Classroom -or peer-
teaching: trying out activities
Stage 1: preparation
Choose an activity in
order of difficulty
Stage 2: experience
Do the activity,
doing groups or
even role plays.
Stage 3: reflection
After finishing, discuss
or think about
students performace
Examples
Describing
pictures
As how
many things
are in a
picture
Comments: This is
a simple but
surprising
prodictive activity
for begginer
classes. Make sure
participants
understand that it
is only necessary
to make
contributions
Pictures
differences
Students in
pairs, each
member of the
pair has a
different
picture
Comments: A
well-know
activity which
usually
produces
plenty of
purposeful
question and
answer
exchanges. the
vocabulary is
important here
as not cheat
Things in
common
Students sit in pairs,
preferably choosing
as their partenr
someone they do
not know very well,
and talk to find out
as many tings in
common they have
Comments: an
ice-breaker
activity, which
fosters a feeling
of solidarity by
stressing shared
characteristicts of
participants
Shopping
list
Which
things of a
fantasy
would you
choose.
Comments: An
imaginative fun
activity without
answering simple
things as yes or no.
Solving a
problem
The students are told
that they are an
educational advisory
committeewich has to
advice something
To teenagers,
fairly advanced
learners.
Other kinds of spoken interaction
Interactional talk
Courtesy
Take leave
begin and end
conversations
Culture linked,
difficult to explain
the conventions in
foreing language,
teaching and
practising them.
Long turns
The ability to speak
as length is one
which adult more
advanced or
academic students
will perhaps need and
therefore needs
cultivating
Telling stories; telling
jokes, describing a
person in detail;
recounting the plot of
a film, play or book;
giving a short lecture
or talk; arguing a case
for or against a
proposal
Variated situattions,
feelings, relationships
Variety of contexts
Opportunities to try
using target language
The obvious classroom
activities to use here are
those based on the role
play.