Category Archives: Матеріали для вчителів
Flashcard Stories
Level: Beginning +
Provides Practice of: speaking, listening
Grammar: any chosen by the teacher or student
Vocabulary: any chosen by the teacher or student
Materials: flashcard pictures
Time: 15 minutes
Procedure: Choose about 5-6 flashcards from the pile that will make a story. Give each group of students one set. As a warm up, ask them to put together what they think the story is that you thought about beforehand. Ask the students to show the rest of the class their flashcards while telling their story. Then, you can tell the students the teacher version of the story. After this warm-up activity, give each group of students a set of approximately 20-30 flashcards or more if available. The students have 5 minutes to create a story using as many flashcards as possible, without skipping cards (they must use each flashcard as it is picked from the top of the pile). Allow each group to tell their stories. Usually, they will be very funny and creative, sometimes not making sense at all, and sometimes very elaborate. The group which used the most cards wins. If a lot of time is available, you may also ask students to write down their stories as they pick up each flashcard from the pile.
Comics
Level: Beginning +
Provides Practice of: speaking, listening, writing, reading
Grammar: any chosen by the student or teacher
Vocabulary: any chosen by the student or teacher
Using Pictures from Magazines by Joep van der Werff
Information compiled by Patricia Lozoya
The purpose of this article is to show that pictures from magazines are a source of varied classroom activities in the areas of speaking, listening, writing, vocabulary and grammar. I’ll give tips on how to collect and sort suitable pictures and I’ll include several sample activities. Teachers can use the activities as they are presented, or adapt them to fit their needs.
Introduction
Several years ago I was teaching a beginning level class. One student in the group, Juan, seemed particularly shy, he was afraid of making mistakes, and reluctant to participate. One day, I gave each student an unusual picture of a person, and I asked them to describe the people in the pictures. Juan’s photograph showed a young woman swimming with a killer whale in a deep blue sea. Juan came up with a remarkably long story about a woman who had a pet killer whale. When he gave his description, Juan’s classmates were fascinated by his vivid imagination. Juan was surprised and thrilled by his classmates’ appreciation. He instantly lost his inhibitions toward speaking English in class, and he participated actively from then on.
Using Pictures and Magazines in the Classroom
Seminar for teachers on the topic “Using Pictures and Magazines in the Classroomwas” was organized in Sevastopol City University of Humanities by Patricia Lozoya, PCV. The seminar lasted for two hours and 5 minutes. The teachers learned to collect pictures and comic strips to use in their classrooms, discussed and identified why pictures are useful, practiced with various sample activities using pictures and comic strips, identified pictures with which to practice specific topics and grammar, developed student activities to do with pictures. Read More