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Didactic Activities - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Look for an interesting soap opera, movie, newspaper or magazine and assign a reading.
    - - Guide students to discover their pronunciation rules.
        
        Listen to authentic language to determine rules for sentence stress.
        
        Listen to interviews to determine rules for intonation.
    - - The teacher can model this in front of the class and then let students work in pairs.
- - - - This serves two purposes: it insures that the entire class hears the question. More importantly, it lets the questioner check your understanding of his or her question.
    - - You might ask another student (one who might know the answer) to respond.
    - - You might respond to the student's question by directing her (or his) attention to a particular aspect of the issue she has raised,
  - - - Step 2: (Optional) Tape-record the dictation exercise at normal speed with a brief pause after each sentence. (The advantage of tape recording the exercise is that students will not ask to slow it down or to repeat a word as readily.)
      - Step 3: (Optional) Make an overhead transparency of the dictation exercise with the blanks filled in.
      - Step 1: Get a copy of the dictation exercise for each student. You can have the students write directly in the blanks or if the materials are not consumable, you can have the students number the blanks and write the answer on a separate sheet.
- - - - There are two main purposes for teaching the dialog.
        
        First, it will provide the student with a bit of language that will help him/her perform in a particular setting (writing a check, buying a stamp, etc.).
        
        The second purpose of the dialog is to introduce certain high-frequency patterns of the language which will be practiced further in the dialog expansion activities.
  - - - The purpose of a speech is to clarify or to give information to a large group in a short period of time. Speech requires a great deal of preparation time and need to be supported by audio-visuals aids. The speech is a great opportunity for instructors and for students to improve their skills.