As the bag gets fuller, learners really have a sense of accomplishment when they see all the new lexical items they have met during the course. Watkins talks about a word bag which is something I often use for reviewing lexical items at the beginning of the next lesson.
So coming back to my upcoming input session on Teaching Vocabulary, there are plenty of ideas which CELTA trainees can employ when introducing new lexis in their classrooms, some of which they may not have thought about before. The final section on the DVD is called “Advice for teachers” which includes tips such as: In addition to the lessons themselves there is a short interview with the teachers, here they give tips about teaching that particular type of lesson. The DVD itself contains a vocabulary, a grammar, a reading and a speaking lesson to observe. The appendices cover a variety of topics such as basic grammar terminology, an activity bank, a needs analysis form and activities to accompany the demo lessons on the DVD.
#Alternatives to scrivener driver#
For example the teacher says “The dog ran into the road and the driver had to swerve to miss it.” The activity given to the trainee teacher is “How could you check the learners understood the meaning of swerve?” The commentary at the end of the unit gives the answer: The teacher could ask questions such as: Did the driver stop? No. Did they drive in a controlled way? No. Does “swerve” involve the brake or the steering wheel? The steering wheel. (These are known as concept checking questions) For instance, Classroom example 7: The teacher uses the new word in context and the learners try to work out the meaning. For each method suggested, there is an activity for the trainees to do.
This includes 8 practical classroom examples that trainee teachers could use in their teaching practice. An explanantion of the importance of words.As I have a session on Teaching Vocabulary coming up on my current CELTA course, I decided to look at this chapter in a bit more detail. The chapters cover a variety of topics such as Managing a Class or Developing Writing Skills. It inlcudes a DVD and is made up of 18 chapters and 8 appendices. The second edition of Learning to Teach English published by Delta Publishing is designed as an introduction to teaching for those embarking on an initial teacher training course such as TKT, CELTA or Cert. On our CELTA courses in Munich, we use Learning Teaching by Scrivener so when Learning to Teach Englishlanded on my desk, I was interested to see whether it could hold its own against these two “classics”. When I did my CELTA back in 1997 (!) we used The Practice of English Language Teachingby Harmer as our coursebook.
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