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Elspeth Pollock TESOL March 2013 B1toC2 Materials
B1 – C2 ideas for teaching exam classes
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Learner Autonomy:
SWOT questionnaires – repeat throughout the year
Learning Strategies questionnaires – take responsibility for progress
Course expectactions questionnaires
Reading: www.guardian.co.uk
Newspapers + Vocabulary in context – active / passive? www.independent.co.uk
Article analysis sheet www.nytimes.com
www.usatoday.com
Use of L1: Attitudes to use of L1 in class questionnaire
Student-‐made vocabulary tests Works in Spanish AND in English?
Noticing similarities and differences Idioms in L1 and L2
Translating song lyrics Back translation from reading texts + noticing afterwards
Collocation Dictionaries:
Find a better word for X Guess the word from its synonyms and usage
Explore a word through gap fills
Elspeth Pollock TESOL March 2013 B1toC2 Materials
Writing:
Draw a story – put pictures in order or guess which story is represented in the pictures
Write part of a composition in class in groups – beginning, middle or end and compare with the original
Composition dictogloss – reconstruct and compare with the original
Target Reader photos
Composition overview of task-‐type and analysis
Register – moving from formal – neutral – informal – language equivalents
Exam Technique:
Common words tested in gap fills Grass skirts – sentence transformations to throw away
Student-‐produced gap fills from reading texts Inversion
Darts – word formation on the IWB Word magnets www.triptico.net + great classroom uses
Speaking:
Student-‐made recordings and recorded teacher feedback
Board games – remember the phrasal verbs
Part 1 questions – ideas for how to use and improve
Listening:
Part 4 CAE listening – which task to do first?
Can songs help? – 15 different ways to prepare song lyrics then get your students to make them
Whatsapp?
Vocabulary:
How to record words – more than just 1 word A+B Vocab Ladders
Pictionary – make it work The importance of recycling
Dominoes Student-‐produced materials
Elspeth Pollock TESOL March 2013 B1toC2 Materials
Chimps’ Days in Labs May Be Dwindling By JAMES GORMAN (NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/15/science/chimps-days-in-research-may-be-near-an-end.html?_r=2&ref=science)
NEW IBERIA, La. — In a dome-shaped outdoor cage, a dozen chimpanzees are hooting. The hair on their shoulders sticks straight up. “That’s piloerection,” a sign of emotional arousal, says Dr. Dana Hasselschwert, head of veterinary sciences at the New Iberia Research Center. She tells a visitor to keep his distance. The chimps tend to throw pebbles — or worse — when they get excited.
Chimps’ similarity to humans makes them valuable for research, and at the same time inspires intense sympathy. To research scientists, they may look like the best chance to cure terrible diseases. But to many other people, they look like relatives behind bars.
Biomedical research on chimps helped produce a vaccine for hepatitis B, and is aimed at one for hepatitis C, which infects 170 million people worldwide, but there has long been an outcry against the research as cruel and unnecessary. Now, because of a major push by advocacy organizations, a decision to stop such research in the United States could come within a year. As it is, the United States is one of only two countries that conduct invasive research on chimpanzees. The other is the central African nation of Gabon.
FCE CPE
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Put the procedure in order for the dictogloss:
Elspeth Pollock TESOL March 2013 B1toC2 Materials
Different ways to prepare a song for class:
Which line of the song corresponds to which type of preparation?
1. Gap fill individual words and write definitions
2. Gap fill individual words and draw pictures
3. Gap fill individual words and give synonyms
4. Replace words with phonemic transcript
5. Replace words with Spanish equivalent
6. Replace phrases with Spanish equivalent
7. Take out certain words and replace with any old word
8. Take out words and put a choice at the bottom of the page / in brackets after the gap – with a couple of
extra words to confuse
9. Put letters of individual words out of order
10. Put words in a line of the song out of order
11. Put the different lines of a verse of the song out of order
LINE:
Now find a song you like and get the lyrics from the internet.
Make a listening worksheet for
the students in your class by using some or all of these ways
to prepare a song.
Elspeth Pollock TESOL March 2013 B1toC2 Materials
Adele – “rolling in the deep”
1. There’s a fire starting in my heart 2. Reaching a fever ______, (witch / pitch
/ which / ditch) 3. it’s bringing me out the park 4. Finally I can see you crystal clear 5. Go ahead and sell me out 6. and I'll lay your shit bare
7. See how I leave with every piece of
you 8. Don’t underestimate the things that I
will do
9. There’s a fire starting in my _____ 10. Reaching a fever pitch 11. And its bring me out the dark
12. The scars of your love remind me of us 13. They keep me thinking that we almost
had it all 14. The scars of your love they leave me
_____________ (without air – adj.) 15. I can’t help feeling 16. We could have had it all 17. Rolling in the deep 18. hand You inside my of heart your had 19. And you played it 20. To the beat
21. Baby I have no story to be told 22. But I’ve heard one of you 23. And I’m gonna make your head burn 24. Think of me in the depths of your
srpdaei 25. Making a home down there
26. It reminds you of the home we shared
27. Las cicatrices de tu amor me recuerdan a nosotros
28. They keep me thinking that we almost had it all
29. The _______ /ska:z/ of your love they leave me breathless
30. I can’t help feeling 31. We could have had it all 32. Rolling in the deep 33. You had my heart inside of your hand 34. And you played it 35. To the beat
Repeat Chorus
36. Turned my ________ (tristeza) into treasured gold
37. You pay me back in kind and reap just what you sow
38. Count your blessings to find what you look for
39. Throw your soul through every open door
40. We could have had it all 41. We could have had it all 42. It all, it all it all, 43. We _______ (might) have had it all 44. Rolling in the deep 45. You had my heart inside of your hand 46. And you played it 47. To the beat
