UTILIZING IMAGES, POWERPOINT AND VIDEO for COMMUNICATIVE TASKS By Irma Qiria and Maka Kitia

+ What are benefits of visual aids?

+ Benefits of Visual Aids Function for learning more effectively Helps students use visual capacity Stimulates thinking Increases students interest in a subject Helps students become more engaged in their own learning Reinforces the material learnt Emphasizes a point

+ What communicative tasks based on visual aids have you used with your students ?

+ Tasks Describing pictures Retelling a story according to a set of images Reporting speech provided in a video Making up a dialogue Discussing the facts and events Predicting Role Play

+ Advice Game (Maka Kitia Version)

+ Video Based Discussion-Role Play ( Irma Qiria Version )

+ I’m just a Bill

+ QUESTION 1 What is an idea you would like to become a law called?

+ ANSWER 1 A BILL

+ QUESTION 2 Where does a Bill first go to?

+ ANSWER 2 A BILL FIRST GOES TO THE HOUSE

WHERE DOES A BILL GO TO AFTER IT GOES TO THE HOUSE? QUESTION THREE

ANSWER THREE A BILL goes To the SENATE After the House

+ QUESTION FOUR Who signs a bill into law?

+ ANSWER FOUR THE PRESIDENT SIGNS A BILL INTO LAW

+ QUESTION FIVE If president does not like bill, he can

+ ANSWER FIVE HE CAN VETO THE BILL

+ Activity GETTING A BILL SIGNED BY PRESIDENT

+ Instructions Class is divided into two groups. One group represents House and another one –Senate. Teacher is a president. Bill goes to House, each member gives his/her argument for or against the bill. (1min for preparation, half a minute for presentation.) If the bill is approved by the House, it goes to Senate. Senate members judge and decide whether the bill is worth being issued or not. (1min for preparation, half a min for present) At the final stage president either signs or veto the bill.

+ BILLS Resolved that  students will get free ice cream once a week. Resolved that  the school will receive new laptops for each class. Resolved that  students will only take four classes each day. Resolved that  each school will have a football team to compete against each other