TweetIn this activity, students are divided into small groups and told that they are members of the governing legislature in a hypothetical American state. They want to reduce their population of prisoners while also not adding to the state’s budget. Students must work together to devise a plan using the information provided below. To generate [...]
TweetAttached below is a sample lesson plan I designed for teaching the present perfect tense. Of note is that the lesson focuses on a particular communicative task, not the target structure specifically. it is very important to provide students with a real communicative purpose for the structures they learn so that they will know when [...]
TweetFormat: Workshop Time: 45 minutes Title: “Negotiating Face and Making Requests: Speech Changes and Imposition” Target Students: Intermediate to advanced One of the most important skills our students learn is how to use language differently in different situations and with different people. Speeches are not like telephone conversations. Essays are not like newspaper articles. And [...]
TweetWhat is Pair and Group Work? Used in conjunction with individual and whole-class work, pair and group work is the act of dividing students so that they work cooperatively with only a small number of their classmates on a specific task assigned by their teacher. Pair and group work first came into usage in the [...]
TweetFormat: Workshop Time: 45 minutes Title: “Fun with Prosody: Creative Explorations of Intonation in English” Target Students: Low-intermediate to advanced, any age group Much of our communication involves the successful interpretation of intonation. Often, a listener who is a non-native speaker may understand every word of an utterance, but still misunderstands it because of a [...]
