PSTDP Garanhuns Week 7

Line Up! (Ice Breaker) 1.By birthday month 2.# of years teaching

Objectives Agenda Participate and reflect the use of the CLT strategies including using a learning partner Discuss the benefits, challenges and strategies of large class sizes Think about your own classroom practices Practice numbers with –ty and - teen Ice Breaker and Warm Up: Line Up Fold Up Managing Large Classes Dictaglos Discussion Stations Traditional Games Pronunciation Practice –ty v -teen

Fold Up (Warm-up) Have you used music in your class? Do you speak English with your students? Have you used an ice breaker in your classes? Have you used pair work or group work in your classes? Is there any question you would like to ask.

Dictaglos: Level 1 1 st time: Listen only 2 nd time: Mark down vocabulary words you don’t know 3 rd and 4 th times: write it down Reconstruct with your learning partner Correct with a different color pen/pencil

Dictaglos: Does it meet the criteria? 1. Learners talk quite a bit 2. Participation is even 3. Motivation is high 4. Language is at an appropriate level 5. The objective of the activity is clear to learners.

What is a large class? What makes it feel like a large class?

Think/Pair/Share: With your partner Large Classes: What are the benefits? What works? What doesn’t work?

What are the benefits of having a large class? Many opinions and points of view Animation! Many groups

What does not work well with large classes? Little space Individual work Short time Noisy work Discipline Too much correcting Cell Phones Spme students are excluded Individual Attention

What does work well? Pictures Group tasks Pair Work Parties! Data Show and Internet Music Games Movies

Stations! Relax and watch! Match a challenge With a response Find answer sheet on The Wiki Discussion: Apply these Criteria of success to Sandra’s classroom Discussion Put in order of importance

How to start Be kind to yourself Analyze yourself in the classroom Practice here Choose a learning partner Start with one activity Start with one class Choose activities that take no prep Be a scientist Laugh if it doesn’t work Let’s start together …

Easy Traditional Games Hang Man Tic Tac Toe Simon Says Draw a Word Expanding Text – 1-3 words – Beginning or end of text Shrinking Text – Cut 1-3 words but stay grammatically correct. Phrasal Verbs: Argue with Hide from Look for Look forward to Patient with Get out of Forget about Content with

-teen v -ty /t/ in -teen /d/ in -ty Stress the –teen (we often forget)

Do you know facts about the US? 17/70 percent of smokers want to quit Approximately 17/70 percent of North Americans donate money Friday the 13/30 is considered an unlucky date. Around 15/50 percent of US citizens say that they are shy. About 14/40 percent of Florida’s population is born outside of the US.

Objectives Agenda Participate and reflect on miscellaneous CLT strategies Discuss the benefits, challenges and strategies of large class sizes Think about your own classroom practices Practice numbers with –ty and - teen Ice Breaker and Warm Up: Line Up Fold Up Managing Large Classes Dictaglos Discussion Stations Listening Activity Traditional Games Portfolio Task #3 Pronunciation Practice –ty v -teen

Credit Christina Chandler Webinar Session large-classes-tips-techniques-for-teachers- christina- 3-large-classes-tips-techniques-for-teachers- christina- Speaking in Crowds: Oral Activities for Large Classes With Few Resources Susan Donnelly Renaud, Elizabeth Tannenbaum, and Michael Jerald Five-Minute Activities: A resource book of short activities Penny Ur and Andrew Wright

Thank your learning partner!

Next class: July 28th