This is what you end up with when you say to your students:
"That's all for today. 5 minutes left. What do you want to sing?"
Tuesday 22 March 2016
Monday 21 March 2016
PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION TOOL
A new tool at your disposal!
Recently, I wanted to find something new and out of the ordinary for my teenage brainiacs.
"Transcription!" I thought and I wound up with that link:
- The ways to use it?
- Plenty. E.g.:
* matching words / sentences with their phonetic transriptions;
* matching pictures with words written with phonetic symbols;
* a fragment of a text from a coursebook read previously during the lesson transcribed phonetically >> handed out to students to untranscribe;
* sentences to untranscribe as an extra task / homework;
* lyrics / fragments of lyrics / of popular songs for students to untranscribe;
* _ _ _ your _ _ _ _ _ _ ideas _ _ _ _ _ (to share with us ;)."
Monday 14 March 2016
GRAMMAR PRACTICE with CHINESE WHISPERS
A very simple but bringing lots of fun way to consolidate any grammar structure.
Afer all ado about form and use
(if you have that habit)
you can serve your
smart alecs a
game of
...
CHINESE WHISPERS.
Just prepare slips with sentences containing the grammar on the classroom menu ;)
and to make everything straight,
you can write a number next to a sentence on the slip
and the translation of the sentence with the corresponding number on your whiteboard.
Then, off you go with the whole lotta fun!
You can prepare sets of the same sentences for each team and make it a competition
OR
just choose a sentence for the whole group and wait for the final version of the original sentences
OR
( ... space for your invention ... ).
When it comes to the choice of the sentences, choose the most useful / common ones
OR
use the ones that appeared in the coursebook or worksheets during the lesson.
Help them recycle the material as much as possible.
To give you the idea...
for the verb TO BE, the sentences may be:
1. I'm terribly sorry.
2. Don't be mad at me.
3. How are things?
4. Are you alright?
5. She's from Olsztyn.
Enjoy engo-lingo!
Afer all ado about form and use
(if you have that habit)
you can serve your
smart alecs a
game of
...
CHINESE WHISPERS.
Just prepare slips with sentences containing the grammar on the classroom menu ;)
and to make everything straight,
you can write a number next to a sentence on the slip
and the translation of the sentence with the corresponding number on your whiteboard.
Then, off you go with the whole lotta fun!
You can prepare sets of the same sentences for each team and make it a competition
OR
just choose a sentence for the whole group and wait for the final version of the original sentences
OR
( ... space for your invention ... ).
When it comes to the choice of the sentences, choose the most useful / common ones
OR
use the ones that appeared in the coursebook or worksheets during the lesson.
Help them recycle the material as much as possible.
To give you the idea...
for the verb TO BE, the sentences may be:
1. I'm terribly sorry.
2. Don't be mad at me.
3. How are things?
4. Are you alright?
5. She's from Olsztyn.
Enjoy engo-lingo!
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