Planning effective lessons and courses for primary
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√ Key characteristics of childhood√ Children as language learners√ Teaching children: main
considerations√ A lesson cycle√ Sample activities
Agenda
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Before we start….
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Task 1: Complete the statements with your own ideas
• Children…..• Children learn….• Teaching children…..• A motivated child…• An unmotivated child…..
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Children….
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5-7-year olds
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5-7-year olds as language learners
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TPR
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Song, chants and rhymes
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Phonics
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Identifying initial and final sounds in words
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Manipulating sounds (deleting, adding, substituting)
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Recognizing and creating rhymes
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Segmenting and blending individual sounds in words
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Segmenting and blending onsets and rimes
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Word boundaries
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7-9-year olds as language learners
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Topics
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Extensive Reading
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Writing
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9-11-year-olds
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9-11-year olds as language learners
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Topics
•Level 4•Level 5•Level 6
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Input
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Cognitive exploration
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Children learn….
Children are active learners and thinkers
Children learn through social interaction
Children learn effectively through scaffolding by adults
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Teaching children…..
Purposeful
Full of practice
MeaningfulSocial
Supported
Enjoyable
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The motivated child….
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The unmotivated child…
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CREATE A POSITIVE ATTITUDE TOWARDS ENGLISH
Need and desire
Varied inputExperiment
COMMUNICATIONTake risks
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Goals
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Routine and surprise
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Variety
Settling activities
Stirring activities
Multisensory learning
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Classroom routines
Speaking in English!
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Involvement
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Familiarity
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Visuals
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A unit of work
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A lesson cycle
Opening
Stimulation
Instruction- participation Closure
Follow-up
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Opening a lesson
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What are the aims of the lesson? What prior knowledge do students need to work
through the lesson?Do I need to pre teach something?
aims
How can we organize it all in the wb?
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Stimulation
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• How can I help students relate the topic of the lesson to their lives?
• How can I grab sts´attention?• How can I lead them into the lesson?
Visuals (pictures, realia) – sounds – sounds and images – riddle/puzzle – game
– acting out – wordwebs – asking questions – recap on book´s story
wordwebs
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Listen and predict
Peephole
Instruction/participation
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• How can I check students´understanding?• How can I encourage participation?• How can I encourage interaction?
Ways of checking understanding
Do you understand?
Ok?
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Techniques
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• Target sentence: Look! They're painting the wall
– Is it happening now?– Yes– Can you see it? – Yes– Is the painting finished?– No– Are they painting now?– Yes– Is this the past, present or future? – Present
Concept questions
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• Target sentence: She's a shop assistant. She works in a shop
– Has she got a job?– Yes– Is she working now– Don't know– Does she work there every day?– Yes– Is this the past, present or future? – Present, but also past and probably future.
Concept questions
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Interaction and participation
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Groupwork/pairwork/workstations
Find sb who…Role play
GamesWriting togetherJigsaw reading
Closure
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• How can I evaluate my students´learning?• Were the aims of the lesson achieved?
Communication
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Can students use the target language spontaeously?
√ Class surveys√ Conversation grids√ Line dialogue√ Jeopardy game
surveys
Conversation grids
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Follow-up
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• How can I reinforce learning?• How can I prepare them for next lesson?
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√ Songs√ Pronunciation spot√ Bingo√ Scrapbook√ Learner development activities√ Picture dictionary
Settling activities
Stirring activities
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Settling activities calm students down and allow them to settle into routine.
Stirring activities energize and activate students.
Word play – running dictation – whole class listening - read and draw – competition games – role
play - songs and chants – surveys – mingles – arts and
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