25. 1. When should you use individual ,pair or group work ?
2. Which of activities do you often do in your own class?
+ pattern practice
+ practising short dialogues
+ reading a text and answering questions
+ short writing exercises
+ discussions
3. Some ways of overcoming problems in pair work and group work ?
27. Individual Pair Group
Benefits their own pace,
and learning
styles
-chance to work
and learn
-interpersonal
learning
-opportunity for
practice,
-variety of activities
-creativity
Challenges don’t get the
benefit
Have to be
matched up well
must be carefully
selected to ensure
students can work
productively
When It Is
Suitable
final
tasks/assignment
Inductive
learning
activities
activities,
creativeness
28. 2. Which of activities do you often do in
your own class?
a. pattern practice
b. practising short dialogues
c. reading a text and answering questions
d. short writing exercises
e. discussions
30. b. Practising short dialogues
• Little chance to make mistakes
• Be done first in some pairs in front of class
• Then work in pairs
31. c. Reading a text and answering questions
• Discuss questions in pairs or groups
• Then read the text
OR
• Read the text individually
• Then ask and answer in pairs or groups
32. d. Short writing exercises
• Sit in groups and decide what to write ( one is
secretary )
• Correct each other’s mistakes
• Teacher only has a few paper to mark at the
end.
• Use pair work to correct written work
33. e. Grammar exercises
• Do orally in pairs
• Then check answers with whole class, and
students write the exercise for homework.
more interesting and productive than doing
alone , in silence.
34. 3. Some ways of
overcoming problems
in pair work and
group work ?
35. Noise
• “good” noise don’t worry
• Use L1 in the right way
• Ss are just disturbed by noises from next room
37. Difficult to control
• Give clear instructions (when to start,
what to do, when to stop)
• Give clearly defined tasks ( not too long
task)
• Set up a routine
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• Harmer, J. (2007). The Practice of English
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