Education Teaching Methods ESL ToeFL

1. Azerbaijani 21st Century Teacher
Prepared
by
Joel Robbins
Peace Corps Response Volunteer 2012-13
for
The English Language and Literature Department
Calvin Tiessen, Chair
Khazar University
Hamlet Isaxanli, founder

2. A Rough Draft
of
Proposed
Presentations
to
Teachers
ConstructionZone—Be careful!
Work in progress.

4. DISCLAIMER: No one knows all the
answers to how to teach or how
students learn.
Teachers must find or develop a style
of their own that works with their
strengths, abilities and personality.
Try new techniques and methods, but,
if they don’t work for you, try
something else. We cannot tell each
other how to teach, we can only give
suggestions that have worked for us or
others whom we know.
READY TO TRY SOME THINGS?

5. What Are Happy, Well-Educated Students
Worth? EVERYTHING!

6. Arrange yourselves in a straight line in
alphabetical order by the words on your slips of
paper.
A F
C M
R

7. learn by Going!

8. The world is the best
classroom. USE IT!

9. Take a Field Trip to a Museum
to see a model of a town or…

10. Have the students study local, historical and
national personages,
then present oral reports on them in
English.
The photos on the next page are examples
of statues or busts that were in Sheki.
Students were required to identify the
persons, where the statues are located and
why these people are important to
Azerbaijan.
‘TREASURE HUNT’ Type of Assignment

12. Or
family
life of
early
Azeris

13. Or Traveling Exhibits at the
University

14. Hike to a local beautiful natural
wonder to talk about geology and
history in English.

15. Let your students practice English at
a Market during a field trip

16. Special Occasions Can Be Used to Practice
English and Share Cultures—Christmas

17. Local Cultural
Does Baku have opera and drama theaters,
history museums, pantomime theater,
historic buildings, statues, music halls, art
museums, recitals, a circus, a zoo, botanical
garden, etc.?
Most museums will have exhibits with
descriptions in both Azeri and English.
Have you taken any of your students to
them?

18. Old City Bath
and Caravan
Tavern

19. The Zoroastrian Temple in Baku

20. Increase
Improve Listening Skills by Scheduling
a Saturday Movie Club

21. Using The Library
or
Internet

22. Research in the library or on the
internet will insure that students
gain added knowledge that is up
to date and varied.

23. Mystery
Person
Give each group a
folder with written and
or graphic clues. They
must use English to
read, interpret, research
and discuss outside of
class period who they
think the person is.
An example of items
you might find in a
folder is on the next
slide.

25. Believe nothing that you hear,
a quarter of what you read
and half of what you see.

26. How do you know what you read in the
library or on the internet is creditable?
1. Is the publisher well established?
2. What are the author’s credentials?
3. Is the author associated with a group who can
benefit from this information?
4. Is it peer critiqued?
5. Is there a bibliography?
6. Is the document objective or one-sided?
7. Does the author exaggerate?
8. When was it written?

27. Critique this News Release for Validity
The population of endangered spotted owls of the
American Northwest is being reduced further by the lumber
industry. Only 50 spotted owls have been recorded as still in
existence.
The lumber industry doesn’t care. They would seem to be
satisfied to cut down every tree on earth.
Members of STOP (Save The Owls Project) are the only
group interested in saving the spotted owl from extinction.
It’s spotted owls today and the timber wolf tomorrow.
If you are interested in saving the world of nature, then
you need to act now.
Brad Pitt, STOP Founder, P.O. 487, Seattle, WA 23412
STOP Newsletter, August 2004

28. Student Presentations
and Projects

29. GROUP WORK: Students discuss an issue
or a project using English and then
present their findings to the class.

30. Students Use Their Visual
Aids During Oral Reports in English.

31. Role-plays,
Skits
&
Dramas
Allow
Students
to Be
Creative while
practicing
their English.

32. Students Can Choral Read a Poem and
Present It to Another Class

33. Students Write Skits in English,
Make Puppets and Put on Shows

34. Practice Lots of Skills with a Presentation
Here Is an Oral Book Report on King Lear

35. You and good students can assist a Teacher
in an English Classroom at a Local School.

36. Students make and play
educational board games

37. TEACHING
COLORS
AND
SHAPES

39. The Color Wheel
Primary —Red, Blue,
Secondary–Violet, Green,
Tertiary—mixtures of primary and
secondary colors
Black and White are not colors, but
we often referee to them as such.

41. What color is
the _______
shape?

43. Five-Minute Break
Come on. Tea break.

44. READ, Write, Listen and Speak

45. Short Writing Exercises
• Daily Journal or Diary—Write one sentence
about the most important event from
yesterday.
• Describe the last wedding you attended.
• Write about your favorite aunt or uncle.
• What would your dream future spouse be
like?
Don’t ask them to write about what they did
during the summer. Narrow the topic.

46. One of the problems with English classes is
teachers and students often spend much of
the class period speaking Azerbaijani.
Dərslərdən sonra
hara gedirsən?
Bilmirəm. Mən
bir fincan çay
içmək istərdim.

47. Is this an
English
Class?
Then
Speak
English!

48. A Guest Speaker Can Bring Variety to Class, SO
Plan a “guest day,” when several students
bring in people who are fluent in English, then
students can take turns interviewing them.

49. Everybody believes that being
able to read is of prime
importance.
Is it?
We must remember that those
who don’t read have no
advantage over those who can’t.

50. Sustained Silent Reading
To help students
develop a love for
reading, some schools or
departments have gone
to a program called
Sustained Silent Reading.
Everyone in the school,
from director
(department head) to
secretaries, stop for an
hour once a week to
read.

51. Need Current News for Discussion?
Go to DOGONEWS.COM
Ever since J.K. Rowling planted the
idea of an invisibility cloak in her
blockbuster Harry Potter book series,
scientists have been falling all over
themselves to create a material that
can not only camouflage people, but
also, buildings. Now a Canadian
company claims to have won that
race with a magical textile that it aptly
calls 'Quantum Stealth.'
Is Harry Potter's Invisibility Cloak A Reality?
TEASER

52. Real-world work—
Students write an
English language
university
newspaper.

53. Newspapers are not only practical
writing exercises for students,
they help young people
understand how a free press (free
speech) is one of the
cornerstones of a
democracy.
Qələm qılıncdan daha kəskin
olur.

54. The Fourth Estate
How important is writing?
Consider the role of the Fourth Estate in any
country’s freedom and stability.

55. How Well Do You Understand
Verbal Directions in English?
Could You Run a Maze Blindfolded?

56. Speak English with Your Students

57. Thousands of Computer Programs
Teach Reading and Speaking in
English.

58. Videos Improve Listening Skills

59. Reading
novels and
other
books in
English
increases
vocabulary.

60. Participating in FLEX Alumni sponsored
American Corners and English conversation
clubs increases fluency.

61. TRAVEL is one of the
best ways to increase
your language skills
Listed Are a Few English
Speaking Countries
USA, England, South Africa, Australia, New
Zealand, Virgin Islands, India, Hong Kong,
Canada, Puerto Rico, Liberia, Dominica & Kenya

62. Skype Pals
Instead of just a Pen Pal, have a Skype Pal
in an English-speaking country.

63. Student-Created Flashcards Help
Students Review Vocabulary
Here a student acts as an assistant teacher.

64. Give Groups note cards featuring Random
Words and Punctuation marks. Then Have
Them Make Different Complete Sentences.
Make a declarative sentence.
did
town
you
go
.
?
!
to yesterday

65. Give Groups note cards featuring Random
Words and Punctuation marks. Then Have
Them Make Different Complete Sentences.
Make a command.
did
town
you
go
.
?
!
to

66. Use a Homemade Clock with Movable Hands to
Review Telling Time In English

67. Repetition
Write a sheet of sentences you want your
students to know and use them in class often.
Teacher Students
Welcome to class. I am glad to be here.
Is the window open? Yes, the window is open.
What day is it? It is Friday.
Did you do your homework? Yes, I did my homework.
Stand up. I am standing up.
Did you come to school today? Yes, I came to school.
Did you drink tea for breakfast? Yes, I drank tea.
Have you eaten at the café? No , I have not eaten there.

68. Sharing Your Interactive
Lesson Ideas

69. DAY FOUR

70. Hear the sledges with the bells -
Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
In the icy air of night!
While the stars that oversprinkle
All the heavens, seem to twinkle
With a crystalline delight;
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells -
From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.

71. The Most Important Aspect
of
Any Curriculum

72. CHARACTER EDUCATION
If parents and instructors make sure
students understand and adhere to the following
high standards, teaching and learning will take
place smoothly and efficiently.
PILLARS of GOOD CHARACTER
Trustwortiness
Respect
Responsibility
Fairness
Caring
Citizenship

73. Trustworthiness
Build trust with consistency between
your beliefs, words and actions, be
honest--Vicdanlı adam həqiqəti qorxu
deyil. Keep promises, be on time and
be loyal to family, friends, and country.
“To believe in something,
and not to live it, is
dishonest.” ― Mahatma
Gandhi

74. Respect
Honor the worth and
dignity of all individuals—
men and women, old and
young, Azerbaijanis or
foreigners. Treat others the
way you would want to be
treated. Avoid rude,
offensive, and abusive
words and actions.

75. Responsibility
Be accountable for your words
and actions. Exercise self-control.
Strive for excellence and self-
improvement. Set a good
example for others. Be self-
reliant and hard-working.
“An adulterer will not commit adultery when
he has full faith (in Allah), and a thief will
not steal when he has full faith (in
Allah)..”——— Ibn Majah.

76. Fairness
Be consistent, open, and treat all people
equitably. Consider all sides and make
decisions on the facts without favoritism or
prejudice. Play by the rules, avoid careless
accusations, and don’t cheat yourself or
others. Pursue justice and condemn
injustice. Practice collaboration and
cooperation.

77. Caring
Be kind, compassionate, empathetic,
charitable, forgiving, and grateful.
“None of you truly believes until he wishes for his
brother what he wishes for himself.”--Muhammad

78. Citizenship
Obey laws in good faith. Do your share to
improve the well-being of fellow citizens and
the community. Protect the environment,
volunteer, and participate in the processes
of democracy by staying informed and
voting. “Our prime purpose in this
life is to help others. And if
you can't help them, at least
don't hurt them.” --Dalai
Lama

79. “The secret to happiness in this
world is not only to be useful, but
to be forever elevating one’s
uses.”
—Sarah Orn Jewett,
American Novelist
Do you agree?

80. How Children andolder
students Can Learn while
playing

81. Which group can make a complete sentence the
fastest? The longest sentence? The shortest
sentence? A compound sentence?
are coat yesterday ? did town !
going go a is to town went not .
tomorrow , wants will to you and he
hat buy shop to in
EXAMPLES
You are going to shop tomorrow in town, and
he will buy a coat. Or Buy a hat.

82. For Children, try nursery rhymes.
“Here’s the way we
walk to school, walk
to school, walk to
school; this is the
way we walk to
school, on a cold and
windy morning.”
Replace the following
for “walk to school.”
--comb our hair
--wash our hands
--button our shirt
--brush our teeth
--eat our food
Students act out the motions.

83. OR Dance the Hokey Pokey
“Put your right
foot in, put your
right foot out,
put your right
foot in and you
shake it all
about. You do
the hokey pokey
and you turn
yourself around,
that’s what it’s all
about.” Substitute hand, elbow, hip,
head, knee, etc. for foot.

84. Simon Says
Students stand up. Then they are given
commands. If “Simon says,” the students must
follow the command.
If a student doesn’t follow directions he
becomes Simon and tries to catch other
students not listening carefully.
Sample commands:
Simon says, “Touch your right ear.” (not left ear)
Simon says, “Turn around.”
Simon says, “Lift your left foot.”
“Put your left foot down.” (Simon didn’t say to
do this.)

85. Word Race!
As many pairs of student as will fit should
go to the board. The tallest one writes an
English word on the board. The other student
must use the last letter of that word as the
first letter of his word.
The contest goes on until one student
unintentionally repeats a word or can’t think
of a new word within five seconds.
Winners compete against other winners
and losers sit down. You can compete until
you have a class champion. See next slide.

86. GUNAY KAMRAN
Horse Elephant
Team Mirror
Really Yes
Scurry

87. Sharing Simulation Ideas

88. Back-to-Back
Activities

89. Back-to-Back Pair Work
If you want students to
speak more than 10 seconds
per class period, have them
do back-to-back
question-and-answer
exercises.
During most of this type of exercise, all the
students will have to either be reading,
listening, speaking or writing in English.
That could be 20 minutes of English usage.

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Pair Work: Students are given worksheets with
information missing that they have to acquire from
their partner by speaking in English. Put 12 items on
each worksheet. Tell them: “NO PEEKING.”
Sharing
Information
in
English

91. Pear
Work
Or
PAIR
WORK

92. Back-
to-
Back
Work

93. Meeting
2 am
Name items and tell where, how many, what color?

94. What are
they
feeling or
thinking?

95. PAIR WORK: One student faces the
monitor or screen, while the other
faces the back wall.
The one facing the wall asks questions
in English about the pictures and writes
down the answers in English. The other
looks at the pictures and answers the
questions.
USE COMPLETE SENTENCES

96. Using pictures on the next seven slides:
1. Which bus is coming? What color is it? Are there stripes on it? Is it a
marshrutka or a large bus?
2. How many buildings are there? What color is the middle
building? How many windows does it have? Are the lights on in any
rooms? How many rooms are lit?
3. Is it a man or a woman? What color is her hair? Is she in a suit or
dress? What is in her right hand? What’s in her left? Describe her shoes.
4. What kind of tree is it? What does it look like? Are there any colors in
the picture? How many things are one the tree? What shapes do you see?
5. What is the brand of the camera? What color is the case? How many
megapixels does it have? What is the number on the lens? What is the
price?
6. What is it? Is it large or small? Is it ripe or unripe? What color is it? How
much does it cost?
7. What is the woman wearing? What color is her hair? Is her clothing all
one color? Is she in work, casual or party clothing? Is she wearing jewelry?

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104. The following are
Extra Slides for Your Own
Questions

106. Costa Rica

107. Beach
Volleyball
Miami,
Florida

108. Havana, Cuba

109. Baku Zoo

110. Fill the classroom
shelves with PROPS.
Then use them to
teach vocabulary or
positions: for
example, where are
the binoculars? Put
the robot behind the
table.

111. Writing Activities

112. Writing Across the Curriculum
To promote writing in
every department and
classroom, many
schools require
teachers to assign at
least one essay a
semester to be written
and graded by the
instructor.

113. Writing for Contests
Local, national
or
international
essay contests
can be
motivators for

114. One word per person stories.
Arif boarded an
for
airplane
Paris

115. You will seat the students in a circle. Then you
will start a story. For example, you may say: “A
student went on a bus to Zagatala to see his…”
Then you will cue the first student to continue the
story with an English phrase. For example, the
student might say, “…girlfriend, and he sat down
next to a man with…” Then the second student
must add another phrase, “…one eye and a
beard…” Then the third might say, “The one-eyed
man stared at the student and said…”
Have Student Write a “Chain” Story

116. For homework, have students write their
own children’s book in English. Have them
peer critique the books before using ink.
They can illustrate it with magazine
clippings or drawings.
When they’re done, they can read it to a
child they know and give it to them.

117. WRITE A LIMERICK
There was a young lady named Lynn A
Who was so uncommonly thin A
That when she essayed B
To drink lemonade B
She slipped through the straw and fell in. A
-/--/--/
-/--/--/
-/--/ Rhythm
-/--/
-/--/--/
- / - - / - - /
Who was so un-com-mon-ly thin.

118. First pick a friend’s name, or the name of a
town. Write the first line.
There once was a girl from Baku
Or
There was a young girl named Arzu
Write all the words you can think of that
rhyme with whatever name you chose. In
the case of Baku or Arzu: You, shoe, glue,
clue, do, due, few, hue, too, blue, chew,
rue, new, stew, view, etc.

119. Now write the last, line 5. It should be
funny and rhyme with the first line.
1 There was a young girl named Arzu
2
3
4
5 And she ended up eating glue
Then add line 2.
1 There was a young girl named Arzu
2 Who was hungry for mamma’s stew
3
4
5 And she ended up eating glue

120. Finally fill in lines 3 and 4 with two
different rhyming lines. They should lead
to the last (punch) line.
1 There was a young girl named Arzu
2 Who was hungry for mamma’s stew
3 With no meat to carve
4 And afraid she would starve
5 She ended up eating glue

121. “Talk” on paper by “asking” questions in writing
in your notebook, trading notebooks, answering
on the other person’s notebook, responding,
and trading, and so on.
Silent
English
Language
Practice
Back-to-
Back

122. Logical Fallacies
How important is it
For students
To Be
Logical?

123. Logical Fallacies
Slippery Slope--Don’t take a sip of wine
when you’re a child or you will become a
drunk as an adult.
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc —I ate eggs for
breakfast and now my stomach hurts. I was
sold eggs that were bad.
Equivocation –Only the best students make
the soccer team so he must be one of the
best students in the university.

124. Ad populum –Everyone I know is voting for
Henry Jenkins, so you should vote for him
too.
Begging the Question –Since my college is
the best, you should go there too.
Ad Hominem –John’s volunteer projects are
bad because he cheats at his business.
False Dilemma –You either agree with me or
you’re poorly informed.

125. Red Herring –Why do we need to update
the curriculum? Look at our library and the
classroom furniture.
Non Sequitur –Why is he going to work
when his daughter is only in her second
year of college?
Division –The doctors’ guild is the richest
organization in town, so Dr. Robinson must
be one of the richest citizens.

126. Composition –Jake is a liar, so the soccer
club he belongs to is full of liars.
Faulty Syllogism –
Premise 1: All cats are black.
Premise 2: My pet is black.
Conclusion: My pet is a cat.
Hasty generalization —I saw two women
weaving back and forth on the road while
driving. Women are poor drivers.

127. Ad Misericordiam –I know I’m guilty, but you
have to remember I was mistreated as a child.
Argumentum ad Baculum --You had better
agree that the new company policy is the best
if you expect to keep your job.
Complex Question --Are you going to be a
good little boy and eat your vegetables?

128. Lesson Ideas

129. Have Fun Discussing Idioms
 Think outside the
box.
 Don’t go postal.
 I’ll have to pull some
strings.
 Pass the buck.
 She’s still on the
fence.

130. Collaboration and Competition
 Peer critique fellow student’s notes,
essays, pretests etc.
 Panel discussions and Debates
 Blackboard work
 Daily journal writing about lessons

131. Practice handling money, counting,
reading instructions, making deals,
etc. in English. If you speak
Azerbaijani,
you lose
5 Monopoly
dollars per
word.

132. What’s in the Bag?
Put a dozen
household or office
items in several
sacks. In pairs or
groups of three,
have the students
pull one object from
the bag at a time
and name it, then
use its name in a
complete sentence.
No sentence can use
“This is…” or any
simple construction.
When done with a
bag, groups can
trade.
nail clippers,
comb, paper
clip, rubber
band, key
ring, plug
adapter,
book mark,
fork, dice,
shoe horn,
match,
scotch tape,
stapler,
magnet,
magnifying
glass, flash
drive,
Velcro,
shoelace,
corkscrew,
etc.

133. Twenty Questions
A noun is secretly told to the
entire class. Then one student
is supposed to ask yes-or-no
questions in English to
different class members until
he guesses that
noun. He has 20
questions.

134. Learn new English words and discuss
stories from newspapers and
magazines in the first floor library.
Oil prices.
Weather.
Elections.
Eurovision.
Drought.

135. REMINDER: If a student gives an incorrect answer in
English, don’t supply the correct answer and don’t let
other students jump in and answer. Instead say,
Repeat that, please.
Or
That’s not quite right. Try again.
That gives him/her the chance to think about
and correct a mistake just as people do when
they make a mistake speaking their own
language.

136. Distant Learning
The expert or teacher can be anywhere there is Skype.
Students interact with distant speaker and students.

137. There are thousands of short videos on Vimeo
or Youtube that can be used to improve
listening skills, initiate student discussion or
practice pronunciation.
GENDER ISSUES
WORLD TRAVEL
WORK
EDUCATION

138. How Many Different Kinds of
Active Lessons Are There?
As Many as Creative
Teachers and Students
Can Think Of.

139. REVIEW
 Inspire your students
 Utilize the entire class period
 Teach actively
 Keep everyone involved
 Be creative with challenging lessons
 Be aware of students’ learning styles
 Speak English most of the time
 Control the seating in your classroom
 Test for understanding and progress

140. REVIEW
1. Classes should be student focused, not
teacher focused.
2. When only one student at a time recites, the
rest of the students are not always engaged.
3. Make sure the largest number of students are
involved during the majority of the period.
4. Don’t do any classroom work that your
students can do for you or themselves.

141. Who Needs the Experience Most,
You or the Students?
Students can and should:
 Hand out and take up papers.
 Grade simple homework.
 Prepare and/or bring in flashcards, quizzes,
word puzzles, relevant Youtube videos, etc.
 Write vocabulary or directions on the board.
 Bring in songs and lyrics to sing.
 Clip or copy news in English to use in class.

142. You’re Remembered Forever
Good teachers will always be remembered.
Their students will have learned to be:
 Altruistic
 Knowledgeable
 Skillful
 Reasonable
 Adaptable
 Curious
 Honest
 Independent
 Responsible
 Hard Working
 Respectful
 Good Citizens

143. THE SOUND OF A LANGUAGE

144. Remember to Teach Accents
Most unaccented English vowels
are pronounced UH, or in
phonetics, Ə (schwa, not the
Azerbaijani Ə).
For example, America is
pronounced əmerikə or
uh-MER-i-kuh.

145. Then to pronounce an
uh, or schwa,
open your mouth, relax
your tongue and make
a sound using your
vocal cords.
To make a G or K sound the tongue
presses against the roof at the back
of the mouth.

146. Pronounce this English word
putting the accent on the capital
letters:
ah-LAH-bahm-AH

147. ah-LAH-bahm-AH
With the right accents, it’s
pronounced:
AL-uh-BAM-uh
or
Alabama, a USA state

148. Concentrate on pronouncing
consonant sounds as well as vowel
sounds.
Can you read these two sentences?
Wht tm wll y g t schl tdy? Cll m bfr y lv yr
hm.
A ie i ou o o oo oa? A e eoe ou ie ou oe.
They’re the same sentence, one with
only the consonants and the other
with only vowels.

149. Difficult Sounds
V, GR, UH and I
PRACTICE EVERY DAY
Be very wary of the dog.
The tennis shoes fit her feet.
Please eat it before supper.
The grapes are great to eat.
He took the book home.

150. Problem Words
Listen (not leeson)
Vowel (not wowel)
Clothes (like close not cloth-ez)
Months (not month-ez)
Fit (not feet)
Great, Grapes,
Very, Well

151. Say kit, spit, if, lift, sit, lit, bit, pit,
fit, hit, mitt, knit, quit, flit, pit,
writ, zit, wit, listen and split.
Now try fun, run, ton, patron,
until, sun, bun, done, election,
carton, computer, gun, money,
enough, captain and medicine.

152. If a native English speaker asked
you to repeat a sentence one or
two times, that meant your
accent was strong enough to
cause confusion.

153. It’s Especially important for teachers to
practice pronunciation before each
vocabulary lesson.
“Monthez” for months has been passed
from teacher to future teacher to
students.
http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=months

154. To pronounce
the V in very,
place your
upper teeth on
your lower lip.
To pronounce
W, as in wary,
shape your lips
into a tiny O.

155. Sing songs in English.

156. Get the Music & Sing
"Love Story“ by Taylor Swift
We were both young when I first saw you.
I close my eyes and the flashback starts:
I'm standing there on a balcony in summer air.
See the lights, see the party, the ball gowns.
See you make your way through the crowd
And say, "Hello,"
Little did I know...
That you were Romeo, you were throwing pebbles,
And my daddy said, "Stay away from Juliet"
And I was crying on the staircase
Begging you, "Please don't go"
And I said...
(Your students should love the Shakespeare allusions.)

157. Educational Goals

158. GOALS
 What are the educational and, especially,
English educational needs of the
community?
 What is the university’s purpose?
 What are the objectives of each
department?
 What are the objectives of each class?
 What are the teachers’ goals?
 What are the goals of the students at the
university?

159. Is the goal a diploma, a BA,
an MS, an MD or a PhD? Or is
it knowledge and
Skills? In American
we all this a
‘paper chase.’

160. TYPICAL GOALS
 Developing a lifelong love of learning.
 Gaining basic knowledge.
 Learning a set of practical skills.
 Mastering the student’s major subject.
 Acquiring the ability to use skills and
knowledge independently of professors
and institutions.
 Having the freedom, opportunity and
ability to be creative.
 Growing in honesty, altruism and fairness.

161. Scholars or practical citizens
Is the goal to make students scholars in an
area that that has a limited employment
market?
Is the goal to provide
students with the basic
tools and knowledge to
be productive, creative,
independent and/or
prosperous citizens?

162. Are the girls more worried about how they
look (cosmetics, hair, jewelry and clothes)
than how well educated they are?
Are the boys more concerned with how
much prowess they have (vehicles, muscles
and athletic skills) than how intelligent they
are?
OF COURSE, IT’S MATING SEASON!
Are the students’ goals superficial or
deep? Are cell phones more
important than education?

163. Did your parents make you sit at a desk
quietly and give you a grammar book
and a vocabulary list when you were a
baby? Did they send you to a tutor?
NO!
You listened, imitated and learned a
language in two years—that was three
or four years before you ever went to
school. You were less than one year old!
What’s the Secret?

164. Downplay
Scholarly Grammar Memorization
and
Spend
More Time
on Practical
Speaking and Writing
The Error in Teaching English in
America was:

165. Guess What?
Teachers discovered that they were
teaching students to HATE English class.
They realized that only one out of 10,000
might become a paid grammarian.

166. Instead of teaching grammar rules,
Practice with Grammatical Patterns
1--I am___ Young, old, tired, sleepy, busy,
working, going to town, looking for my book,
playing soccer, talking to my friends, etc.
2--Help me find___ a pencil, a book store, a
bus to work, the stadiu, etc.
3--I ___ to____ like, don’t like, want, need,
etc. Study, read, swim, take a walk, etc.
4--Where is the____? Market, shoe store,
doctor’s office, hotel, bus stop, etc.

167. 5--How is___? your mother, his friend, the
language course, the dolma, etc.
6--How do you use___? a credit car, the
map, this ATM, this cell phone, etc.
7--The___is___the___. Pencil, pen,
book…in, on, under …cabinet, box, etc.
8--I gave the___to____ Book, pencil,
phone number Javid, him, her, etc.
Now have students use their own words in
each pattern and introduce students to new
patterns.

168. Wisdom from the Past
Use small groups to discuss and explain what
the following quotations mean to them.

169. 1. “Those who Know they do not Know that to
Know is to Know what they do not Know!
-- (Aveccina) Ali Sina
2. “You don’t need fancy highbrow traditions or
money to really learn. You just need people
with the desire to better themselves.”
– Adam Cooper and Bill Collage
3. It is possible to store the mind with a million
facts and still be entirely uneducated.
–Alec Bourne

170. 1. “Education without values, as useful as it is,
seems rather to make man a more clever
devil.”
― C.S. Lewis
2. “No man who worships education has got the
best out of education... Without a gentle
contempt for education no man's education is
complete.”
― G.K. Chesterton
3. “What a school thinks about its library is a
measure of what it feels about education.”
― Harold Howe

171. 1. "Liberty without learning is always in peril;
and learning without liberty is always in
vain.” –John F. Kennedy
2. A person who won't read has no advantage
over one who can't read. ― Mark Twain
3. “The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a
fire to be kindled.” ― Plutarch
4. “Children must be taught how to think, not
what to think.” ― Margaret Mead

172. 1. “To educate a person in the mind but not in
morals is to educate a menace to society.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
2. “You educate a man; you educate a man.
You educate a woman; you educate a
generation.”
― Brigham Young
3. “Students remember what they think and
say in class better than what they hear the
teacher say.” –Joel H. Robbins

173. 1. The ultimate goal of the educational system is
to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing
his education.
--John W. Gardner
2. Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not
remember. Involve me, and I'll understand.
--Native American Saying
3. What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
--Alfred Mercier

174. 1. Bilməmək ayιb deyil, soruşmamaq ayιbdιr.
–Azeri Proverb
2. "It's not shameful not to know, but it's
shameful not to ask." –Azeri Proverb
3. Knowledge is not what is memorized.
Knowledge is what benefits.- Imam Shafi‘
4. Bir ǝldǝ iki qarpιz tutmaq olmaz. –Azeri
Proverb

175. 1. “Well, one never really thinks about what one
has done, only what is to be done.” --Madame
Curie
2. “Yesterday’s glory is past. You're only as good
as you are today.”
3. “As a professor, I was paid to spew out as
many facts as possible. That’s what the
university’s model has been for a thousand
years.” Since “facts” change, starting from
ignorance is a better approach in science.--
Stuart Firestein

176. Searching for
Learning Projects

177. Other Ideas
 Talent show to feature poem recitations, skits,
dialogues, monologues and songs in English.
 Discussion Forum—An article or guest speaker
highlights an educational, business or social
philosophy and then the group discusses it in
English.
 Volunteer Projects related to promoting speaking
and writing in English in area public schools.
 English essay and poetry writing contest. Peace
Corps’ Trans-Caucasus Writing Contest.
 Speech, Debate, Book, Movie or Drama club.
 Academic Competitions—local and city-wide.

178. Venn Charting
Individual or
pair work for
any subject.
Students gain
understanding
of a subject
by finding
how aspects
of a situation
are related or
varied?

179. Use Venn Charting for Conflict
Resolution
Chart the:
 Problem
 Causes
 Reasons why no
resolution has been
reached
 Where the two sides
agree
 Brainstorm solutions

180. Mapping with Brainstorming
Mapping is
useful when
students
need to
narrow their
topic for an
essay.
It also helps
them to
discover their
subtopics.

181. THE END
(really the beginning)
Prepared
by
Joel Robbins
Peace Corps Response Volunteer 2012
for
The English Language and Literature Department
Calvin Tiessen, Chair
Khazar University
Hamlet Isaxanli, founder