1. Approach to Dialogue and teaching through activities
COLT Project
Approach to Dialogue and teaching through activities
Thursday 12 March 2009
Majda Al-liabi

2. Outline of session
Discuss approaches to planning and designing four skills Activities( speaking)
Demonstrate how activities can be adapted for different levels

3. Studies on learning retention
10% of what you read
20% of what you hear
30% of what you see
50% of what you see and hear
70% of what you say
90% of what you say as you do (e.g., orally work out a problem) (Pike 1989).

4. Planning speaking activities for proposed lesson
What do I need to plan a game to my lesson?
Know your aim of lesson
Syllabus and scheme of work Examination level
Assessment method for the activities
Which Arabic I am doing ? MSA, Dialect , or classic.

5. What are the speaking activities
Conversation
Vocabulary building
Role play
Video and comment
Information gap
Find your partner
Telling a story
New vocabulary/and known vocabulary

6. Activity Design of a speaking Activity
Choose a topic
Choose a speaking activity
Decide if it to be done in pairs or groups
Design the activity for basic level
Extension : develop the activity for the higher level.

7. Presenting the activity
Topic area :optional
Speaking activity : Role play
Pair /groups: Basic
Adapt for : Higher ? Intermediate

8. End of session
Questions!