Saturday, January 16, 2016

Welcome to BUFS TESOL Workshop Winter 2016




BUFS TESOL Workshop
Winter 2016

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Thursday, January 14, 2016

Online Resources, Part#2


There is an extensive list of Online Language Learning Resources on the Resources page (click on the link at the top of this page). You can also see updated guides qnd lists at  Learningcall.net
Below is a continuation of Jeff’s Most Recommended sites and tools.

The Flipped Classroom is a  form of blended learning which encompasses any use of technology to leverage the learning in a classroom, so a teacher can spend more time interacting with students instead of lecturing. This is most commonly being done using teacher-created videos that students view outside of class time.
Salman Khan's TED Talk
Let's use Video to Reinvent Education

More about Khan Analytics (starts at 1:10)
http://www.thegatesnotes.com/Topics/Education/Sal-Khan-Analytics-Khan-Academy

거꾸로교실 플립러닝 Flipped Learning KBS
PD Journal: 아이들이 즐거워지는 혁명, ‘거꾸로 교실’

Interview with Salman Khan
http://fora.tv/2011/05/03/Khan_Academys_Salman_Khan_The_Real_YouTube_Revolution#chapter_07

About Flipped Classroom
http://www.peterli.com/spm/resources/articles/archive.php?article_id=2604

Reading and Storybooks

Slideshare - largest collection of online presentations. Also includes 'slidecasts', audio narrated presentations

Tips & Tricks 

Commonality and usage of words
Wordcount.org
Google Translate examples

Padlet- very easy group posting tool Screencast Guide here
오정훈's examples - example1 example2
Similar tools listed here Demo below. Double click to add a note.

Voki
Word Clouds
Screencast Guide Here
Wordle Tagul.com Tagxedo.com
Picture Sources

Word Games
Mobile Games

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Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Online TBLT Resource Highlights & Samples


There is an extensive list of Online Language Learning Resources on the Resources page (click on the link at the top of this page). You can also see updated guides qnd lists at  Learningcall.net
 Below are some of Jeff’s Most Recommended sites and tools.

ISLCollective.com - perhaps the best source of free ELT worksheets and handouts

FreeESLMaterials.com  - much of the content is too advanced for elementary,but  Famous People Lessons.com  and ESL Holiday Lessons.com might be useful

 Agendaweb.org/ extensive lists of online activities sorted by level and language component

 Starfall - beginner activities for young learners

 Free Rice  - fun easy, level adjusting vocabulary practice

 Lyricstraining.com- assorted activities using song lyrics (please don't spend your whole lab hour watching Bruno Mars or Maroon 5)

English Listening Lesson Library Online  - authentic language listing materials and activities.

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Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Dictations-type activities



Find the Photo  Differences
Have students work in pairs. Give each pair two pictures that look similar, but include several differences. Students do not show the photos to each other.  They have to describe the picture and find both similarities and differences.  After this activity, tell the students to put the pictures side by side so that they can check whether the differences they found really exist or not.
If this is too difficult for students, you can give the two pictures to both students and have them work together to find the differences. http://www.nick.com/sam-and-cat/games/ (search “spot the differnce)
Picture Dictations   Find a large magazine photo or textbook illustration that shows a specific setting (a city, park, kitchen, school, office, hospital, store etc) and several people engaged in a variety of activities. Don’t show learners the picture. Pre-teach any unfamiliar vocabulary you will use to describe the picture. Orally describe the picture, using level-appropriate sentences, and pausing between lines to allow learners to draw the picture while you describe it. Include some negative statements such as “The woman isn’t wearing a hat.” and confirm that learners don’t draw in response. Describe the picture a second time to allow learners to check their work. When finished, learners compare their pictures to the original and to each other’s pictures.  For higher level learners, pictures can be given to them and they can describe them to their partners.
Sample image
Running Dictation (Messenger Dictation)
Choose a short passage or dialogue and make several copies. Put the copies up around the walls of the classroom (or even the school building).
Put the students in pairs or small groups. The aim is for one of the students in each pair to walk (or run!) to read the passage on the wall. They remember some of the passage and walk (or run!) back to their partner. They quietly dictate what they remembered to their partner, who writes it down. They then swap roles. Over several turns they will build the whole passage. This means they really do have to run back and forth because students will only remember three or four words at a time.
The winning pair is the team that finishes first - although you need to check for mistakes. If there are mistakes, they must keep walking to check!
A good idea is to teach them punctuation vocabulary beforehand if you want them to use the correct punctuation in English. It's a good way to check spelling and fabulous for pronunciation - and great memory training!


Final Reflections








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Day #7 - Pronunciation & Role Play





Minimal Pair Pronunciation Practice
Students are given a handout with sets of minimal pairs. The teacher can lead ‘listen & repeat’ style practice.  Native speaker recordings are available for the minimal pairs on the following pages. Students then  practice saying a pair while their partner guesses with which word(s) was spoken. This can be done as singles, doubles, or triples (e.g. Seat - Sit:  Singles - seat or sit ; Doubles - seat, sit or seat, seat or sit, seat or sit, sit, Triples - sit, seat, sit   or  seat, seat, sit). Help learners distinguish between similar sounds at the beginning of words (pat, bat), in the middle of words (lift, list), and/or at the end of words (have, half).
Variation: Same or Different? Have each learner make two 3” x 3” cards, one labeled SAME, one labeled DIFFERENT. Read word pairs
 aloud, where some pairs are two different words (minimal pairs) and some are the same word read twice. As you read, each learner holds up their SAME or DIFFERENT card.
Same or Different Numbers?
Follow the same procedure above, using number pairs (14/40; 90/19, 15/15)

Extension:  Use a voice recognition tool like Google Translate to check whether student’s pronunciation is accurate enough to be recognized. This can be done with minimal pairs or with practice sentences.



 Pronunciation Practice Sites
Role Plays
Including a roleplay task at the end is a conversation lesson can be a powerful way to get students to work on their communicative skills and tie the contents of a lesson together. Unlike skits, role plays aren’t scripted out in detail. Instead students are give a general scenario with different elements and suggested ideas. Before
 asking them to perform a role play, prepare the students by reviewing key vocabulary and asking questions. The questions should incorporate the major parts of the role play and the vocabulary involved.  There is an abundance of role play materials available online. These will be linked to on our course website. 

 Ross Kissed Me Scene
Role play Resources

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Monday, January 11, 2016

Day#6 - Storytelling and Logic Puzzles

Our Morning Affirmation


Self-efficacy:  Believing in your ability to accomplish a task

1st/2nd/3rd Person Story Retelling -    Students work in pairs answering a basic question like ‘What did you do last weekend?’ with 5 different sentences (I went, I ate, etc.).  Their partner must remember and repeat the sentences ‘You went, You ate, etc.)  Students then change partners and must repeat the sentences of their original partner (John went, He ate, etc.).  An additional round can be added in which students are partnered with the student whose story they just heard. That tell that student what they heard about their story in the second round.

4-3-2
Story retelling  Divide the class into two groups.  Give each group a different story. Let them read the story and prepare their retelling.  Let students line up in two lines facing each other. For the first round, students retell the story for 4 minutes. The second time, change partners, and retell the story for 3 minutes and for the last round retell the story in 2 minutes.
Logic Problems
Provide students with a logic problem or riddle that they need to discuss together in order to solve.
Example: Danny’s Family
Danny is having a birthday party with 6 of his family members. They are his grandmother, mother, aunt, brother, father, and uncle. Their names in random order are Ben, Julie, Mike, Betty, Jane, and Luke.
Listen to the clues to discover the names of Danny's family members.
Clues:
1. Ben is not Danny’s uncle.
2. Danny’s grandmother’s name starts with B.
3. Luke is not Danny’s brother.
4. Julie is not his aunt.
5. Danny’s father’s name is Mike.

Puzzle and Riddle Sources
Picture Dictations   Find a large magazine photo or textbook illustration that shows a specific setting (a city, park, kitchen, school, office, hospital, store etc) and several people engaged in a variety of activities. Don’t show learners the picture. Pre-teach any unfamiliar vocabulary you will use to describe the picture. Orally describe the picture, using level-appropriate sentences, and pausing between lines to allow learners to draw the picture while you describe it. Include some negative statements such as “The woman isn’t wearing a hat.” and confirm that learners don’t draw in response. Describe the picture a second time to allow learners to check their work. When finished, learners compare their pictures to the original and to each other’s pictures.  For higher level learners, pictures can be given to them and they can describe them to their partners.



Feedback and Applications







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Friday, January 8, 2016

Day#5 - Speaker's Corner



Day#5 Handouts
Speaker’s Corner
This is a fluency activity that is suitable for relatively high-level students in schools or classes that support the use of technology and/or shared online spaces. Introduce the concept of Speaker’s Corner by showing videos from the ‘You Are Here’ YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/user/youareherecafe/
Give the students a list of topics they can discuss. Possibilities include:
  • What are the best and worst parts of school?
  • Where else would you like to live? Why?
  • What’s your dream job?  Why?
  • If you could travel back in time, where and when would you go?
Divide them into groups of two or three and give them some time to prepare what they are going to say.   If enough recording devices are available, pair teams up with each other so that one teach can take turns recording the other.  Videos can then be uploaded to a private communal space (like a class Band).  Students are encouraged (or required) to watch and comment on their classmates videos.   For lower level students, the speaking task can be simplified and additional language prompts can be provided.
Speaker's Corner Hyde Park Video

You Are Here Cafe
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