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Cover some / all of the text – what’s missing?
Picture prompts
From you
From students
Pictionary
One person A, other B
T asks, students call out
S asks, partner/other students responds
T asks, students write on (mini) whiteboard(s) / in chat
S asks, partner / other students write
Memorisation challenge: how many can you
remember?
Freestyle
With A / B as a prompt
Evil memorisation (thanks to Olga Stolbova!)
Remembering new structures
Remembering new vocabulary
Drilling pronunciation
As revision
Increasing confidence
Increasing automaticity
Memorisation activities
What? Why?
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Some of the memorisation activities
Say all the sentences as quickly as possible
(AQAP!)
Key word drills e.g. ice cream, clouds…
Picture drills
Say them with different intonation/voices to
create different meanings/situations
Correct the mistakes (emphatic stress)
Remembering new structures
Remembering new vocabulary
Preparing for upcoming speaking
Increasing confidence
Increasing automaticity
Because we don’t normally do enough
pronunciation work!
Pronunciation activities
What? Why?
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Before they see it, T says A, they predict B
Remove the options
Teacher says first half of the sentence, pausing
at a convenient point. Students say second half.
Then in pairs. e.g. “Shall I…” “…turn on the
heating?”
Change A to the opposite/a slightly different
phrase. What’s an appropriate B? e.g. “I’m
boiling!”
Do it again, but…
Faster
With your book closed
With your eyes closed
A little struggle = deeper processing = retained
for longer
Chance to take risks
Sense of achievement
Differentiation
But…sometimes you might need to think about
removing challenge, not adding it!
Adding challenge
What? Why?
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Extend the conversations: what was said before /
after
Decide who/where/when/why it was said (by)
Take the ‘wrong’ answer and create a context
where it would be right
‘Banana’ sentences: replace the key words with
banana for your partner to give other ideas
Students have A sentences. They write their own
Bs on separate pieces of scrap paper, then mix
them up. Another pair tries to match the As and
Bs together
Deeper processing = retained for longer
Add context to language
Give students ownership of the
language
Pride: look what we made
Play!
Promote creativity
What? Why?
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Get students moving
Let students get to know each other
Give students more control
Increase student talking time
Increase student independence
Give yourself a break!
Changing interaction
What?
Gallery walk: questions stuck around room
Translation mingle: students translate one
conversation into L1. Then show translation to
others, who change it back to English
One group does 1-6/odd sentences. The other
does 7-12/even sentences. Give answers for the
other half. Peer check
Hot seat/Backs to the board with a (picture?)
prompt for student looking at the board to say
sentence A, person with back to the board says
sentence B in response
Board race (combined with other ideas!)
Why?
Ideas coming from you as much as me!
Mix of online and offline
Lots of the ideas might seem simple, but it’s good to be reminded that they don’t have to be complicated and students can get a lot out of them!
Wouldn’t expect you to use all of these ideas in a single lesson – pick and choose what would work for you
(30-35 minutes for session)
We’ll use this exercise as our starting point. First, let’s do the exercise, but listen carefully to the instructions (you can do it like this with your students)
Do the activity, questions 2-5, controlled by me with them writing in the chat.
Your ideas in chat
What do you remember?
We’ll use this exercise as our starting point. First, let’s do the exercise, but listen carefully to the instructions (you can do it like this with your students)
Do the activity, questions 2-5, controlled by me with them writing in the chat.
Your ideas in chat
Your ideas in chat
Your ideas in chat
Your ideas in chat
Ideas coming from you as much as me!
Mix of online and offline
Lots of the ideas might seem simple, but it’s good to be reminded that they don’t have to be complicated and students can get a lot out of them!
Wouldn’t expect you to use all of these ideas in a single lesson – pick and choose what would work for you
(30-35 minutes for session)