One teacher's reflections on English as a foreign language
Posted in American Studies, Lessons/Materials, Speaking, Teaching Reading on Apr 4th, 2010
In 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 [...]
Posted in Speaking, Teaching Reading, Teaching Writing, Video on Mar 31st, 2010
Posted in Lessons/Materials, Speaking, Uncategorized on Nov 21st, 2009
Attached 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 [...]
Posted in Abstracts/Presentations, Speaking on Nov 10th, 2009
What 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 [...]
Posted in Abstracts/Presentations, Speaking, Teaching Culture on Nov 8th, 2009
Format: 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 [...]