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The circle game: You say and I listen

This type of activity lends itself to ımproving group cohesion through a cooperative or collaborative task involving listening and speaking.

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Drawing dictation is an activity adapted from Christopher Sion’s excellent: Recipes for Tired Teachers.

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Aim: To introduce and recycle simple lexis related to geometry in a project.
Level: Pre-int and higher.
Materials: The plan and key.
Time: For all stages, allow 180 minutes depending on how you exploit opportunities for recycling.

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In dictogloss, learners work in cooperative groups to recreate a text that has either been read aloud to the class by the teacher or presented as an audio recording.

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