centennial college teaching speakng workshop
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A 3 hour presentation at Centennial College in Toronto. The workshop showcased the English Phonetic Alphabet (EPA) and Thompson Vowel Chart. It included handouts and in-class exercises for teachers of EAP, ESL and International Students.TRANSCRIPT
Teaching SpeakingCentennial CollegeJudy Thompson
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish and you feed him for alifetime.
Agenda
1. English – what’s broken and what’s missing
2. The six point guide to spoken English3. Techniques for teaching speaking4. Classroom exercises
Information Doesn’t Make a Difference
1. Information – Lesson2. Exercises – Practice 3. Transformation - Experience of success
with the new information
Rita Baker – BRAIN POWER80% of our brains are interneurons whose
job is to find patterns and use them
X Ray of the Fracture
You Are Here
Pattern Teaching Techniques
1. Is it always true?2. Attach new ideas to information students
already know, “You know this already.”3. Create a successful experience of the new
information – transformation
Ask me about videos
The Six PointsWhat is most valuable for you to do
today? Basic – CLB 1-31. 40 Sounds - English Phonetic Alphabet
(EPA) 2. Words - Stress-based language 3. Sentences - Content words Advanced – CLB 4+4. Linking - words start with consonants5. Expressions – English is idiomatic6. Body language – 80% of the message
1A – Phonetic Alphabet
_ b _ d _ f g h _ j k l m n _ p _ r s t _ v w _y z
/Sh/ - shoe, sugar, nation, machine/Ch/ - church, cello, picture/TH/ - thing, thank, both, teeth/Th/ - the, them, these, mother, brother/Ng/ - singing, pink/Zh/ - Asia, garage, usual, Taj Mahal
* Past Tense and Listening Skills Exercises
1B - EPA Vowels•The first thing people learn in a new
language is the names of the colors
•Inside the names of 16 common colors in English are the 16 vowel sounds of English
•Students learn the colors of words and crazy English spelling is no longer a barrier to confident speaking
* Listening Skills, Olive Maze, Word Search
Everything is in the Color Chart
•Vowel sounds in an easy logical format•Bridge to pronunciation from spelling•Access to spelling from listening•Priority - All vowel sounds are NOT
equally difficult they’re missing short vowels and Purple
•Word stress dictates the word color•Linking is in the letters
Words
*What color is your name?
•Stress-based language•Elastic bands•Every word is a color•Accents don’t matter•Use their names first
Every word in English is a color on that one page.
Sentences
•Some words are important and some are not
•Pablo’s Story – * context for students•Grammar doesn’t matter when you are
speaking
* Wolves Eat Sheep
Advanced (Fluency)
(Keep asking me how to attach this to information they already know) *ABC… EPA Vowel Chart
Linkingc-cc-vv-v
Listening tool – not for students to master
Three Predictable Places
1. Consonant Consonantbus _ stop bu stop
2. Consonant Vowelturn _ off tur noff
3. Vowel Vowelgo _ away go waway
All Words Start with Consonants
Can I have a bit of egg
ca ni ha va bi da vegg* Titanic Song, ABC
ExpressionsGrass is Black
Teacher Judy’s Sound Dictionary App
Sound Dictionary App
•Colors provide the bridge from reading to pronunciation
AND BACK •Colors provide the bridge from listening
to spelling
Big Finish
•www.englishphoneticalphabet.pbworks.com
•Sneak peak at the new posters •Thompson Language Center YouTube
Channel•Teacher Judy’s Sound Dictionary app•Speaking Test app – accent/intelligibility
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