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Opener
Energizer
Communication
Team-building
Review
Topical
Purpose: To introduce participants to one another by uncovering their individual tastes.
Time Required: 10 to 25 minutes.
Size of Group: Unlimited.
Materials Required: None.
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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 December 30, 2008 One Comment
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 [...] -
Written By: admin on November 29, 2008 No Comment
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 [...] -
Written By: admin on September 8, 2008 No Comment
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.
Written By: admin on December 15, 2008
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Written By: admin on December 13, 2008
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Parts and Goals of a Listening and Speaking Course
The Four Strands
The basic argument, is that a well-balanced language course should consist of four roughly equal strands:
Learning through meaning-focused input; that is, learning through listening and reading where the learner’s attention is on the ideas and messages conveyed by the language.
Learning through meaning-focused output; that is, [...]
Written By: admin on December 11, 2008
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Game Categories:
Opener
Energizer
Communication
Team-building
Review
Topical
Purpose: To challenge participants to develop metaphors from everyday objects as an exercise in creativity.
Time Required: 10 to 20 minutes.
Size of Group: Unlimited, but participants should work in small groups of five to seven.
Materials Required: A paper sack for every small group, filled with a variety of everyday objects.
Written By: admin on December 7, 2008
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Game Categories:
Opener
Energizer
Communication
Team-building
Review
Topical: Sales
Purpose: To help sales trainees more readily absorb product information, ultimately producing material that can be used in new sales trainee orientation, as review material, or as job aids.
Time Required: 10 to 15 minutes.
Size of Group: Unlimited, but participants should work in small groups.
Materials Required: None.
Written By: admin on December 6, 2008
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Game Categories:
Opener
Energizer
Communication
Team-building
Review
Topical
Purpose: To help teams learn to set—and meet—group goals.
Time Required: 30 minutes, stretched over the course of a one-day session or over two days in a longer class.
Size of Group: Unlimited, but participants should work in teams of about four.
Materials Required: None.
Written By: admin on December 5, 2008
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Game Categories:
Opener
Energizer
Communication
Team-building
Review
Topical
Purpose: To encourage participants to create their own review session and provide the trainer with a snapshot evaluation of the material.
Time Required: 15 minutes.
Size of Group: Unlimited.
Materials Required: None.
Written By: admin on December 4, 2008
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Game Categories:
Opener
Energizer
Communication
Team-building
Review
Topical
Purpose: To help participants think creatively in any type of training class.
Time Required: 10 minutes.
Size of Group: Unlimited.
Materials Required: Flipchart.
Written By: admin on December 1, 2008
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Ideas to “test the water” regarding students’ opinions towards news and current events stories. This writing also contains additional ideas to increase students’ motivation to study English using news stories.
1. THE NEWS HABIT: Encourage your students’ news reading / viewing / listening habits, whether it be in their L1 or in English. Keeping up with [...]
Written By: admin on December 1, 2008
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English Skill Level: Advanced Beginning to Advanced
Grade Level: Secondary to Adult
Background
By and large, vocational English (VESL) grew out of adult education ESL programs that determined the need for programs that are more particularly focused on work place skills. VESL developed to meet the needs of ESL students who planned on entering the workforce or who [...]
Written By: admin on November 29, 2008
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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 [...]
