Week 12: Family/Friends
Santa's Teacher Hub helper was a little delayed
last week. Happy Monday!
Last Days of Class!
Here
are some Party
Time suggestions for the 2nd half of class:
· English only :)
·
Mingle and chat! Prepare conversation cards: In a word doc
table (or by hand), write down 20 questions (if you have 20 students, 1 per
student). Explain instructions well
first. Have Ss repeat instructions.
Each student gets 1 question. Ss mingle,
find a partner. Talk about your questions. (T can set a time limit, i.e. 2 min)
Exchange your questions. Find a new partner. Talk some more. Repeat. (Include some fun questions –Who’s better: Superman or Batman? Why?)
·
Grab it! A fun activity with a song!
Explain
instructions well first. Have Ss repeat instructions.
Form groups of 3-4 students. All Ss should sit closely together.
Cut out one set of 9 expressions from the song for each group. Place the nine words so that
all Ss in the group can reach them easily.
Listen to the song (Ss don’t see lyrics)
Before you listen, ask Ss to: Grab it! ... when you hear the word! (Demonstrate)
Who grabs it first?
Ss grab until all words have been taken and there is a winner.
Then
listen to the song again (with lyrics): Everybody sing along!
Two songs
around the topic of Family are prepared
on the “Songs” page of the Family wiki:
We are
Family! (Sister Slege) (Beginner/Intermediate)
and That’s What Friends are for (Dionne Warwick)
(Intermediate/Advanced)
If you have any questions about these activcities (if the instructions were not clear:)
please email Elke.
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Four-skills activities for TABE Reader texts
Can also be applied to other TABE Reader Stories - or other texts in the future
If you want to check out the "A Matter of Taste" Story, it's on the food Wiki:
I did
this activity with the TABE D Reader Story “A Matter of Taste” last week. I
modifed activities to have a focus on either speaking/listening or reading
writing, and it worked well with advanced ESOL and ABE students.
We also
learned a few things:
From the
text: Babies have more taste buds than adults.
From
online research: We learned in school that there are four tastes: sweet,
salty, sour, and bitter. There is a fifth taste: Umani! It’s anything that
does not taste sweet, salty, sour or bitter, for example Parmesan cheese.
Interesting.
Elke
1.
Pre-teach select vocabulary (5-7 words or
expressions)
2.
Have a text-topic related pre-reading question.
Discuss with a partner or in small groups. (We talked about “5 foods you don’t
like” and why - lead into cultural differences)
Reading for gist: Ss read the first paragraph silently. Ask Ss to
write down unknown words and 2 things they find interesting. Share with
class. Write bullet points on board.
4.
Repeat with the next 1-2 paragraphs.
5.
Teacher reads one shorter paragraph aloud, Ss read
along silently.
6.
For 2 paragraphs of similar length: Ask ½ of the
students to read paragraph A and the other half to read paragraph B. (Best to
cover the paragraph they're not supposed to read). As they read, Ss take notes
about the paragraph.
7.
Each Paragraph A student finds a Paragraph B
student. Ss tell each other about their paragraph, looking only at their
notes, not at the text.
8.
Create a cloze exercise with sentences from the
text. ½ of the students get sentences, ½ get words. Ss who find their partner
first talk about their statement.
(If you would like the cloze exercise for "A Matter of Taste", email Elke).
9.
Ss sit down with their new partner.
10. Reading for detail: Find your sentence in the text. Then brainstorm together: What do you think the 10 healthiest foods are? What do they taste like? Make a list.
11. Ss compare their lists with other students' lists. The whole class works on creating a Top Ten Healthy Foods list the whole class agrees on. (Ss write on board.) We had a Top Ten list plus 8 runners-up :)
12. What the watchmojo.com 10 Healthiest Foods video. (watchmojo has a lot of good Top Ten videos.) As Ss watch, they write down the 10 foods and one piece of info about each one. Whole class feedback.
13. Compare 10 video foods with class list.
14. Ss and T choose 3 healthy foods they want to eat more often in the future.
15. Homework: ESOL: Interview friends and family about what food they like.
ABE: Write about your favorite foods. When did you first eat them? Why do you like them? How often do you eat them?
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I WANT YOU TO...
GIVE INSTRUCTIONS
"I want you to... (do this)" prefaces a lot of classroom instructions.
Why use this phrase, though?
(CELTA discusses this in teacher training.)
Would you use it when talking with an equal or someone in a higher position than you? Probably not. Would you use it when talking to a child? Probably yes.
Instead, you could try saying this:
“Please read page 2.”
“Please find a partner.”
"Could you... (do this?)"
WANT TO TRY THIS ? :)
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PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
The NYS
Tesol 2017 Applied Linguistics Winter Conference will be on the first weekend
of April. Check the website for updates and proposal details soon:
 
Both the
NYS and the “big” TESOL website are always worth checking out for events and
resources:
Do you know this one?
You can
sign up for free to access more info on the site or become a member.
If you’re
interested in becoming involved with TESOL’s VDMIS (Video and Digital Media
Interest Section), please email Elke.
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Something a little different for your time off...
Perhaps you would be interested in reading or contributing to The Font,
a literary journal for language teachers. Check it out here: The Font Journal
SHOW
US THE LOVE!
What would you like to see on the blog in Winter 2017?
Would you like to contribute something? A
link, teaching tip, other?
Have
a great last week of class and HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
Elizabeth & Elke
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