Teaching SpeakingCentennial CollegeJudy Thompson

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.

Teach a man to fish and you feed him for alifetime.

Agenda

1. English – what’s broken and what’s missing

2. The six point guide to spoken English3. Techniques for teaching speaking4. Classroom exercises

Information Doesn’t Make a Difference

1. Information – Lesson2. Exercises – Practice 3. Transformation - Experience of success

with the new information

Rita Baker – BRAIN POWER80% of our brains are interneurons whose

job is to find patterns and use them

X Ray of the Fracture

You Are Here

Pattern Teaching Techniques

1. Is it always true?2. Attach new ideas to information students

already know, “You know this already.”3. Create a successful experience of the new

information – transformation

Ask me about videos

The Six PointsWhat is most valuable for you to do

today? Basic – CLB 1-31. 40 Sounds - English Phonetic Alphabet

(EPA) 2. Words - Stress-based language 3. Sentences - Content words Advanced – CLB 4+4. Linking - words start with consonants5. Expressions – English is idiomatic6. Body language – 80% of the message

1A – Phonetic Alphabet

_ b _ d _ f g h _ j k l m n _ p _ r s t _ v w _y z

/Sh/ - shoe, sugar, nation, machine/Ch/ - church, cello, picture/TH/ - thing, thank, both, teeth/Th/ - the, them, these, mother, brother/Ng/ - singing, pink/Zh/ - Asia, garage, usual, Taj Mahal

* Past Tense and Listening Skills Exercises

1B - EPA Vowels•The first thing people learn in a new

language is the names of the colors

•Inside the names of 16 common colors in English are the 16 vowel sounds of English

•Students learn the colors of words and crazy English spelling is no longer a barrier to confident speaking

* Listening Skills, Olive Maze, Word Search

Everything is in the Color Chart

•Vowel sounds in an easy logical format•Bridge to pronunciation from spelling•Access to spelling from listening•Priority - All vowel sounds are NOT

equally difficult they’re missing short vowels and Purple

•Word stress dictates the word color•Linking is in the letters

Words

*What color is your name?

•Stress-based language•Elastic bands•Every word is a color•Accents don’t matter•Use their names first

Every word in English is a color on that one page.

Sentences

•Some words are important and some are not

•Pablo’s Story – * context for students•Grammar doesn’t matter when you are

speaking

* Wolves Eat Sheep

Advanced (Fluency)

(Keep asking me how to attach this to information they already know) *ABC… EPA Vowel Chart

Linkingc-cc-vv-v

Listening tool – not for students to master

Three Predictable Places

1. Consonant Consonantbus _ stop bu stop

2. Consonant Vowelturn _ off tur noff

3. Vowel Vowelgo _ away go waway

All Words Start with Consonants

Can I have a bit of egg

ca ni ha va bi da vegg* Titanic Song, ABC

ExpressionsGrass is Black

Teacher Judy’s Sound Dictionary App

Sound Dictionary App

•Colors provide the bridge from reading to pronunciation

AND BACK •Colors provide the bridge from listening

to spelling

Big Finish

•www.englishphoneticalphabet.pbworks.com

•Sneak peak at the new posters •Thompson Language Center YouTube

Channel•Teacher Judy’s Sound Dictionary app•Speaking Test app – accent/intelligibility

www.thompsonlanguagecenter.comjudy@thompsonlanguagecenter.com(905) 757-1257