I really enjoyed Tip 7 in how simple yet effective is to make everyday exercises more interesting, engaging, and memorable. Tip 8 is another great one. By chance, I saw Carolyn Graham once at ETJ Tokyo EXPO (English Teachers in Japan) where I was volunteering on tech support and she needed help setting up and cueing some things. I'd been wondering how to reach learners who'd felt they'd grown out of singing songs in class, her jazz chants seemed just the ticket I was looking for! However, it was a while before I had an opportunity to use them in class, but when I tried some motivation chants with 1st year uni students, it went over really well and much better than expected. So, it became 'a keeper'! I'm getting better You're getting better We're getting better now Step by step Day by day I introduced it orally first as a whole class choral listen and repeat, line by line, then building up. Teams of 4-5 then had to work together to recall and write it dow...
The question is:how much you felt they learned from doing it this way, as opposed to doing it the normal way?
ReplyDeleteJust to clarify: I'm not in favour of doing it this way every time: it's just a variation which is useful sometimes.
A compromise you might try: tell them to do all the ones they're sure they can do right, and then show them the answers to check and find out answers to the ones they couldn't do.
It's great to hear so many people trying out Penny's tips!
ReplyDeletethe task was about writing the correct forms. It was an opportunity to go through the rules to justify the answer. I think that following this technique helped them to realize which form should be used (adjective, verb, noun...). In the normal way of doing such task, they will be reluctant and not very much interested. they seemed to be engaged.
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