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A Crash Course

A Crash Course. Some ideas for adapting reading and listening activities Helen Chapman. Reading Activities. Jump the line Give students key words from the text to predict content Reading race with questions about the text Photocopy , cut up and students order

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A Crash Course

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  1. A CrashCourse Some ideas foradaptingreading and listeningactivities Helen Chapman

  2. Reading Activities • Jumpthe line • Givestudentskeywordsfromthetexttopredictcontent • Reading racewithquestionsaboutthetext • Photocopy, cut up and studentsorder • Multiplechoiceoptionsblankedout • Multiplechoiceoptionsallocatedtodifferentgroups • Blankout target vocabularyorstructures • Doctor a text

  3. Experience: I savedtwolives

  4. Liz Howlong has shebeensnowboarding? “Ifyouwantto be a snowboarder….” Injuries? The ratio of maletofemalesnowboarders? Money? Recommendationsforgirlswhowantto snowboard? Whydoesshealso do modellingwork?

  5. ListeningActivities • Focusonflashcard/ imagetopredictthecontent • Runningdictationwithquestions • Listen and raisehandswhencertainvocabulary/stuctures are heard • Highlighttapescriptafterlistening (foranswers, target language, etc.) • Students listen first and onlywritethestressedwords, then do feedback in groups • Difficult, mediumoreasy

  6. PresentPerfect OXO • I´venever ____________________. • She´s __________________________ allmorning. • Where´s Oliver? He´s ___________________. • We´ve ____________________ Andalucia for two years. • I´ve ______________________________________ a book in English. I´m really enjoying it. • My little brother is __________________ me mad! • I ______________ all the Harry Potter books. • I ___________ to Seville yesterday. • Helen has never __________________ a car.

  7. Someother ideas… • Dialogue strips. Written in pairs, thenotherstudentsmust re-order • Grammar/ vocabulary OXO • After a writinghomework ,oranexam, prepare sentencescontainingtheerrorsthestudentsmade. In thenextclass, studentscorrecttheerrors in pairs • Place betsonanswersduringfeedback • Time activitieswith a stopclock • Play music duringspeakingactivities, warmers, orreadingforgist • Putthenames of students in a hat, choose at randomtonominatewhichstudentanswers a question • Describingflashcards back to back, drawingyourpartnerscard • Pelmanisn • Back totheboard • Use hangmanto introduce a topic , revise vocabularyor as a filler

  8. A bigthankyoutoeveryone atIH HuelvaAcademia Británica

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