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MONTH: APRIL
2014
RECOMMENDED WEBSITES
Making Students Stick to English
Posted on April 23, 2014
Here’s a video from Cambridge Universit
y Press about ways to get students to stick to English in class:
LISTENING CLASSES, RECOMMENDED WEBSITES, UNCATEGORIZED
Experimenting with English (Part 2) – Activities for learners to do
outside the classroom [26 and counting!]
Posted on April 22, 2014
A great way to push students to do more outside class.
Lizzie Pinard
In my blog post
Experimenting with English: scaffolding learner autonomy,
I discussed how I approached
autonomy
helping my learners to use English outside the classroom, drawing on learner autonomy theory and
methodology (e.g.
Benson, 2011; Oxford, 2003; Smith 2003).
Central to that project, alongside the very
important element of discussion, was a handout I created for my learners.
Here is a screenshot of a sample page, taken from the listening section:
Sample page from my Experimenting with English activities handout, listening section.
As you can see, the handout consists of a series of activities for learners to try, with space for them to
record when they tried it and what they thought of it. The handout is divided up by skill (reading,
listening, speaking, writing). What you can’t see here is that in each subdivision, as well as the activities
I’ve added, there is space for the learners…
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RECOMMENDED WEBSITES
Photransedit: Online phonetic transcription tool
Posted on April 21, 2014
A great tool which immediately transcribes words or sentences into the phonetic alphabet. Great to share with
students or use in class for those problematic words.
http://www.photransedit.com/online/text2phonetics.aspx
RECOMMENDED WEBSITES
English Central
Posted on April 18, 2014
Here are some great class “hooks” from English Central:
http://community.eflclassroom.com/profiles/blogs/every-book-has-its-cover
There’s also a great piece on 50 pieces of best practice for teachers:
http://community.eflclassroom.com/profiles/blogs/50-best-practices-for-language-teachers?
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UNCATEGORIZED
Mind-mapping social encounters: a generic lesson plan
Posted on April 18, 2014
Another great mind-mapping fluency activity from Olya at ELT Stories.
ELT stories
Just a short addition to the
previous post
in which I described how my B1-C1 students work on fluency
by mining texts for related expressions, organizing them into mind maps and retelling the texts several
times to different classmates.
I use a very similar procedure with my group of pre-intermediate 7 graders to help them remember
functional expressions used in social encounters (and generally in ‘Conversation Strategies’/’Everyday
English’ sections of coursebooks).
Image source:
http://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/obamashops.jpg
The general lesson plan is
[gist] Students listen to a dialogue from the coursebook and answer gist questions
[analysis] The teacher helps them to analyze what kind of expressions are present in the dialogue
and sketches a mind map on the board; the students copy the mind map and use the transcript to
find expressions in the dialogue to add to the mind map.
Usually I try to set up the gist questions so as to guide the…
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This American Life: Podcasts for Advanced Students
Posted on April 12, 2014
Fascinating podcasts on a wide range of topics:
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/491/tribes
UNCATEGORIZED
A few tweaks to the 4-3-2 technique: mining texts for lexis + mind-
mapping to increase fluency gains at B1-C2 levels
Posted on April 11, 2014
A great activity for developing fluency.
ELT stories
Another one in a series of fluency-related posts – more links here:
contents.
One of the most widely known classroom activities that target fluency is Paul Nation’s 4-3-2 technique:
students tell the same story (or do the same task) under progressively stricter time constraints. The
idea is that students are pushed to perform faster and are forced to restructure the ‘routines’ they use,
and so the ‘formulation’ phase of speech production speeds up.
With my B1-C2 level students I use a slightly more complex procedure. Students find interesting articles
online in order to share them in class, but instead of just reading and retelling them them to their
classmates using more or less what linguistic resources they currently have, they actively mine text for
collocations. This tweak to the activity seems to tie in nicely with a lot of
insight into fluency described
in the previous post.
The full version involves some…
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