2009年4月6日 星期一

Practice with Games

Today, April 6, we moved on a new lesson, Unit 14; the story is about a journalist who likes arguing with others. He doesn’t care whom he argue with. Before the text start, we had a small talk: What situation would you argue with others?
The answer from Jean was: “I always argue with my husband while driving; we have different ideas about routes.” I asked her,” Who wins usually? She said, “My husband does. I don’t want to hurt his feelings, he thinks he is smarter.”
Joseph said, “I don’t argue with others. Especially, friends, I think friendship is more important than argument.”

This time I’d like to avoid boring class while working on the texts. I made them a few teams, and then we practiced words and sentences with games.
The first game: Use “air- conditioning” to make more words like, acting, riding, doing, condition..
The second game: I wrote a word on a piece of paper and let them make a long sentence; the longer the better. They both did a great job, but there were a few mistakes in the sentences. So, they learned from mistakes.

We didn’t finish the whole article yet, we were about in the middle of the passage. I’ve taught some vocabulary and phrases: whom, as adj. /adv. as, mind + V.ing, the more adj… the more adj…
I think, today’s lesson went smoothly. Hope they did learn something from me.

Cindy R Shih

2 則留言:

  1. Here's a link to his ppt.

    http://www.slideboom.com/presentations/57376/Teaching-English-to-Seniors

    Link to recording is at
    https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2009-04-07.2223.M.7AE801FFB697DA460D4BF25AA8C21B.vcr

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  2. Your activities and discussion related to this story sound interesting. I'll bet your students had some interesting stories. You could also choose some scenes from movies in which people are arguing. To use movies, we don't need to use the whole movie. Sometimes I use just scenes from movies. You could also turn down the volume and just have students guess what the characters are arguing about from watching without sound. Try using movies!! I use scenes from movies even with level one students. Also, what are the cultural differences in arguing? Do people argue the same in Taiwan and in the USA? Or even in Taiwan and in China? I have read that there are different ways of communicating in China and in Taiwan. You might be able to study this through movies. I know that there are different ways of arguing in Japan and in the USA... in England and in the USA. (My Mom always says I have an "Irish" temper which I "inherited" from my father's side of the family.)

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