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CHARACTER ROLE PLAY: Each student takes one of the central characters in the article. The teacher can add more. Students with the same roles discuss their characters and plan what they will say in the role play. The teacher sets the scene for the role play.
STUDENT DECIDED ROLES: The teacher outlines the nature / situation [...] -
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Pre-reading and pre-listening ideas to ease students into interaction with the article, expose them to vocabulary and ideas and thus make the article easier to negotiate.
TRUE/FALSE CHOICE: Create a series of true/false sentences. For each proposition, include one sentence that is true and its false partner.Circle the sentence that you think is correct
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Written By: admin on December 24, 2008 No Comment
Many of these activities are intended for five- to ten-minute bursts of activity, although many could be used for extended fluency practice.
WORDS BRAINSTORM: Teacher writes a keyword related to the news article on the board. Students spend one minute brainstorming all of the words they associate with that keyword. Students talk about the words in [...] -
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English Skill Level: All
Grade Level: All
Also Called: Learner-Centered Curriculum
Background
The learner-centered approach is a general orientation toward language teaching that has evolved since the 1970s in reaction to teacher-fronted, top-down language teaching classrooms and curriculum. In general, a learner-centered approach focuses on the background, needs, and expectations of students to create a more effective, authentic, and [...] -
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English Skill Level: Advanced Beginning to Advanced
Grade Level: Elementary to Adult
Background
Instead of teaching reading through traditional, bottom-up approaches using basal readers, students are given the opportunity to explore reading through the use of authentic texts. There are various methods
within the parameters of this approach, including literature-based discussion groups outlined here.
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Written By: admin on February 16, 2009
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CHARACTER ROLE PLAY: Each student takes one of the central characters in the article. The teacher can add more. Students with the same roles discuss their characters and plan what they will say in the role play. The teacher sets the scene for the role play.
STUDENT DECIDED ROLES: The teacher outlines the nature / situation [...]
Written By: admin on February 7, 2009
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Ideas to provide students with the language to move from the news article into conversation.
EXPONENTS TO MOVE FROM ARTICLE TO CONVERSATION: Providing suitable exponents can enable learners to more confidently talk about a text they have in front of them. It is quite natural for anyone armed with a newspaper, magazine or book to want [...]
Written By: admin on January 3, 2009
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Activities to aid students’ reading or listening comprehension and to reduce the cognitive burden and pressure of “cold” reading / listening.
GAP FILL: A traditional exercise in which students reinsert words that have been taken out of a text:
Put the words on the bottom into the correct gaps.
Landmine elephant gets new foot
EXAMPLE: New developments in ________ [...]
Written By: admin on December 30, 2008
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Pre-reading and pre-listening ideas to ease students into interaction with the article, expose them to vocabulary and ideas and thus make the article easier to negotiate.
TRUE/FALSE CHOICE: Create a series of true/false sentences. For each proposition, include one sentence that is true and its false partner.
Circle the sentence that you think is correct
Google wants to [...]
Written By: admin on December 24, 2008
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Many of these activities are intended for five- to ten-minute bursts of activity, although many could be used for extended fluency practice.
WORDS BRAINSTORM: Teacher writes a keyword related to the news article on the board. Students spend one minute brainstorming all of the words they associate with that keyword. Students talk about the words in [...]
Written By: admin on December 24, 2008
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Game Categories:
Opener
Energizer
Communication
Team-building
Review
Topical
Purpose: To help participants recognize the innate ability they have to learn new material.
Time Required: 10 to 15 minutes.
Size of Group: Unlimited, but participants should work in “rotating” pairs.
Materials Required: None.
Written By: admin on December 18, 2008
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Game Categories:
Opener
Energizer
Communication
Team-building
Review
Topical
Purpose: To get small groups thinking together and creatively solving tough problems.
Time Required: 20 minutes.
Size of Group: Unlimited, but participants should work in small groups of five to seven.
Materials Required: A flipchart with the alphabet displayed vertically, prepared in advance by the trainer.
Written By: admin on December 16, 2008
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The major press outlets are abuzz this morning with news of a major new security flaw that affects all versions of Internet Explorer from IE5 to the latest beta of IE8. The attack has serious and far-reaching ramifications — and they’re not just theoretical attacks. In fact, the flaw is already in wide use as [...]
