound of Music. • My father was an extra in Star Wars. 4. What's her name? 5.
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BookTube, une nouvelle façon de parler livre – Monde du Livre Résumé : Avez-vous déjà entendu parler de BookTube ? Ce néologisme est la contraction de deux mots anglais : book, soit livre et YouTube, la plate-forme américaine de vidéo en ligne. Les chroniques littéraires existent sur YouTube depuis le lancement de la plateforme en 2005, mais il faut attendre 2009 pour que la tendance prenne de l’ampleur aux États-Unis. Aujourd’hui le phénomène est mondial, les communautés anglophones et hispanophones – notamment en Espagne et Argentine – sont les plus importantes.Le principe ? Des lecteurs – booktubeurs – publient des vidéos en ligne sur leur chaîne pour parler de leurs lectures, partager leurs découvertes et coups de cœur. Ils se filment la plupart du temps dans leur chambre ou devant des étagères pleines de livres et proposent des critiques décalées et personnelles, en monologue face caméra. Abstract : Have you heard of BookTube? Il y en a pour tous les goûts. Une des caractéristiques de la tendance est l’hyper-connectivité des acteurs.
Nik's QuickShout Most Influential Images – elt sparks “Pictures can create an atmosphere where change is possible.” – James Nachtwey The 100 most influential photos published in a website by time magazine is the perfect SPARK to talk about the power of images. Striking and powerful images engage students towards deeper discussion where they not only describe the image, but also speculate on the stories behind them. This lesson culminates in a task where students choose an image from the internet and talk about why it is influential and representative of 2016. CONTEXT – Image spark: Show Ss the ‘Man on the Moon’ image (see above). Create a context with a Q&A session about the photo (pair/group work).Write question prompts on the board – Who? Suggested questions: What do you see? Step 2: Ask Ss to complete the sentence in pairs: (after a couple of minutes of brainstorming, I alowed students to use dictionaries) This photo is one of the most _____________ images of all time. Step 3 – Return to context: Step 4: Choose 5 images from the following website:
A letter to … my hard-working mum, the strongest person I know Yesterday, bailiffs entered your house, threatening to take your dining table, the TV and your car-boot-sale plates. My heart broke over and over again as you cried, saying, “They’re taking everything I’ve ever worked for.” While my father chased dreams all over the world, all of which ended in failure – expensive litigation, bailiffs knocking on the door, enforcement agents and angry red letters – you worked and worked and worked. I will never forgive my father. When the bailiffs and the police came to the house, I was on the other side of the river, drinking in the pub with people I hoped to work with one day. I want you to know that I have seen all the letters. But still you smile with us; you take the time to ask us how our day went and you celebrated with me when I received my results from the first stage of law school. While my father is in some other part of the world running away from his responsibilities, you work every day as a teacher. Until then, we are sorry. Your daughter,
Apps to update your teaching skills | LTSIG Share this..... Teacher’s toolbox series Teachers blogging about their favourite tools By Angeles Hergenreder Do you feel your teaching skills need an upgrade? Have you considered the help of smartphones to do so? Their usage is making a huge impact on our lives and that, of course, includes how and where we teach and learn. Getting started An application or app is a type of software designed to perform a specific task such as playing a game, adding special effects to photos or collecting content from the Internet. Phones come with many apps already installed. You can run apps on your computer too. Educational apps There are many educational apps available to study English. While searching for educational apps to expand my students’ exposure to the language, I found the British Council apps. What I did with the apps was to assign some exercises to my students as homework and ask them to take screenshots to show their results. Noneducational apps Beautiful QR Code Generator Instagram Mindly Sing!
25 ideas for using audio scripts in the ELT classroom | Oxford University Press Philip Haines is the Senior Consultant for Oxford University Press, Mexico. As well as being a teacher and teacher trainer, he is also the co-author of several series, many of which are published by OUP. Today he joins us to provide 25 engaging and useful classroom activities for language learners using audio scripts. Many ELT student books come with audio scripts at the back. However, these are sometimes not exploited to the full. Here are 25 ideas for how to make better use of this resource. Before listening to the audio for the first time: While listening to audio for the first time: After listening to the audio: Like this: Like Loading...
Viewing ESL/EFL Blogs | TOPICS CALL Pages | ESL/EFL | Sandy Peters Create Your Own ESL/EFL Blogs Sandy Peters Viewing ESL/EFL Blogs To get an idea of ways you can use blogs in ESL/EFL, take a look at various types of blogs created by both educators and students. Blogs Used in ESL/EFL Classes Our Class 2007 Rosa Ochoa creates class blogs where she sets up weekly work for her adult migrant advanced students AMEP in Sydney, Australia.There are quizzes, competitions, students' own texts, students' recipes, photos, videos, and a lot more. Blogs to Extend ESL Class Projects: Relevant Postings and Student Comments Globally Speaking Sandy Peters used this blog to provide her ESL students an out-of-class writing space where they can express their ideas and opinions on topics of global interest. A Look at Bullying Sandy Peters used this blog to help university ESL students explore and comment on aspects an issue of consequence: school bullying. Class Blogs and Student Blogs that Successfully Incorporate Web 2.0 Tools Blogs Offering a Collection of Podcasts
Describing the Picture Word Inductive Model by Emily F. Calhoun The PWIM is an inquiry-oriented language arts strategy that uses pictures containing familiar objects and actions to elicit words from children's listening and speaking vocabularies. Teachers use the PWIM with classes, small groups, and individuals to lead them into inquiring about words, adding words to their sight-reading and writing vocabularies, discovering phonetic and structural principles, and using observation and analysis in their study of reading, writing, comprehending, and composing. The picture word inductive model can be used to teach phonics and spelling both inductively and explicitly. However, the model is designed to capitalize on children's ability to think inductively. Figure 2.1. For example, teachers using the model to develop sight-word vocabulary and to work on phonemic and graphemic awareness may stop at Step 7. The picture word chart is the basic material for the PWIM lessons and units. Building on Language Development