UTILIZING IMAGES, POWERPOINT AND VIDEO for COMMUNICATIVE TASKS

By Irma Qiria and Maka Kitia

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What are benefits of visual aids?

+Benefits of Visual Aids

Function for learning more effectively

Helps students use visual capacity

Stimulates thinking

Increases students interest in a subject

Helps students become more engaged in their own learning

Reinforces the material learnt

Emphasizes a point

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What communicative tasks based on visual aids have you used with your students?

+Tasks

Describing picturesRetelling a story according to a set of images

Reporting speech provided in a videoMaking up a dialogue Discussing the facts and eventsPredicting Role Play

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Advice Game

(Maka Kitia Version)

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Video Based Discussion-Role Play

( Irma Qiria Version )

+I’m just a Bill

+QUESTION 1

What is an idea you would like to become a law called?

+ANSWER 1

A BILL

+ QUESTION 2

Where does a Bill first go to?

+ANSWER 2

A BILL FIRST GOES TO THE HOUSE

WHERE DOES A BILL GO TO AFTER IT GOES TO THE HOUSE?

QUESTION THREE

ANSWER THREE

A BILL goesTo the SENATEAfter the House

+QUESTION FOUR

Who signs a bill into law?

+ANSWER FOUR

THE PRESIDENT SIGNS A BILL INTO LAW

+QUESTION FIVE

If president does not like bill, he can --------

+ANSWER FIVE

HE CAN VETO THE BILL

+Activity

GETTING A BILL SIGNED BY

PRESIDENT

+InstructionsClass is divided into two groups. One group

represents House and another one –Senate. Teacher is a president.

Bill goes to House, each member gives his/her argument for or against the bill. (1min for preparation, half a minute for presentation.)

If the bill is approved by the House , it goes to Senate. Senate members judge and decide whether the bill is worth being issued or not. (1min for preparation, half a min for present)

At the final stage president either signs or veto the bill.

+BILLS Resolved that students will get free ice cream once a

week.

Resolved that the school will receive new laptops for each class.

Resolved that students will only take four classes each day.

Resolved thateach school will have a football team to compete against each other