09/02/2020
Отличная брошюраhttps://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/sites/teacheng/files/pub_Starter%20Teachers%20A%20methodology%20course%20for%20the%20classroom.pdf для Starting Teachers и Teacher Trainers. Базовые вещи доступным языком. Понравились активити на vocabulary recycle. Привожу тройку самых интересных.
# Collocation pairs
1. Ask participants to form pairs of A and B.
2. Explain that A will write down the first, third, fifth words etc. while B will write down the second, fourth, sixth words etc.
3. Check the instructions have been understood.
4. Dictate the following words: absolutely recognition deserve information high influence highly amazing inside rise reliable unlikely sharp evidence strongly inadequate woefully expectations
5. Ask pairs to make collocates: high expectations, highly unlikely, absolutely amazing, deserve recognition, inside information, strongly influence, sharp rise, reliable evidence, woefully inadequate.
# Rub them out
1. Write up a list of words on the board from recent lessons.
2. Divide the class into two teams.
3. Ask a person from one team to come to the front and explain a word, then rub it out.
4. Next, ask someone from the other team to do the same.
5. Continue until all the words have gone.
Note: Coursebooks usually don’t recycle new vocabulary enough (a minimum of 20 times is needed!). You need to introduce activities that compensate for this i.e. those above and activities such as Vocabulary Relay (students grouping words in sets on board), Hot seat, Word box etc.
# Things that are ...
1. Choose a colour e.g. red, blue, yellow.
2. Ask the students to work individually and make a list of ten things that are of the colour you have chosen. Set a short time limit to keep up the pace of the activity.
3. Put students in pairs, but tell them NOT to show their list to their partner.
4. Explain that the aim of the activity is to see who in each pair can guess the most things from their partner’s list in five minutes. To do this they will ask yes/no questions.
Be sure to check students understand what kind of questions they can ask. For example:
A: Can you eat it? B: Yes. A: Is it a fruit? B: Yes. A: Does it grow on trees? B: No. etc.
5. Give learner A in each pair five minutes to guess. After the time limit, swap roles with learner B guessing. At the end, find out the who guessed correctly most often.
Note: Adrian Tennant, course director, first came across this idea in Alternatives by Richard and Marjorie Baudains (see bibliography).
И на пунтуацию. Просто и не скучно.
# Board punctuation
1. Write up a short text (can be from a coursebook) on the board but leave out punctuation, capital letters etc.
2. Students take turns coming up to the board and correcting the text.