Episode 007: The Ball is Pretty
Update: 2014-04-22
Description
Show Notes: The Minimal Pair
Title: The Ball is Pretty
Episode no: 007
Date: 4/21/14
Topics in Language Learning
Student attendance & making up work
- Importance of coming to class, especially in a second-language classroom
- Reasons for absences; where do we draw the line?
- Attendance policy
- Homework that’s due on the day that class is missed
- Making up what was missed (including assessments)
[20:18 ]
Methodology
On the lighter side: fun things we’ve done and would like to do!
- Games
- Ice-breaker
- Mad libs
- The Minimal Pair game
- Taboo
- Simon Says…
- “Speed” vocabulary
- BINGO
- Music
- “School House Rocks”
- Conditionals & modals, YouTube compilations
- Azar song lessons: http://www.azargrammar.com/materials/uueg/UUEG_SongLessons.html
- Count & non-count nouns (My Favorite Things)
- Conditionals (If I Had a Hammer or Octupus’ Garden)
- Vocabulary cloze
- Role play/dramatizations
- Lower Academic English
- Point-of-View
- Pronunciation
[38:28 ]
Adjunct Antics/Culturally speaking…
When worlds collide: varied perspectives in the classroom
- Modals: “should/shouldn’t” discussion
- “Food for thought”: how sharing food opened a discussion on cultural differences
- “Diversity theme” in a diverse classroom
- Culturally informed opinions about lecture topics
Keep it minimal!
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