Are you landslided by e-mail attachments ? Don't bin 'em", Yolanda Scott-Tennent, IX Jornades de Llengües Estrangeres, salou

1. E-mail
attachments ?
Don’t bin ‘em ! • Handout
IX Jornades Llengües Estrangeres a Tarragona
Novembre 2011
Yolanda Scott-Tennent
Why use them ?
• Economising teacher prep. time > ready prepared to use [computer,
beamer, etc.]
• If sent round, bound to be eye-catching / funny, or have message…
• Generally, quite short, frequently self-contained item/story.
Background resources
• Provide opportunities for
specific practice (e.g. grammar, reading and listening comp)
less controlled practice ( e.g. oral and written practice)
presentation/revision,etc. new topics /structures in engaging way.
• Usually “authentic” docs ( not adapted or abridged)
• Can be “spinned out” or be a sandwich, hors d’oeuvre, dessert or
treat.
Photograph Collections
• Beautiful photos • Choose one of the photos and
then use it as background
information for something else
• Travelling and colours
> to give students a new life
Topics
( like Mafia witnesses)
> to set the scene for an
• Action photographs event/story
> action photographs allow the
previous, but also add the
possibility of describing what’s
happening (with a huge
variety!)
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2. Art Clothes and physical description
The Amazing Art of Dali • Description • Ariston Aqualis • Clothes items,
(adjectives, modifiers, description
articles, prepositions,
Double vision • Wear/ suit/ match
position)
• Have on / put on/
Julia Beaver : Street Art take off ( simple
• Colours
phrasal verbs)
• Preferences
Vincent Van Gogh
My favourite..
• Physical description,
• Nespresso adjectives, adverbial
The one which/that
I prefer… to … clauses
Cultural events Food
• Carnival Jingle Bells? • Carl Warner • Eating and eating
Specific vocabulary
for each of them Foodscapes habits
• Art in the kitchen • Meal times
Traditions, routines,
what happens, what
people do • Danish Bacon • Cooking and recipes
Comparing different
ways of celebrating
Houses and rooms School and daily life
• Architecture • Description of • Exams • Routine
houses, rooms,
spaces, gardens.. • What I like
most/least…The thing
that …
• Murphy’s Law • Something I’m always
unlucky with/ I always
have problems with
Anecdotes
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3. Technology Work
• The Latest • Waterslide • Jobs/professions
• First, decide whether
the fact that
Spanish/Catalan • Would like to
appears on screen is be/have…
a problem for you
• Technology/gadgets/ • Obama and Brown • Comparing, clauses
of consequence
(so/such…that)
• Paradox of our Times • Comparative forms
• How to drive • Imperatives
• Children See • Modals
Grammar structures [should/shouldn’t/must,
etc.]
• The Black Hole
• Narrating
events;stories
• The Future of
Shopping • Future verb forms
• Budweiser ad • Present perfect • The Evolution of • Reminiscing; past
tense Dance tenses; “when” time
clauses
• Creative Publicity • The most
original….I’ve ever… • Cartoons of the 90’s
• Another budweiser ad • Why don’t we ?
Suggestions • Continuous vs simple
• Alarm clock forms to talk about
• Animals what is/was
• Painted Hands happening, “going to”
Colours • Office work
for predictions
Habits and routines
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4. • Don’t shorten your • Modals in the past :
name should/shouldn’t,
Jokes and humour
must
• Past tenses
• London 2012 • Tarragona 2017
Future tenses • So clause for result
or consequence
• Magic 1 • Passive voice/how • Structures used for
• Magic 2 things are done explaining/giving
reasons
• No Words (ads) • Infinite possibilities
• Present, • Position of
real or type “enough”
one
conditional
form
• Funny signs • Giving reasons >
what makes it funny
Listening Comprehension
reason for/because Practice
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5. • Social Media ( Hot Potatoes M/C
but can also create
short answer, Reading Comprehension
matching, putting in Practice
order, gap fill [cloze]
What about these ?
• I love this doctor
• Wear a band
• How to annoy your teacher
• My dream...
• Queen - promo
• I hope I have set your mind bubbling….
THANK YOU FOR COMING.
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