Teacher Training Session with Dede Wilson, Manchester June 2013

Let’s TalkCommunicate in

Chinese

Dede Wilson

Having fun is a serious business

Taking it off the page

Clear aimsLearner styles and

expectations

Warmers, fillers & coolers

For the in-between moments

Stand up if…..Opportunity to listen and respondReminding/revising of language learntMotivating, confidence building startPunctuality motivator


Shaking hands

Student question: Fun, but

why?


AimsWhat? How? Why?

AssumptionsWhat students know

What they need to know


Door window


Ping pong numbers


Using coursebooks

Teachers need themStudents need them

Why?

Doctors and Nurses

Receptive skills

Sports Ways to describe

Facilitate – personalize Teaching vocabulary Use student knowledge

Brainstorm

Set active listening tasks

Recognition tasks: true false; order number; sequence; tick; wrong wordPrediction tasks – use student life knowledge of context

FeedbackCheck in pairs first

Listen/read again, elicit answers

Use questions

Students ask and answer

Elicit reasons

Types of Listening

Listening to each other

Listening to each other

Name Sport Reason

Memory v Listening

Listening in a foreign language

Difficult to concentrate on every word Anxious Nervous and worried Trying to guess what’s coming next Want to ask questions and take notes when you miss something

Listening problems

1. Unfamiliar, strange- resistance

2. Noise

3. Too fast and too many words

4. Recognition – vocabulary – pronunciation

Listening solutions

Pre-teach key vocabulary/ pronunciation

Facilitate – simplify

Make it visual

Make it active

Make it familiar

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Teacher Training Session with Dede Wilson, Manchester June 2013

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