Since Cooperative Learning is a premise to effiicient language learning, it is functional and constructive to learn managing students' work during the lesson.
Home Assignment
Task 1. Please have a look at the pictures below that reprtesent various forms of student work. Click on the thinglink to read the definitions and think about the differences between them.
2. Why is each form beneficial?
Classwork
Task 3. Click this Lingro link , read about the Whole class work, Group and Individual work advantages and disadvantages and come up with ideas concerning Pair work up and downsides. Post your ideas as comments.
Task 4. The video below reflects students' opinions about Group work. Watch it, think whether you agree with them and do the tasks below:
Step 2. Sign up or log in for voicethread, record your ideas and then post your voicethreads on the Padlet below(follow my example):
Dear Students,
Let's keep on exploring the amazing realm of movie making! This time you'll have to create a film project using images and your voices using the following tools:
voicethread (you'll have to create an account on https://voicethread.com/)
movenotes(you need to create a gmail account https://www.gmail.com/intl/en/mail/help/about.html
and watch the following tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Gq1M90iqcE)
Here are the topics:
1. Describing teachers( in this video you have to develop the image of a good teacher. You may come up with a definition of who a teacher/trainer/facilitator is, describe the teachers' roles and responsibilites{controller, organizer, resource, prompter,tutor,etc}, present the qualities of a good teacher, present a top of 5 or 10 commonest teachers' mistakes)
2. Describing Learners(in this video you have to describe students peculiarities in terms of age(children,adolescents, adults), learning style(converger, oracular, concrete learner, communicative learner,etc.), good students' qualities and a top list what a student should never do.
3. Motivation( in this video you have to develop the concept of motivation in terms ofits definition and types(intrinsic/extrinsic) ; describe its sources(parents, friends, etc) and come up with some tips to increase students' motivation.
Please visit the Materials page, access the link of online books, find the theme Describing Teachers and Learners and use the information that will help you create the recordings.
Please be creative when choosing pictures, fluent, accurate and comprehensive when recording your voices and employing topic vocabulary!
Access the link below to see your assessment rubric categories:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cO-TasL1FvOb_gbrmujW3GTfg22pS1ZGDuNMfIJrdl8/edit?usp=sharing
Dear Students,
This assignment will give you the opportunity to create short videos using Animoto
Picovico
Stupefix.
Here are the topics:
1.Book Trailer(you have to choose a book that you want to recomend for reading and make a short video about it including pictures, videos, quotes, soundtrack)
2. My Hobby(you have to create a short video about your hobby using pictures, text, videos, soundtrack that will describe you, your hobby, the place where you practice it)
3. Advertisement( you have to create a commercial where you will advertise a product or a place trying to convince the audience that it's worth buying or attending. Use pictures, videos, persuasive text, beautiful background and be creative in choosing the way you advertise)
4 My Group(this video will introduce your group, so you'll have to introduce your groupmates, their specific features, preferencies, your common activities(during and after classes) reflected in descriptive text, pictures, videos, etc.
First visit the following sites and create your accounts:
https://animoto.com/home
http://www.picovico.com/en/home
https://studio.stupeflix.com/en/
Then watch the following tutorials accessing the links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6A1PVeVf_U
http://www.slideshare.net/merituni/stupeflix-tutorial
Create your videos, preview and save them, then send the links to them at my email. Success!
Dear Students,
Since we live and activate in the technology era, it's high time to get acquainted with the reasons of using high tech teaching equipment in the classroom while EFL teaching and learning. Watch my video assignment and the slideshare that comes next to it:
Task 2. Which gadgets would you like to employ while teaching? How?
Task3. Team Project Work. Each of the teams mentioned below will have
to shoot a 4-5 min video on the following topics( advertisement, favourite film scene, news report, sports report, weather forecast, interview, survey), bring it on a memory stick, and present it to their groupmates. The videos will be assessed according to the following criteria(creativity, relevance to the topic[content], language fluency and accuracy).
! The best video will be posted on my blog. Success!
Dear Students,
Please have a look at theWordle below and do the following tasks:
Access the link below to see the picture at a larger size:
http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/8326508/Untitled
Task 2. Choose 3 techniques from the Wordly that you find relevant to the each lesson stage.
below:
http://sdalby.edu.glogster.com/the-differences-between-england-and-america/?=glogpedia-source
b). Watch the second video(access the link above) and give 5 examples of British English words and their American equivalents.
c) Watch the first video(access the link above) and complete a Venn Diagram on USA and Great Britain differences and similarities. Watch a sample of Venn Diagram completion in the video tutorial below, build a similar one on a sheet of paper and hand it to me or build it in Word and send it at my email .
d) Write 3 interesting facts about Moldova that would be interesting to foreigners.
Youtube Video Tutorial
Dear Students,
Since lesson planning is a procedure any teacher has to accomplish, I found it necessary to get you acquainted with the benefits of it and with the elements to be taken into consideration while planning.
Watch the video and complete the Quizzes below:
Please access this link in order to do the quiz:
http://www.sogosurvey.com/k/RQsRYSUVsRsPsPsPь..
Dear Students,
Watch the video and complete the Listening, Vocabulary and Grammar Quizzes below:
1. Listen to the song and fill in the gaps:(Stanza 1 part 2)
I would______ in ______ ______
I would ______the______ ______
______ ____ for all you've _____
________ all your ________
2. Spot the mistakes while listening and correct them:(Stanza 2 part 1)
Some nights I feel noise outside but I won't admit
Sometimes I just wanna cry 'cause it's you I need
And it's so nice to tell goonight, when it comes to this, ooh, whoa...
3. Choose the right answer:
1.Whom does the performer dedicate this song?
a) to her brother c)to her son
b) to her father d) to her husband
2. What mood does the video setting and performer's voice and tone create?
a)optimistic c)regretful
b) sad d) tragic
4. Answer the questions:
1. Why does the performer appologize?
2. What does this video teach us?
Quiz 2. Vocabulary
1. Match the words to their definitions and choose 2 to make up sentences:
1. proud a) confess to be true or to be the case
2. to blame b) no longer feel angry about or wish to punish
3. to admit c) a possibility of something happening
4. to forgive d) feeling pleasure of one's own achievments
5. chance e) to find fault with, to hold responsible
2. Explain the following expressions:
1. to hold somebody in one's arms
2. to take someone's pain away
3. to feel broke inside
3. Find 3 idioms with the words "hurt" and "eye" and write their meanings
4. Find 3 synonyms of the word "mistake"
Quiz 3. Grammar
1. Change the Present Simple verbs of this stanza into Simple Past:
Seems like it is yesterday and I see your face
You tell how proud you are but I walk away
If only I know what I know today
2. Unscramble the questions:
1. tell, I, wrong, would, me, you, was?
2. me, understand, would, help, you?
3. me, looking, are, down, you, upon?
4. you, who, are, of, proud, am, I?
3. Fill in the gaps choosing the right word:
There's_____(anything, nothing, everything) I wouldn't do
To _____(has, had, have) just one more______(chance, chances)
To look into______(you, yours, your) eyes and______(see, saw, seen) you looking back.
Dear Students,
Read the Scenarios 1.1. and 1.2 and do the tasks posted below:
- bewilderment
- predicament
- backtalk
- throwback
- mutual
1.a)damage b)hurt c)tease d) injure
2.a) yell b)shout c)giggle d) scream
3.a) effect b) result c) essence d) consequence
4.a) competent b) skilled c) capable d) trained
Task 3. Find in the text the synonyms of the following words,then look them up in the Dictionary Looking BoxThesaurus for 3 antonyms each :
1. ill-natured
2. outdated.
3. sensible
Task 4. Find 3 idioms with 'TEACH" in the Idiom Dictionary Looking Box and post their meanings as comments
Success!
Video Assignment 1.
Since classroom management is a problem that you might come across with during your teaching training or experience, I invite you to watch this video in order to get some tips that could be helpful and do the tasks below:
1 .Which are the factors that lead to students' misbehaviour?
2. What does research show?
3. What teachers' styles have been mentioned in the video?
4. How do you understand the "engaged educator" concept?
5. Which teacher's mistaes may increase noise or misbehaviour?
Task 2. Pair Work
1. Choose 3 of the classrom management strategies described and discuss them with your partner.. Come up with some other strategies if any.
2. Do you agree with the established rules in the video. Which rules would you add or exclude. Share your ideas with your partner. and then with the whole class
Task 3. Project Work.
Agree on a list of rules, create your class code of conduct and post it on the wall in order to be respected.