1. Tools for effective coursebook
supplementation
IX Jornades de Llengües Estrangeres
Fernando Romeu Esquerré – EOI de Tortosa – fromeu@xtec.cat
2. Notes, tutorials and example files:
http://www.elteaching.com
Password: icteacher
Email: fromeu@xtec.cat
School: EOI de Tortosa
3. The teacher as a decision-maker.
Communicative power
Input and feedback
Content recycling
Balanced skill practice
Activities / tasks
4. Adaptation to our teaching context in terms of
Content: supplementation, replacement …
Skills practice: supplementation or modification
Class management: input, feedback, grouping, timing…
5. TRADITIONAL RECENT
Slideshows
Handouts
IWB
Blackboard
Interactive
OHP
DVD/Web
6. TRADITIONAL
RECENT
Tried-and-tested Quick
Time-consuming Cheap
Expensive Modifiable
9. Increasing opportunities to practice
Vocabulary revision / expansion
Checking understanding
Connecting to the real world
10. Pictures to activate background knowledge
Pronunciation examples to move to “listen and repeat”
Balance grouping options
11. Revising structures and content
Linguistic and conceptual input for activities
Meaningful transition between activities
12. Recycling content
Creating new activity types
Fostering attention to detail
Different grouping options
Review /Beginning / End of a session
Sports
13. Avoiding repetition
Little time, maximum understanding
Focusing attention
Creating habits
Sharazad
14. Staging
Highlighting key words
Quick and effective correction
Opportunity to combine speaking and listening
Bikes
15. Visual input
Integrating writing as a classroom activity
Opportunity for collaborative writing
Error correction
Crime – Error correction
16. Digital music store
Activity choice
More than just fun
Fostering understanding
Luca – Welcome to my life