1. Please introduce yourself to others sitting near you Our students requested that we play this music as you arrive

2. Susan Dempsey and Amanda Wilson Boston College Lincolnshire UK

3. Web 2.0 Tools for IELTS Speaking and Writing Success IATEFL Brighton 2011

4. Our context

5. Ive never thought about this before in my life Whats the point of doing this? This is really boring Cant we do this another day? I hate writing. Cant we just talk about this? In my present state of mind, writing is the last thing I want to do Im only 16. You are wasting my time In small groups,

6. How do you engage your IELTS students?

7. Benefits of Web 2.0 Internet-based projects encourage(s) critical thinking skills. Learners are not required to simply regurgitate information they find, but have to transform that information in order to achieve a given task. Dudeney & Hockly 2007:44

8. A week in the life of our IELTS classrooms

10. 3 step approach to speaking and writing Idea generation Capturing the students work Giving meaningful feedback

11. Speaking

12. IT and Communications Which technologies are most important to you personally? How have new technologies changed peoples lives in recent years?

13. Idea generation

15. Capturing students work

16. Now you have a recording of your students speech, how would you give feedback?

17. Giving meaningful feedback in brief

18. Feedback in detail

19. Writing

20. Idea generation

21. Writing task 2 Modern technology now allows rapid and uncontrolled access to and exchange of information. Far from being beneficial, this is a danger to our societies. What do you think?

23. Capturing students work

24. Giving meaningful feedback

25. Could you see yourselves using any of these Web 2.0 tools in your context?

26. Feedback please!

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