Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Professional Development | Navitas (Australia ELICOS)



key moment -

during class we looked at a vocabulary table: a way to record new words for the the duration of the course in the back of their books. Columns included item, form, collocation, pronunciation, translation, and idea. 

I kept the table on the board and during the next activity, Stop the Bus, it became useful. In Stop The Bus SS elicit from their teams TL put on slips of paper at their table. I think having the vocabulary table on the board was convenient for this activity because it could be used as an aid throughout the game: to help in their eliciting of words from their team they could also talk about the form, collocation, and idea of the word as we had seen earlier by doing the other examples on the board.
















Friday, January 10, 2014

Professional Development | Navitas (Australia ELICOS)


Setting a few alarms for class today worked well to keep us moving, to ration out time to tasks, and to maintain a good pace. 

Ss responded well to games and task-based activities.