Using your coursebook creatively:Ideas to liven up your lesson

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Part I. The Coursebook debate

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How do you view coursebooks?

a) The coursebook is my bible. I am naked without it.

b) The coursebook guides my teaching, but I do other things.

c) It is a mere starting point. I’m creative and adapt it.

d) Who needs a coursebook anyway?

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What’s reading like in your classes?

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Pre-reading: using pictures and predicting

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What do the pictures have in common?

What do these pictures represent?

What can you see?

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Analysis: How does it work?

1. Reveal pictures before title and text

2. Describe (from memory)

3. Make predictions about text

Pictures and predicting: Arouse interest, clues,

activate prior knowledge, give a reason for reading

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During: using jigsaw reading

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Analysis: How does it work?

1. Split text into parts (two/three/four)

2. Explain WHY remembering is so important

3. Students take turns to read and retell to the group from memory

Jigsaw reading: Reading for speaking, co-

operative learning, memory

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Post-reading: motivating students with an interactive quiz

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Kahoot.it

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Analysis: How does it work?

1. Create an account at kahoot.it

2. Teacher or student creates quiz, launches on IWB.

3. SS go to kahoot.it on mobile device/computer and enter game pin

4. Fun starts!

Kahoot quiz: Increasing SS motivation with fun and technology,

informal testing tool!

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What else do you do in your classes to spice up

Reading activities?

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SPEAKING

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Teens & Dialogues1. Structures are hard to remember

2. Role-Plays: YUCK

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Let’s spice up your lesson!

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Pyramid (Inventions)Student A Fall off

Tin Can

Disappointed

Press

Crash

Remote Control

Robot

Battery

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Pyramid (Inventions)Student B

Torch

Dull

Keyboard

Check

Memory Stick

Box

Download

Tube

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Analysis: How does it work?

1. Include words from the unit: revision 2. Include “distractors” (disappointed and dull)3. Words at the top are more difficult:- Fall off (Phrasal Verb)- Tin Can (Compounds)- Torch (Context-false friend)4. Words at the bottom are easier:- Tube, Battery, Robot (cognates)- Download (daily words)5. Competition: Comprehensible Output & Motivation!

Pyramid activity: speaking, vocabulary,

fluency

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Pronunciation

•Play the audio

•SS read along silently while underlining difficult words (pronunciation)

•Check words

• How do you pronounce the following words?

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Disappearing Dialogue

R: Is that your robot for the Science Project? It’s so cute! Was it made from a tin can?E: Yes, it was. But it doesn’t work.R: What’s the problem?E: Well, the instructions weren’t included in the box. I found some on the internet and I’ve done everything that they say but the wheels don’t move.……

DO YOU REMEMBER THE TEXT?

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Analysis: how does it work?

1. Delete content words and fixed structures

2. Remembering: motivation

3. Controlled practice: reinforcement

Disappearing Dialogue:

pronunciation (fluency / accuracy),

vocabulary, fixed structures

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Role Play: Row A- Row B

Gadgets MP3 player

Mobile Phone

Internet Digital Camera

Powerpoint Youtube

Problems Download songs

Send a Whatsapp

No connectivity

Blurred pictures

Addmusic

Download videos

Useful Language

New Vocab Not sure

A B C D E F

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Analysis: How does it work?

1. Rows: Talking to different people, gaining confidence

2. Judge: Trying their best

3. Topic: relevant

Role Play (Rows): Real Situations, Speaking,

Fluency, Easy Monitoring

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What else do you do in your classes to spice up

Speaking activities?

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LISTENING

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What not to do!

Open up your books, page 36, listening exercise 4. Read the instructions in silence, listen carefully and do the questions.

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Invest your students…

…in the activity

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Pre-listening: using transcripts to build student confidence

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What is it?

What does it show?

Why are some words bigger than others?

How do I make one?

Why are the big words useful?

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What can we do with a wordcloud?

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Which words do you know?

Explain / Define / Put it in a sentence

Find 5 verbs / nouns

Find: an opposite, a synonym, something you ...

What’s the listening about? Why?

Ask topic questions: what’s your dream job ?

Find links between words: predict content

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Analysis: How does it work?

1. Access digital copy of transcript

2. Paste into wordle.net

3. Display on IWB / print out

4. Begin questioning / eliciting / predicting

Word clouds: Language support for

listening activities, games, visual aid, predicting:

reason to listen

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During: Ways of listening

Listening for gist

Listening for detail

Listening for individual words

Inferring

Note-taking

Dictation

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Playing word grab

Yourstudents will

lovethis game!

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Word Grab

remember chewing hole

weigh impression tip

outfit applicants remembered

hesitations receptionist careful

whole scruffy now

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remember chewing hole

weigh impression tip

outfit applicants remembered

hesitations receptionist careful

whole scruffy now

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remember chewing hole

weigh impression tip

outfit applicants remembered

hesitations receptionist careful

whole scruffy now

Wrong verb form

HomophonesHomophones

#1 Splat or point out the word

Alternatives: #2 Put the words in order

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Analysis: How does it work?

1. Access transcript / word cloud

2. Select words for recognition

3. Hand out word cards to groups

4. Let the competition commence!

Word grab: Competition, race,

movement for motivation. Highlight vocabulary

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What else do you do in your classes to spice up

Listening activities?

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WRITING

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Writing an essay

1. Writing is not cool

2. Language is difficult

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Let’s spice up your lesson!

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Making an additional point

Introducing a claim

Introducing an example

Giving a reason

Giving an opinion Making a contrast

Stating a condition Concluding

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Memory Race!

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Analysis: how does it work?

1. Point out linkers and elicit more

2. Reading / Starting over: remembering

3. Race: motivation

Memory race: pronunciation

(fluency / accuracy), linkers, familiarization,

enthusiasm

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Think of points for and against

culture

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Tug of war

Holidays abroad:

1) Cost 2) Environment

3) CultureFor Against

What if…?

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Analysis: How does it work?

1. SS have to think of at least one for and one against argument

2. Time your students

3. Games (post-its): motivation

Tug of war: Generating & Organizing

ideas

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What else do you do in your classes to spice up

Writing activities?

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