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Group Work Activities

Group Work Activities. Olga Globina A teacher of English School 2, Vatutine, Cherkasy region. Group Work. Group work is a form of cooperative learning which aims to develop student's knowledge. Skills required for Group Work. Teamwork. Communication. Problem solving Time. Management.

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Group Work Activities

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  1. Group Work Activities Olga Globina A teacher of English School 2, Vatutine, Cherkasy region

  2. Group Work Group work is a form of cooperative learning which aims to develop student's knowledge

  3. Skills required for Group Work Teamwork Communication Problem solving Time Management Negotiation Delegation Leadership Co-operation

  4. Group Work Experience Making joint decisions Resolving conflicts Prediction Generalization Critical thinking

  5. Working in groups , students will gain competence in a wide range of skills • listening; • thinking; • speaking; • writing; • reading.

  6. Possible problems • Takes too much time • Less Content Coverage • Less Learning • Difficult to assess learning • Student resistance • Learning is a solitary practice • Students must be taught certain amount of information before they can work in groups

  7. Group Rules The sooner they are set and followed –the better interaction • We share ideas. • We take turns to speak. • We try to agree. • We respect other pupil’s ideas. • We listen to each other. • We involve everybody. • We don’t shout or get angry. • We talk one at a time • .

  8. Helpful questions to speakers Clarify: "What do you mean? How do you/we know that? Do we all think the same?

  9. Becoming an active listener Encouraging comments Eye contact Asking for classification Not rushing to fill sentences Not interrupting

  10. How to organize group work • Divide the class into groups • Make pupils familiar with their roles • Give the concrete tasks and instructions • Fix the time • Offer to report on the results • Evaluate the work

  11. Roles in Groups leader secretary group observer speaker

  12. Key Phases of Group Work

  13. Self - Evaluation

  14. Group work activities Brainstorming Role-play Discussion Competitions Games

  15. Team competition Let your pupils play this game and communicate with a smile! Add a letter Task : From each word bellow, make two new words by adding a letter at the end and at the beginning 1. go- 4. hear- -go -hear 2. oil- 5. hat- -oil -hat 3. arm- 6. not- -arm -not Answer key: 1. got, ago. 2. oily, boil. 3. army, farm. 4. heart, shear. 5. hate, that. 6. note, knot.

  16. Team competition Animals in hiding Task. Find the animals hiding in the following sentences. 1. That will be a real help. 2. She came late every day. 3. He came to America today. 4. Eric owes me ten cents. 5. We made errors in each one. 6. Do good workers succeed? 7. If I shout, he’ll hear me. 8. If Roger comes, we’ll begin. 9. We will go at two o’clock 10. Is it the sixth or seventh? • Answer key: • bear. 2. camel. 3. cat. 4. cow. 5. deer. 6. dog. 7.fish. • 8. frog. 9. goat. 10. horse.

  17. Team competition Simple arithmetic: ? + 1 = X Task: Add one or more letters before the word ONE to get the word defined. 1. ? + one = something that holds ice cream. 2. ? + one = part of a skeleton. 3. ? + one = no longer here. 4. ? + one = accomplished; finished. 5. ? + one = without anyone else present. 6. ? + one = a musical sound. 7. ? + one = a rock. 8. ? + one = a geographical region or area. 9. ? + one = an identical copy. 10. ? + one = a chair for a king or a queen. Answer key: 1. cone. 2. bone. 3. gone. 4. done. 5. alone. 6. tone. 7. stone. 8. zone. 9. clone. 10. throne.

  18. Team competition A code message Task: Can you “translate” this letter-code message into English words? Do it and make a four-line verse. YYUR YYUB ICUR YY4ME Answer key: Too wise you are, Too wise you be. I see you are Too wise for me

  19. Team competition The empty cupboard You may know the following nursery rhyme: Old Mother Hubbard Went to the cupboard To get her poor dog a bone. When she got there The cupboard was bare And so her poor dog had none. But what we are not told is that when she opened the cupboard door, Mrs. Hubbard exclaimed: OICURMT! Can you tell the meaning of what she said? (Hint: It is six words.) Answer key: Oh, I see you are empty!

  20. Reference 1.Методика навчання іноземних мов у середніх навчальних закладах / Ніколаєва С.Ю. та інші. - К. : Ленвіт, 1999. 2. Сучасні шкільні технології. Ч. / Упоряд. І. Рожнятовська, В. Зоц . – К.: Ред. загальнопед. газ., 2005. 3. Student’s Language Kit / Бірко Л.В., Пахомова Т.Г. – Черкаси, 2005. 4. Reference Guide for the Teacher of English. – К.: Ред. загальнопед. газ., 2005. 5. Лучин І. Уроки англійської мови – це уроки життя.// Іноземні мови в навчальних закладах, №4, 2009. 6. Thomas Kral. The Lighter Side of TEFL. – Washington , D. C., 2005 7. http://teaching.berkeley.edul 8. http://www.teaching.iub.edu 9. http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk 10. http://wiki.wsu.edu

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