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4. Rachael Kessler: “The Soul of Education”
青少年的七大需求
Personal Belonging
Silence and Solitude
Reflections on Life
Joy and Play Creativity
Linking to the Large Shape the Passages
6. ❖ Give students a flood of comprehensible input (interpretive), but keep the
focus on the meaning (content), not on the vocabulary and grammar.
❖ “Drag” vocabulary and grammar along as you give them the input. Your
(hidden) goal is to have them learn the vocabulary and grammar, but they
will learn it better if it feels to them like the goal is related to the content.
❖ It is almost like you’re “tricking” the students into learning the
vocabulary/grammar.
❖ One strategy is to give them “test” at the end, but test is on the content,
not on the vocabulary or grammar.
❖ After the input flood phase, move to communicative activities.
Input Flood
7. 背景知识
❖ They all know their numbers well.
❖ They have had one lesson on telling time, simply using a clock.
(http://www.time-for-time.com/swf/myclox.swf)
❖ They don’t know any of the verbs I will use.
方法
❖ Ask them to take notes on content as they’re listening. Don’t tell them to
listen for time words. Let this happen naturally.
❖ Tell them there will be a test afterward. You can make this playful.
❖ As you’re reviewing slides, don’t make a big deal about the times, but repeat
them in the sentences a lot of times.
❖ Add fun, interesting things about the pictures along the way. Banter with the
students about each photograph. Use your expressions and body language
to keep it engaging.
15. 虚假考试
❖ Have students work in pairs. Give each pair a set of the photographs in the
slides. When you ask the test question, they hold up the correct photograph.
You are not requiring them to produce the action words. Mime each action as
needed, so they don’t even need to understand the action words totally.
❖ Sample questions:
❖ What did Gaelan do at 7:20？(Students hold up photograph of Gaelan brushing
teeth.)
❖ What did Gaelan do at 7:45？(Students hold up picture of Gaelan eating
breakfast.)
❖ Note: I am not asking “What time did Gaelan do…” questions. The focus is on
the activities, not the times.
❖ Students think they’re being tested on the action words, but really you’re helping
them to acquire the language used to tell time. They learn the time words
because they need them to accomplish the task of remembering what Gaelan
did.
16. ❖ Students think they’re being tested on the action words (get up,
make the bed, brush teeth, get dressed, eat breakfast, leave for
school), but really you’re helping them to:
❖ Acquire the vocabulary needed to tell time.
❖ Acquire an understanding of where time words go in a
sentence.
❖ They hear many repetitions of these two things without feeling like
they are practicing.
❖ They are engaged in a real task, and it’s connected to them
because the pictures are of their teacher’s son.
Input Flood 的好处
18. • Put survey questions up on the board (a chart works well) and
review with students to make sure they all understand all of the
questions.
• Use a line-up or concentric circles to have each student interview
and be interviewed several times.
• As students are interviewing each other, roam the room, listen, and
facilitate. When needed, stop the entire class to make a
clarification, suggestion, or correction, and then keep going.
• Summarize by asking for show of hands and writing answers into
table. Discuss results.
调查
“通到内心的七扇门”
Think about 5 Cs, think about use of authentic materials, think about task-based learning, but in the context of what their 内心的需求。
Pass out handouts, show book.
探索内心生活、跟他人的关系、祖先的关系、与大自然的共鸣
My goal is for them to learn where time words go into a sentence, but I don’t tell them that….
