1. Fachdidaktik Englisch II – hperino@mac.com Creating Interesting Exercises...and making boring exercises more interesting (spelling, vocab, grammar) (inspired by Penny Ur) IATEFL Cardiff 2009 Presentation

2. Fachdidaktik Englisch II – hperino@mac.com What Is “Interest”? judge by result or by symptoms: attention is voluntary + learner is involved in doing the task + there is enjoyment → exploring ways of increasing interest without much preparation: “tweaking” rather than creating.

3. Fachdidaktik Englisch II – hperino@mac.com Spelling: dictation 1. bicycle 6. friend 2. because 7. encourage 3. people 8. privilege 4. independent 9. building 5. embarrassed10. enough

4. Fachdidaktik Englisch II – hperino@mac.com Spelling: cloud

5. Fachdidaktik Englisch II – hperino@mac.com Spelling: Why Rise in Interest? Task involving clear, achievable goal with tangible result Game-like challenge (task + “constraints” or “rules”) Collaboration Full participation Success-orientation

6. Fachdidaktik Englisch II – hperino@mac.com Vocabulary afraid ofdolphindisabledtherapy touchwindtwiceconnection competitionsnowswimlie down musclesinternationalfreezinghurt What can we do to help learn these words?

7. Fachdidaktik Englisch II – hperino@mac.com Vocabulary afraid ofdolphindisabledtherapy touchwindtwiceconnection competitionsnowswimlie down musclesinternationalfreezinghurt...or we can do any of the following: Make a sentence contextualizing two words Make a true sentence from a word Make a false sentence from a word Make a negative sentence Make up a story including them all We can ask learners to make a sentence contextualizing each word...

8. Fachdidaktik Englisch II – hperino@mac.com Vocabulary: Why Rise in Interest? Challenge through using higher-order thinking skills (cf. Bloom): convergent: logical, critical examples:connecting, prioritizing, classifying, identifying causality/lack of causality, evaluating truth/falsehook, identifying inclusion/exclusion, detecting contradicions or tautologies, identifying logical necessity divergent: creative, “lateral” creative:associations, solutions to a problem, answers to a question, questions to an answer lateral:thinking of unusual or original solutions to problems, looking at things from an unconventional angle,“breaking rules”

9. Fachdidaktik Englisch II – hperino@mac.com Vocabulary: matching

10. Fachdidaktik Englisch II – hperino@mac.com Vocabulary: “tweaking it”

11. Fachdidaktik Englisch II – hperino@mac.com Vocabulary: Rise in Interest

12. Fachdidaktik Englisch II – hperino@mac.com Grammar: present perfect I

13. Fachdidaktik Englisch II – hperino@mac.com Grammar: present perfect II

14. Fachdidaktik Englisch II – hperino@mac.com Grammar: Why Rise in Interest?

15. Fachdidaktik Englisch II – hperino@mac.com Grammar: There Is / Are I

16. Fachdidaktik Englisch II – hperino@mac.com Grammar: There Is / Are I You can “make sentences” about the picture......or you can: achieve a set number of sentences (20/30) say as many sentences as you can in limited time

17. Fachdidaktik Englisch II – hperino@mac.com Grammar: There Is / Are II

18. Fachdidaktik Englisch II – hperino@mac.com Grammar: Why Rise in Interest? Open-ended Full participation Task clearly defined, achievable goal Game-like challenge: task + constraints (rules)

19. Fachdidaktik Englisch II – hperino@mac.com To Summarize

20. Fachdidaktik Englisch II – hperino@mac.com To Summarize

21. Fachdidaktik Englisch II – hperino@mac.com To Summarize

22. Fachdidaktik Englisch II – hperino@mac.com Result of “Tweaked” Exercises

23. Fachdidaktik Englisch II – hperino@mac.com Now You!