Speaking Activity

  The final stage of the lesson will be the activate and the activate phase is going to form the main speaking activity within the lesson. So, it's very very important that here, we do a good demonstration of what it is that we're expecting them to do, that we elicit the type of target language we're expecting them to produce from the activity. So, one way we could go around it is to, firstly, form pairs. Each pair is going to be given a card and onto that card they're going to write the country and a month. What the teacher can then do, just to add a little bit of spice to it, is to collect all of the cards and shuffle them around and then redistribute them to the pairs so that they get a card that doesn't have their country or their month on it. What they're then going to do is...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Du Quoin Illinois and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: 1. Overview of Unit 12 Unit 12 deals with the productive skills, speaking and writing, stating that writing is the most neglected skill in the TEFL world. The difference between accuracy activities and fluency activities is explained, then the controlled accuracy activity, the guided accuracy activity and fluency based activity described. Reasons why students can seem reluctant to speak are mentioned as well as techniques to encourage interaction. An example of and guidelines for a typical...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Dundalk Maryland and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: Unit 12 is about teaching productive skills; speaking and writing. Both these skills are used for the purpose of communication, although they may be substantially different. There is equal importance of accuracy and fluency in speaking skills. Creative Communication, Controlled Activity and Guided Activity make up the three basic types of speaking activity. How to encourage students to speak and interactive techniques were given in detail. Guidelines and a typical creative speaking lesson were...  [Read more]

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Check out tefl tesol about TESOL Hall Summit Louisiana and apply today to be certified to teach English abroad. You could also be interested in: This is how our TEFL graduates feel they have gained from their course, and how they plan to put into action what they learned: said: In this unit, i learned how to enhance teaching productive skills; Speaking and Writing including games To create actively involving class teacher needs to know how to apply the different speaking activity, i guess mostly controlled and guided activity should proceed Creative communication activity. This process demands careful planning in terms of student's ability and the classroom dynamics. My take is to be a holistic manager for the class from the set up to evaluation of the class activity....  [Read more]

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