Get Your Students Talking Presented by 應惠蕙

Who Am I? 學歷：國立台灣師範大學英語系、英語研究所畢 業； 經歷：曾任教於台北縣立海山國中 目前任教於國立新竹女中； 2004 年當選新竹市 power teacher; 2004 年獲選教育部中小學教師出國研習赴美進修 四個月，研究中小學網路英語教學； 2005 年於第二屆全國英文高中研討會發表 Ways to Teach Writing ；

Who Am I? 2009 年於第六屆全國英文高中研討會發表 Integrate Four Skills into Picture Books D. I. Y.; 2010 年參加英文學科中心思考性教學教案發表 ; 教科書編輯 15 年經驗，曾參與謝國平教授主編之高職英 文教科書、五專英文教科書、高中英文教科書；宋美華 教授主編之高中英文教科書 ; 陳凌霞教授主編之英文教 科書 ; 車蓓群教授主編之高中英文教科書。 著有：單字書 Vocabulary 4000, Vocabulary 4001~7000 ， 單字 4000 、 7000 實戰題本，英文文法，英文文法應用解 析及英文聽力測驗 (1~6) 等書。

Difficulties Students refuse to talk or barely talk. Some students do the talking all the time. Some students speak Chinese instead of English. Students pay no attention while other students are talking. There is not enough time for every group to present. It’s not easy to evaluate students’ performance in an objective way. It’s not easy to run activities smoothly.

How to get students talking Provide them with opportunities. Apply as many various activities as possible. Wait. Force them to speak. Give them rewards. Set time limit.

How to keep students speaking English Cop/observer/commentator/evaluator Pins Take turns Give me Ten

How to divide students into groups Randomly? It depends on different activities. Students form groups by themselves. According to their English speaking ability. Assign students roles: discussion leader, reader, recorder, spokesman, commentator, etc. Take turns.

How to evaluate students’ performance It depends. Self-evaluation Peer-evaluation Evaluation rubric

Basic Activities (1) Read aloud Readers Theater Give me Ten Charade Student Interviews: Introducing student to each other/Express opinions Who Wants a…?: Convincing

Basic Activities (2) Three Picture Stories The newspaper headline activity Vocabulary-building skits The Expert game I’ve Never… Dave’s ESL Café Ideas Cookbook Three Picture Stories The newspaper headline activity Vocabulary-building skits The Expert game I’ve Never… Dave’s ESL Café Ideas Cookbook

Text-Related Activities (1) Warm up: B2U7B2U7 Vocabulary Word spinning Sentence making Charade Students teach by themselves Making predictions

B2 U7 No More Wars Between Venus and Mars boys girls gender differences

Text-Related Activities (2) Making up stories Chain stories Sentence pattern: 1, 212 Discussion Listening One-minute report Continue the story

Text-Related Activities (3) Change point of view Write a conversation Culture fair PowerPoint presentation Project Picture book

Text-Related Activities (4) Dub Sharing opinions Debate Games Funfest video

Internet-related Activities A.L.I.C.E Producer 3D PhotoFace: My Talking Faces 3D PhotoFace Decisions, Decisions Make Beliefs Comix

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