Issue 14 - Winter 2007

Other Issues

   

VTTN news

Ha Tinh VTTN Trainers - On the move each month

VTTN Provincial Workshops - July/August 2007

  Receptive Skills - An overview
 

Writing your own questions for receptive skills lessons

  The before stage
 

Practical activities for the 'before' stage

  Practical activities for the 'during' stage
 

Practical activities for the 'after' stage

  Language focus activities
  Further language focus activities
 

'Interesting Facts' - a listening activity

VTTN ELT Methodology Quiz

VTTN Resources

VTTN provincial contacts



Teachers in Phu Tho


 



Language focus activities

Some ideas for teaching Language Focus lessons from the New Tieng Anh 10 & 11
You, our readers, told us that you found teaching the Language Focus lessons from the the new Tieng Anh 10 and 11 difficult. Here are two pages of ideas that will help you. On this page the ideas are simpler and closer to what is in the book. On page 16 the ideas are more communicative and interactive. We hope you like them.


General tips

• Assign some exercises for homework and feedback at the beginning of the next lesson.

• Some exercises can be done in the form of a 15 minute test.

• Some can be cut if there are two exercises covering the same grammatical points.

• Assign groups different tasks and then get them to compare with another group or get another group to peer check the answers.

• Pronunciation can be done in other lessons. It can be done as a warmer or you can focus on the pronunciation of new words as they come up as a more natural approach to pronunciation.


Make tasks easier by breaking into simpler steps

Example 1: Exercise 3 – page 111, Tieng Anh 10
1. Make sure students understand the meaning of the words.
2. Ask them which verbs go into which spaces.
3. Ask them to put verbs into correct forms.

Example 2: Exercise 3- page 131, Tieng Anh 10
1. Ask students to look at the answers and say the question word for each sentence.
2. Elicit feedback.
3. Ask them to think about the tense of each sentence.
4. Elicit feedback and ask them to write the full questions.


An inductive approach

Example: Exercise 1 - page 64, Tieng Anh 11
1. Ask students to look at the model sentence
- “Keep quiet,” the teacher said to us.
- The teacher told us to keep quiet.
2. Do question 1 with them as a demonstration.
3. Then ask them to do the same with the rest.
4. When they have finished provide them with the correct answers.
5. Finally, get them to have a look at the correct sentences and tell you the grammar rules of reported speech.
NB: We are often only reminding students or revising grammar, so this approach is often very useful!


Tasks for different groups

Example: Exercise 2- page 65, Tieng Anh 11
1. Divide the class into groups of 4.
2. Give each group 4 direct sentences and 4 reporting verbs (taken from the text book).
3. Ask them to match the sentences with the verbs.
4. Feed back to the whole class.
5. Ask each group to write sentences in speech for their 4 sentences.
6. Feed back.
7. Ask groups to swap their direct sentences.
8. Ask each group to read out their direct sentences. Other groups have to read out the corresponding sentences in reported speech.

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