Where are these people from?
Christopher Wren
Tina Turner
Charlie Chaplin
Arthur Conan Doyle
J.R.Tolkien
Meryl Streep
Isaac Newton
BRAINSTORMING ACTIVITIES
Stonehenge, the Niagara Falls, Cork,
The Grand Canyon, the Statue of Liberty,
Westminster Abbey, Loch Ness
Millennium Bridge,the Great Barrier Reef.
Match attractions and countries:
are appropriate to revise the material
or get involved in a lesson
transport, tour, ticket
railway, road
airport, airplane
vehicle, vocation
emotions
lorry, luggage
butcher
axe
meat
chop
cow
strong
fat
?
What English-speaking countries are these
words associated with?
Football, cowboy, bacon&eggs, Aborigines, Indians, the Queen, whisky , St.Patrick
Is based at finding connection in the mind
between different things and ideas
Eliciting background knowledge
“Reading habits”
-What newspapers do you read?
-What magazines do you read?
-How many books do you read in your free time during a year?
-Are you reading a book in a moment?
Eliciting from a picture
S1: Working on the
computer is my hobby.
I think it is very easy.
S2: Computer is a new
form of addiction.
To revise the material, find out background knowledge.
Since so as too however as well as although therefore
1) I had had no sun for a long time. I was depressed. I went out and booked a holiday.
S1: As I had had no sun for a long time, I was depressed, so I went out and booked
a holiday.
2) I hated my school. I decided to stay on there.
S2:
develops pupils ‘imagination
Summary map
John
teacher
born
married
son
wife Marry
secondary school
has a lot of functions: to get involved in a lesson,
present new material, sum up the knowledge, revise
the material, check comprehension
Health problems
Attitude to money
Way to success
Life style
Family relationships
Life story
Personal qualities
Love story
Mind-mapping
Children
Predicting by a movie scene
Students read the 1st paragraph and predict what will happen next.
Students watch a fragment of a film and predict the topic of the lesson.
The teacher prepares a list of action verbs that come up in the video. The students make predictions, based on the verb list, about the situation they will see in the video.
develops guessing
shop
Making up questions
Questions and answers:
Drilling techniques
Questions for writing
Students are given a list of questions using which they compose a piece of writing
E.g. Have you ever been in an embarrassing situation? Can you describe it? Where did it happen? Why did it happen?
Answers before questions
Before reading/listening a text students are given a list of answers. Their task is to write questions for them.
E.g. Who wrote it?
Virginia Woolf
b) ---------
In the seventies
c) -----------
It’s a fiction
? ? ?
can be various to practise grammar and vocabulary
Changing the voice
Combining two sentences using the conjunctions
Negative and interrogative sentences
has different forms to use
Gapped substitution
1.Where is she? (=Jenny)
2.They (------) want to be famous but I don’t like them.
3.Please, put them (----)on the table.
4.Look at us! We (----) can swim.
the cat
John and I
Paulo and Ann
the books
Simple substitution drill
E.g. Model sentence: Did you see that aeroplane?
Prompts: car Did you see that car?
bus… Did you see that bus?
Variable substitution drill
E.g.
Model sentence: I was at school.
Prompt:
John and Mary: John and Mary were
at school.
Skeleton structure
E.g. I have been learning English for 2 years.
Students: I’ve been driving a car for 1 year.
Clapping vocabulary
Clapping verbs
Clapping a story
Rhythm emphasizing techniques
is appropriate to practise pronunciation, rhythm ,
intonation, to memorize grammar structures and vocabulary
Reciting a poem
Dramatizing a dialogue
DRAMATISING
Drama techniques
are often used as post-reading or listening activities
Miming a story
E.g. She was eating. She found something in her food. She called a waiter. She pointed to the food…
Imposing a manner
Students are to walk as if they are
-exhausted
-limping
-happy
-in love
is a good way to deliver information
or check comprehension especially in weak classes.
Act out a situation
E.g. Role card A:
You are a customer in a cake shop.
You want a birthday cake for a friend.
He/she is very fond of chocolate.
Role card B:
You are a shop assistant in a cake shop.
You have many kinds of cakes, but not
A chocolate cake.
is used for real communicative
purposes in post activities
Completing the dialogue
Hello. Fast Pizza. Can…?
Yes,…Two pizzas,…
Certainly. What kind…?
…vegetarian pizzas?
Yes…A plain pizza Margarita.
…that?
Cheese and tomato. With garlic…
B. ….
A ….
Completing in forms
E.g. Customs declaration
Personal profile
COMPLETING TECHNIQUES
are widely used in different kinds of textbooks
Extending brief notes
15 years old, born Austral, parents moved to Britain-5, lived Glasgow, then L., study GCSE exams now, likes-pop, basket b….
I’m 15 years old. I was born in Australia. My parents moved to Britain when I was five years old. We lived in Glasgow-that was great-then in London…
Extending the list
Extending the summary
Snowball
I have a dog.
I have a dog and a cat.
I have a dog, a cat and a parrot.
I have a dog, a cat, a parrot and a pig.
Ann Bird
1934
1964
Wilson
Peter Hall
John Smith
1936
Gaps-traps
E.g. dau-hter
ne-essary
de-ision
Restoring a text
Lunch land crew speed aboard
“Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
Captain Gibson and his …welcome you
…British Airways Flight…to New York…”
Picture prompts
Usually I work on my
But today I am decorating
Restoring sentences
E.g. with hints: They---(go) to Australia in 1980
without hints: They ---to Australia in 1980.
is used to practise grammar structures,
check comprehension, promote interaction between students
Ordering sentences
Ordering phrases
E.g. -How do I get there?
-Excuse me, please.
-Turn right. It’s over there.
Ordering poetical lines
Ordering pictures
Ordering techniques
Pupils are suggested to order…
Literary heroes
№ Hero Reason
Perfect partner
-sense of humour
-good looks
-patience
-plenty of money
Selecting a place to study
pupils are to express their personal opinion
individually, in pairs or groups.
RICH PARENTS
DISCO
CLASSICAL
ROCK'N'ROLL
TECHNO
ACID ROCK
PUNK ROCK
R'N'B
POP
JAZZ
the secret of success?
When would you go first in a touristic centre?
Discos
Museums
Restaurants and cafes
Art galleries
Churches and cathedrals
Parks
Shopping centres
Main streets
Theatres
The zoo
Open-air markets
What kind of music is more popular
in your opinion?
Odd one out
E. g. buy, play, cry, why
Contrasting
E.g. list of features…
Filling in categories
Family friends work school other
Matching techniques
it means grouping words into different categories
1
2
3
This exercise drills pupils to choose key words
Matching pictures with words
1)Mother is
2)My sister has
3)You will be
4)An apple a day
Split proverbs or sentences
keeps the doctor away
able to do it
coming soon
done all the work
Split dialogues
Matching pictures and descriptions
Information search
Students are to match information they need with the source where they can find it.
is used to check comprehension
and practise language
Self-correction
E.g. He live in London.
Symbolic correction
Ww-wrong word
Sp-spelling
T-tense
Wo-word order
P-punctuation
E.g. I am going to the village where live my parents/ Wo
Is a way to recognize errors and mistakes, check knowledge .
Comparing phenomena
E.g. Private and public schools in the USA.
Comparing cultures/ realia
Comparing structures
E.g. He was used to living alone.
He used to live alone.
Comparing answers
Comparing pictures
Is a kind of comparing. You can compare objects,
cultures, structures.
Picture-based multiple choice
Weather forecast
Today
Tomorrow
Multiple choice with blanks
E.g. He doesn’t know when she---the truth.
a) tells b) tell c) will tell
More than one
E.g. Which of the following is correct at the opening of a personal letter?
Dear John,
dear John.
Dear John
Dear John!
Is one of the most essential drills to practise grammar or vocabulary
. We often use it to prepare for State exam.
-Robert went to a seaside town for a holiday.
-Robert always takes his holidays in June.
-One day a shark bit him.
-Robert couldn’t swim and began to drown.
-A lot of people ran to help him.
-Robert felt ashamed.
are used to check comprehension, knowledge explore,
ideas especially in reading or listening.
Guessing games
E.g. -Is it big or small?
-It isn’t very big.
-Is it yellow?...
Tongue twisters
E.g.
Jerry’s berry jelly really rankled his broiling belly.
Puzzles
Crosswords
Alphabet games
E.g. 11,9,20,3,8,5,14
Key: kitchen
Peter
Sister
Dog
Hockey
Saransk
Wheels
Crazy compliments
E.g. -Tell me something nice about my
English.
-Tell me how you like my jokes.
-Say something nice about my
clothes.
Celebrities
Likes - dislikes
Guess who
Fortunes
Tigers and lions
Describing people
Describing personal experience
( a dream, a family celebrations, a ceremony, a sport event…)
Describing a picture
E.g. about an object
What is it? What colour is it?
Where is it? What size is it?
Maze description
E.g. girl boy
fat slim thin
long hair short hair curly hair
Transferring techniques
Phonemic dictation
E.g. Students hear “table” and write [teibl]
Word thieves
The teacher chooses a particularly long reading passage on a particular topic (e.g. School ) and reads the passage to the students, whose task is to catch and write down every word they hear that fits the topic.
Picture dictation
E.g. They are dancing
The man is playing chess
Punctuation dictation
The teacher dictates a text without naming the punctuation marks. Students are to take it down the right way.
Cloze dictation
The teacher dictates the text and from time to time instead of the right word he/she snaps or claps.
School
Art
gallery
Cinema
Post
office
Museum
Bank
Hospital
Shop
Theatre
Centre street
Victoria street
Park lane
Following instructions
Students listen to the instructions and carry them out.
E.g. To stretch your wrists place hands together, in praying position…
Graphs interpretation
Students are asked to comment on the graph or diagram.
E.g. As the graphs shows “Spenser” used to be one of the most prosperous companies….
is used to recode verbal information into non-verbal
or explain non-verbal information in pictures or schemes.
Free note taking
Main facts
Debatable points
(Students listen to their fellow students’ reports and write down the debatable points they’d like to argue about)
pupils learns to put down necessary information ,
to reduce a text or organize the ideas.
Expressing negative qualities.
E.g. ( not very+ adjective)
1. He is small
He is not very small.
2. He’s got a horrible complexion.
Synonyms
E.g. meal-snack, nourishment
insane-mad, crazy, loony
Idioms
E.g. We are like chalk and cheese.
We are completely different.
Definitions
E.g. We sleep there-bedroom
You keep your car there –garage
Say in one word
E.g. Helen looks after people’s teeth.
She is a d---------
English or American?
E.g. American British
candies sweets
films
Quiz shows
Labelling speech bubbles
…..
….
Dealing with pictures techniques
Adding details into the picture
Students read or listen to some description and complete the picture according to it.
E.g. Policeman: We are looking for a young woman. She is about thirty…
Adding objects into the picture
Completing the picture.
Text-processing techniques
the aims of this technique are checking comprehension,
identifying the key words and sentences, delivering information in a
compressed form.
Guided summary
Students summarize the text using the given key-words, key –expressions, questions.
Summarizing a text to a sentence
Summarizing a conversation
Students resume the content of conversation in four sentences.
Pupils summarize and deliver information in their own words,
highlight the key moments, pick up the main points.
Appraisal of a book
Having read a book students are asked to give their judgments about it.
Appraisal of a film
Students are to give critical evaluation of
the film they saw.
Newspaper review
Students are to give a review of the newspaper according to the plan:
E.g. 1.World’s news.
2.Home affairs
3.Business and economy.
4.Sport events.
is based on making a written or spoken report of a subject
(book, film, event, text).
Limited number of paragraphs
Is useful to identify ideas and check comprehension
Restoring a text
Students find out the necessary information from each other in order to get a complete version of a text.
Interaction techniques
Pupils are given different information .They are to find out the
necessary information from one another.
Practicing structures
E.g. Can you remember what you were doing when:
-your first tooth fell out?
-someone invited you on your first date?
-you first saw a ship?
Asks “B” why he
has chosen this
profession
Disagrees and tells
about disadvantages
of this occupation
Meets “B” and asks
about his
new job at school
Thanks and invites
“A” to his school
Tells about his childhood
and the event
that influenced his choice
Disagrees and tells
the examples from
his school
Answers and expresses
his positive opinion
about teaching
A
B
Pupils are to compose a dialogue using instructions
QUESTIONNAIRE
Collecting data techniques
II. Now calculate your points to find out if you
are a good friend!
24—30 points You are a very good friend!
20-23 points You are quite nice to your friends
but could help them more!
12-19 points You could be a much better
friend if you tried!
1-11 points Have you got any friends?
is appropriate to practise vocabulary and
grammar structures, show background knowledge.
Is a very interesting and effective technique
in real life situations.
Quiz
Organizing points for contrast or comparative essay
City life
Country life
noise
Crowds of people
Good educational
services
Good public
transport
People friendly
Need a car
Open space
Few social
facilities
Topic: The country has everything that is good in life; the city all that is bad.
Creative writing techniques
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Poetical associations
Family is….
Family is…
Family is love,
Family is home
Relations from above
And not being alone
Matching the rhymes
E.g. Henry was the English King.
He had 6 wives and he could sing.
Mary was the Scottish Queen.
There were many she could win.
Mini-debate
Problem-solving techniques
Is based on discussing or disputing about historical, philosophical
or moral issues considering different sides of the question.
Coming to an agreement
Students are given the list of items (e.g. a list of different
professions). They choose five of the given items and write their own list.
Making decisions according to the situation
Students work in groups. They are given a situation and their task is to make a decision.
E.g. Imagine yourselves in the USA.
You and your friends have an opportunity to meet the representatives of the following subcultural groups.
Discuss the options and choose one of them:
BIKERS
ROCKERS
HIPPIES
HACKERS
RAPPERS
-say what your choice is;
-give reasons:
-show your attitude towards the group.
Pupils are to make a choice (usually from given options)
Planning a menu
Planning within a situation
E.g. Planning a picnic
-place to go
-food to buy beforehand
-people to invite
-things to take
Drafting a plan
Planning a tour
Pupils are to decide what to do and how to do,
how things will be arranged.
DISCUSS THESE IDEAS:
If you start your career early, you are likely to be successful.
If you don’t get a good education, you are unlikely to achieve anything.
If you work really hard, you are sure to be successful.
Good connections and a good education won’t help without a bit of luck.
Discuss topic:
E.g. The best place to relax
Discuss a quotation:
E.g. “Genius is one per cent inspiration
and ninety-nine per cent perspiration”
Thomas Edison
Commenting on a proverb:
E.g. There is no place like home
Objects (E.g. a plastic bag, a spray, a can). Discuss their positive and negative influence on the environment
Is aimed at exchanging ideas or opinions
on a certain topic providing arguments.
Survival games
List of objects:
axe gun
blanket guitar
clock hammer
Finding a solution to a problem
E.g. Lots of tourists have come to the city but all the hotels are already booked.
is based on finding a way out of some
difficult situations.
Presenting a trade mark
News report
Personal introduction collage
Long-turn speech techniques
is based on oral report as a demonstration
or presentation of information collected as a
result of group-work.
Memories.
E.g. Once my mother and me, when I was 5, went to the zoo. We saw…
Sequence of pictures
Picture story
is a kind of a composition written in a free form
in contrast to a letter or an essay.
Соотнесите блюда с разделами меню:
Закуски (startes)
Основные блюда (main courses)
Десерты (desserts)
*roast beef with green salad*cheesecake*
broccoli and tomato salad*chocolate cake*mushroom soup*fruit salad*grilled steak*potato salad*baked salmon with boiled
vegetables*spaghetti bologhese
at a restaurant
It’s delicious
Table for two,
table by the window,
Table in the garden
Could I have the bill,
please?
What would you recommend?
To make an order
Cold/spicy/hot
What would you like for
a starter/for dessert?
Вы в ресторане. Позовите официанта и:
-попросите столик на двоих у окна
-попросите меню и спросите официанта, что бы он порекомендовал
-закажите ростбиф с зелёным салатом для себя и лосося с овощами для друга
-спросите друга вкусно ли приготовлена курица
-скажите, что лосось слишком сухой
--спросите друга, будет ли он десерт
-попросите счёт
Could you bring us the menu?
What kinds of techniques can you
determine here?
В каких из этих домов вы хотели бы жить? Аргументируйте, используя критерии:
Comfortable Uncomfortable
Expensive Cheap
Easy to look after Difficult to look after
Quiet Noisy
Cottage, block of flats, terraced house, palace, country mension, detached house.
Какие пункты являются недостатками, а какие –достоинствами
при покупке или аренде жилья?
*central heating
*balcony
*garden
*lift
*garage
*nice neighbourhood
*windows overlooking a busy street
Parking space
rent
pay in advance
access to the kitchen
furnished/unfurnished
Living room overlooks a park
cooking facilities
private bathroom
balcony
shared kitchen
quiet neighbourhood
Housing
Вы хотите снять комнату на год. Узнайте:
-насколько комната светлая и просторная,
-есть ли в комнате мебель,
-какой вид из окна (есть ли поблизости зелёная зона),
-есть ли в комнате балкон,
-будет ли у вас своя ванная,
-тихая ли комната.
-можно ли пользоваться кухонными приборами
room/flat rental
What kinds of techniques can you
determine here?
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