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Everyone’s Different Providing Variety in Language Practice
Rob Dean
Personal Questions… • What did you do at the weekend? • What’s your least favourite food and
why? • Why did you become a teacher? • What’s your favourite word in
English? • Where did you spend your summer
holidays? • What do you miss most about being
a teenager? • What’s your dream car?
If they don't learn how you teach...... teach how they learn!
“As we start a new school year, Mr Smith, I just
want you to know that I'm an abstract-
sequential learner and trust that you'll conduct
yourself accordingly”.
Sensory channels
Visual
Auditory
Kinaesthetic
Visual? Auditory? Kinaesthetic? neat environment
offer help when you've lost something
Want to know ‘Where in the book?’
puzzles / drawings
staring at the teacher
joker / talker / always has something to say
scruffy written work
leader
remembers lyrics
poor time and space orientation
can’t sit still
likes touching things
hand on the wall when walking
good technical skills
hand-eye coordination / sport
origami / paper planes
… and yet more differences… • Introvert / Extrovert • Left brain / Right brain • Tolerant of Ambiguity /
Intolerant of Ambiguity • Degrees and Types of Motivation • Competence in L1
• Mixed Abilities
One easy(?) solution!
One to one lessons!
… but not often
practical
A more practical solution
Aim to please all of the students some of the time, if not all the
students all of the time
VARIETY!!
PRACTICE Activities…
Adaptable for age and level
Adaptable for language point
Varied interaction and focus
Minimal preparation
I’ve lived in Poland for more than 17 years. I’ve visited every European country except Portugal, Iceland, Bulgaria and Albania. I’ve eaten guinea pig in Peru. I’ve visited the Geneva Auto Salon three times. I’ve worn glasses since I was two years old.
Some are true; some are false!
Cheat!!!
Quickly jot down 4 sentences about experiences in your life. Some may be true; some false. Take 4 tokens Aim: To get rid of all your tokens. Players take it in turn to read their statements. Any other member of the group may accuse that player of lying. If the challenge is correct, the ‘liar’ takes all the tokens from the middle. If the challenge is incorrect, the challenger must take the tokens.
I’ve lived in Poland for more than 17 years. I’ve visited every European country except Portugal, Iceland, Bulgaria and Albania. I’ve eaten guinea pig in Peru. I’ve visited the Geneva Auto Salon three times. I’ve worn glasses since I was two years old.
Four are true; one is false!
Lying is surely a sin….
But here’s another one!
What are you doing?
The Junk Cupboard
Household (and other?)
objects
There is / there are
Necessary Not necessary
Good idea Not a good idea
OK Not OK
MUST DON’T HAVE TO SHOULD SHOULDN’T CAN CAN’T
Necessary Not necessary
Good idea Not a good idea
OK Not OK
1 2 3 4 5 6
and now for something completely _______ different
Write a review of a film you have seen recently. Include the following: The genre of the film The main stars The director A brief summary of the plot Your opinion of the film Blah blah blah
A film review What’s the name of the film? What type of film is it? Who stars in it? Who directs it? One interesting thing about the plot. Your overall opinion of the film.
Bring in the
outside world…
Bring in the outside world…
What would
you do to save the gold
– and the passengers?
?
Alphabet taught to kids nowadays…
It’s time to ensure that the way students learn with
technology agrees with the way they live with technology.
Online resources
Classroom materials:
Coursebook and related components
Online materials
Integrated and complementary
Hints and tips make students think Automatic marking means less work for the teacher Instant feedback means results for the student are here and now Repetition of an activity means students can see improvement and progress
Information for the teacher…
Some statistics
“It’s a new world of education”
“It’s very nice because computers follow us everywhere; so why not
use them for learning?”
Feedback from students on MEL
So far… Variety
Skills Language focus Interactions Left Brain / Right Brain Competitive / Non-competitive
… but what’s it all for??
COMMUNICATION!
Can identify very common food and drink
on a menu
A1
Can understand standard speech
on familiar matters, with
some repetition or reformulation
A2
Can collate information from several written
sources and summarise the
ideas orally
B1
Can ask and answer
questions about what they do at
work and in their free
time
A2
The CEFR… • Some of the
bands are VERY wide.
• Exactly WHERE in the B1 band am I?
Introducing the Global
Scale of English
The Global
Scale of
English is a
global,
granular scale
for measuring
proficiency in
English.
A1 26
A2 38
B1 56
A2 35
Can identify common food and drink on a menu Can understand standard speech on familiar matters, with some repetition or reformulation Can collate information from several written sources and summarise the ideas orally Can ask and answer questions about what they do at work and in their free time
The syllabuses
• Hundreds more ‘can do’
statements to teach with
compared to CEFR
• ‘Can do’ statements
rated by thousands of
teachers worldwide
• Syllabus underpins
pedagogy of course
material
*
Introducing ‘Progress’ A tool for measuring skills
proficiency and progress
No.
of
errors
A1 A2 B1 B2 C1 C2
Measuring progress
How do we define progress?
What is Progress and what makes it unique?
A set of online proficiency
tests taken at three stages
during the year – beginning,
middle and end
Gives a precise
measure of a
learner’s proficiency
in one hour
Automatically
scores 4 skills
Delivers rapid
individual
score report
(overall and
individual
skills scores)
to teacher and
learner
Scores learners
on the Global
Scale of English
Delivers ‘can-do’
descriptor list to
inform teaching
Aids
motivation:
Learners can
see their
movement
within a CEFR
band
What students say…
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Quiz Time: How much do you
remember?
Quality language practice
Personalised
Memorable
Interactive
Catering for EVERYBODY
