creative teaching for uncreative teachers
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Creative teaching for uncreative teachers!
Catherine MorleyBritish Council Alcalá de Henares
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• Starting and finishing lessons• Using basic materials• Exploiting photos
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Starting lessons• Ball to recycle vocabulary / practise
questions• Three things that went well today• Vocabulary bag activities
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Starting lessons
How do YOU normally begin lessons? Tell a partner.
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/ˈdefnətli/
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/ɪmˈbærəsɪŋ/
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/ˈæŋkʃəs/
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/ˈsuːtˌkeɪs/
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/rɪˈlaɪəbl/
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/wɪəd/
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/ˈɒnɪst/
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/ˈkʌmftəbl/
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/ˌɒntrəprəˈnɜː/
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/səˈsaɪəti/
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Basic classroom materials – Mini-whiteboardsTip! For team games with MWBs, give each team a different colour pen and call them ‘the green team’ etc. Much easier to keep score!
• Phonemic script game
• Vocabulary quizzes
• Liven up grammar exercises (read out the sentences in a different order!)
• Collocation sentences
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Basic classroom materials – Mini-whiteboards
How do you / could you use MWBs in your lessons?
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A4 Magic Whiteboard
www.magicwhiteboard.co.uk
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Basic classroom materials – scraps of paper
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Basic classroom materials – Dice
• Elicit 6 topics – students throw a dice and speak for one minute
• 6 sentences / questions using a grammar structure that you want students to practise
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1. A food or drink you didn’t use to like (but you do now).
2. Something you used to do every day when you were 10 years old.
3. A hobby you used to have.
4. A school you used to go to.
5. Something your parents used to make you do that you didn’t like.
6. Something you didn’t use to like about your school.
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Basic classroom materials – scraps of paper /
dice
How do you / could you use scraps of paper / dice in your lessons?
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Photos
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Photos
She’s in her late 60s. She’s medium-height and overweight. She looks happy. She has long, grey hair.
She can’t be your sister because she doesn’t look like you.
She might be your friend because you’re having a drink together.
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Photos
Could you use students’ own mobile phones in your teaching context? If not, what are the alternatives?
What other activities can you think of using photos from students’ mobile phones?
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Photos
http://takeaphotoand.wordpress.com/
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Finishing lessons
Do you do anything special at the end of your lessons?
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Catherine Morley
thinkingenglishblog.wordpress.com
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