Relationship buildingMaking and maintaining contact – building trust

Being fair

Sharing experiences

Listening

Being positive and enjoying our work

(some) Professional dispositions

Curiosity

Emotional engagement with knowledge

Mindfulness

Creativity

Resilience

Talk and capacity building…“We….“I wonder…..“What are you thinking….“How do you feel when….“What you’ve said makes me remember….“How did you work that out….“So are you saying….“You’ve extended what…….said“I think you’ve helped us ….“What you’ve just said clarifies, makes clear, the

idea for us I think…“might” / “perhaps” / “maybe” / “possibly” / “what

about”

Planning for talkTalk will be a function of the context in which it comes about ……..and part of that context consists of the kinds of relationships / nature of the relationships between the participants and the things they choose to talk about.

Part of learning how to improve our conversations with children and young people is developing the planning skills to embed different kinds of talk in learning sequences.

Conversations about grammar?!!?

Some famous linguists (people who study languages)….

BF Skinner

Noam Chomsky

Michael Halliday & Ruqaiya Hasan

Constant Leung

Pauline Gibbons

Grammar: Let’s review what we have covered so far….

Nouns:abstract / proper / commonNouns we count and nouns we don’t count

Lesson on articles…..

Thinking Point

Do all languages use articles……etc

Front-load Unpack

Unusual World Records

Bryan Berg

Guinness world record card stacker Bryan Berg completes a model of the Beijing Athlete Village out of playing cards in Hong Kong on July 24, 2008. Berg took 160 hours to construct the entire piece, which includes famous Beijing landmarks such as the National Stadium, also known as the "Bird's Nest, the National Aquatics Center and the Beijing CCTV Tower. Berg commented saying that the biggest challenge was the Bird's Nest because of its many curves and cantilevers.

Thinking point……

Why do you think some people choose to attempt world records?

Ma Li Hua

What unusual world record does she hold?1. Any wild guesses?2. Clues It took 45 days She worked 10 hours a day She got a very sore back She had to fight off insects including cockroaches

and a butterfly Her record attempt was sponsored by the

electronics giant, LG She broke the record in Singapore

Penultimate (second last) clue: the headline to the newspaper article……..

Six weeks on the tiles pays off for toppler

Final clue……

More serious world records….

Solo sailor teen tells of day one crash in the night (Headline: SMH)

THINKING POINTParents should not let their sixteen year old children attempt recordslike this.

Jessica Watson (16)

Imagine if animals were bigger than normal…..

Thinking point……

What do we think it would be like if smallanimals grew five times bigger than normal?

embedded frontloading

Monster rat found in 'lost world' jungle

Task 1: Tick the ending to the first sentence of the

newspaper article “Researchers in a remote jungle in Indonesia

have…….

been lost for a long time. been having a really good time in the jungle. discovered a giant rat - five times the size of a typical

city rat. discovered a lost world.

Task 2: In the list below there are 7 words from the article. Tick the words that you think mightbe in the article

remote beach umbrella Jungle McDonalds television mammals expedition rat camp rainforest house supermarket

Task 3: Listening to the article for auditory discrimination OR comprehension

OR

Task 3: Introductory prediction; read article; review predictions

Later … +

Task 4: Putting the right word back into the articleINSTRUCTIONSHere is an article from the newspaper today. Some of the more difficult words have been taken out and replaced with more common words that have a similar meaning – these words are in italics. The difficult words are at the bottom of the page. See if you can put the difficult words in their right space. Do this one with a partner!

Monster rat found in 'lost world' jungle

December 17, 2007

Researchers in a remote jungle in Indonesia have discovered a giant rat - five times the size of a ______________city rat - and a tiny possum that are

normal

Task 5: Word matchingSee if you can match the words to their right (one hasbeen done for you)

confirm trip expedition pouched animals unearthing finding marsupials to check

Task 6: Not needed cloze Here is the newspaper report of the giant rat. Seven pieces of the text have been left out. There are brackets, e.g. (1), in the text to show where they have been removed. The seven pieces of text are listed below the newspaper report. See if you and your partner can match the right piece of text to each number by righting the correct letter in the space provided.

Monster rat found in 'lost world' jungle

December 17, 2007 - 4:08PM

Researchers in a remote jungle in Indonesia have discovered a giant rat – (1) – and a tiny possum that are apparently new to

science.Unearthing new species of mammals (2) is very rare. The

discoveries (3) are being studied further to confirm their status.

(a) last year

(b) by a team of American and Indonesian scientists

(c) With no fear of humans

(d) a scientist with the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.

(e) because until then humans had rarely visited it

(f) five times the size of a typical city rat

(g) in the 21st century

(1)_____ (5) _____(2) _____ (6) _____ (3) _____ (7) _____(4) _____

Further work……

Text, vocabulary, grammar…..• Further cloze work e.g. reverse cloze• Vocabulary work e.g. etymology work ( ‘possum’ - 1610, from Powhatan (Algonquian) apasum

"white animal." )

• Tier 2 words • Grammar focus e.g.

tense forms… “have discovered” passive voice… “The animals were found”

• Similar texts e.g. Rat was a one-tonne horror story ‘Plague is back', expert claims (Krashen: narrow reading)

Stage 3 / 4 novel

Thinking point…fleeing your home

Setting…..the Ukraine

The Ukraine…and Berdichev

Rifka’s uncle

Rifka’s brothers…Saul and NathanRifka

Rifka’s fatherRifka’s mother

Berdichev Station

Rifka’s house

Some box cars

a steam train

Chapter overviews – more frontloading

......with some unpacking as well

From Rifka’s previous letter in the last Chapter….

“The ocean is so big; everywhere you look in every direction swells this dark, billowing water. It rises and falls as if it were breathing, and the ship skates over the surface.”

September 21, 1920Atlantic Ocean

“The tempest started during the night while we slept.”

“The ship shivered in the hateful ocean.”

“There was so much confusion on deck.”

“The seas, which had seemed so gentle yesterday, rose like hungry beasts, mouths open, hovering and crashing over the sides of the ship.”

“I didn’t care. I cried for Pieter, I cried for myself. I couldn’t stop. I didn’t want to stop.”