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Strategies for listening, note taking and discussion

September 15, 2008 in EAP, curriculum, methodology, skills, word lists | No comments

These notes are based on a presentation given by Theresa Doğuelli University. The presentation was after sales service from Oxford University Press on the Lecture Ready series of academic English text books.

The aim of the book is strategy training and this was where Teresa began her presentation. The differences between a strategy, skill, plan and tactic were explored. One of the ideas that came out of the discussion was that a strategy is more flexible than a plan - leaving the learner the chioce of how to tackle the task rather than a less flexible and less adaptable plan. Read the rest of this entry »

Activity: vocabulary tennis

February 29, 2008 in Activities, skills, speaking, word lists | No comments

This is an activity that requires no setting up and can be done at the drop of a hat just the kind of activity that I love to have in my toolbox! Essentially, the idea is to promote automatization through quick responses, under moderately stressful conditions.

Aim: learners will recycle vocabulary and/or create short sentences under moderately stressful conditions.

Materials: none - don’t you just love it :) … Read the rest of this entry »

Recycling specific vocabulary: the vocabox

February 15, 2008 in Activities, vocabulary, word lists | No comments

The Vocabox

Activities for developing and activating vocabulary in the English classroom (the original idea came from Joanna Stirling July 2000 Bell Teacher Training Summerfest)

Introduction

One constantly hears of presenting this that and the other. In fact in some institutions, the word “present” seems to be repeated one hundred and one times more than the word “recycle”… Read the rest of this entry »

word lists

February 9, 2008 in Uncategorized, vocabulary, word lists | No comments

In order for learners to achieve the target 2000 words as quickly as possible, they will need a rich and nourishing vocabulary. Some words will be taught by the teacher and other words will be learnt incidentally in extensive reading and listening activities. Many learners prefer a list of target words to learn. How can these word lists be used to maximize learning? Read the rest of this entry »