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TOOLS, TECHNIQUES AND ACTIVITIES
Songs and Music
Fillers
Lexical Games
Dictation
When T read a text aloud and Ss must write it down accurarately, it is not very popular but there could be many variations
Key Words Dictation
Collocation Dictation
Variations
The "Bad Cold" Dictation
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This are good fillers or integrated practice activities
Back to the board
Category list
Fictionary
Word Seeds
Word Dominoes
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This are some activities that Ts uses when they run out of other material, fillers could be used even as warm ups
Some common fillers
Revision Dictation
Yes and no Questions
The Hotel Receptionist Game
Kim's Game
Ordering
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Storytelling
Picture Stories
Flashcards
These are pictures diagrams or words that T can use for various activities
They can be found on Internet and should be organized by themes in files
To show meaning of lexical activities
To illustrate presentations of language
To tell a story
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These are found in book, poster or could be draw at the board
Accuracy to Fluency
It starts by looking at the language involved in the story before telling the story
Introduction of topic
Focus on essential lexis
To discuss the language focus
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Fluency to accuracy
It just goes in reverse
Stories could be used but trying to control TTT in different kinds of the lesson
Basic Techniques
Mentally prepare your story beforehand
Give clear instructions
Tell your story, do not read
When it is over, let Ss talk about it if they want
Leave it and go on to something else
Interesting lyrics and clarify of vocals help to make a song into appropriate classroom material
Ideas for using sings in class
Gapped text, reading or listening comprehension, song jumble, matching picture, dictation, listen and discuss, sing along, compose, etc
Ideas for using music in class
At the start of the lesson, to give something to talk about, for pleasure or break, to close down or conclude the lesson, etc.
Projects
Getting Know
TV, DVD, Video
Basic guidelines for using them
Keep it short, exploit the materiam blank the scream when Ss do not need to look at it, do not use videos just for language
A video has:
Sounds, moving pictures, a rewind, pause and volume bottom
Using video in class
Preview
: What T does before watching the video
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Before the activities T must establish his aims for the class
Getting to know activities
Find someone who...
Ss receive a card with questions and look for someone
People Bingo
, with the Ss's names and asking for their own description
The small difference
, changing places of Ss and ask one to guess what is different
Anagrams
, minxing the letter of the names of the Ss
Spy
, prepare some cad and ask Ss to put T o F acording their information
These are useful way of providing and ongoing "thread" to classroom because it has a tangible outcome
These has three steps: (1) Decide the task, (2) research something (3) present results
Organizing a Project
Is it a personal, pair or group project? It will be a large task o structured in a serie of seps? How long it will be? How much time Ss will have?
Ideas for Specific Projects
A tourist guide for the local area, a web page to the your routine, a diary, a performance, invent a new country, etc.
Drama
Poetry
Sound-Effects
This are recordings without no hardly any words
Making a your own "sound sequence" tape
Plan a sequence between 7 and 10 easy-to-make sounds
Someone says
shhhh
; noisy footsteps, something breaking, someone running, someone say
Ah-ha
or
Oh
, etc.
T could direct activities like:
Story building, what's wrong with my story?, pictures with noises, verb hunting, wacky ideas, tense focus
It stimulates Ss to think in other ways
Reading poems
Chose one with an interesting and accessible metaphor
Tell the topic of the poem and let them brainstorm
Look at a list of words and ask what should be in the poem
Write a poem and let Ss study it
Do a picture dictation
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There are six type activities
Role play
, using info cards Ss act out some scenes
Simulation
, a large-scale role play
Drama games
, involving imagination
Guided improvisation
, a story or scene, Ss join one by one
Acting playing scripts
, short written sketches by Ss
Prepared improved drama
, Ss create an scene then perform
T could prepare games ike "interesting situations", "strange meeting", "making a picture" or even a another one
