View Content #4823
| Contentid | 4823 |
|---|---|
| Content Type | 1 |
| Title | Oral Practice & Assessment Ideas |
| Body | Recent discussions on language teaching listservs have addressed ways to foster oral practice and evaluate progress. Here is an activity that may be used with many languages and levels. Look for assessment ideas in upcoming editions of InterCom. ---- Dear Colleagues, Here is a tip that I received from a teacher of ESL at an immigration center. I hope it will be useful for you. Purpose: To give learners an opportunity to practice oral fluency, to practice prediction skills, to practice writing. Preparation Time: 15 minutes Materials: Enough pictures from a newspaper so that there is one for each pair, and the headlines that go with the pictures. Preparation: Find the newspaper pictures and cut them out of the paper. Do not include the caption. Cut out the headline for each article that goes with a picture. You should choose pictures that are not too self-explanatory so learners need to think about what the article could b e about. Put the pictures up around the classroom. Procedure: Pair up the learners. Explain that they will walk around the room in their pairs and spend 1 minute at each picture. During the minute, they should discuss what they think is happening in the picture and what the newspaper article that accompanies it is about. When learners have finished discussing each picture, give each pair a headline. They should find the picture that matches their headline and take it with them back to their seat. Based on the picture and headline, learners write a brief account of the story and summarize their stories for each other. You may want to write short summaries of the original stories for learners to compare their versions to. Ezzaradi, Z. A Tip to practice oral fluency and writing. Teachers of English to speakers of other languages electronic list. TESL-L@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (3 Feb. 2006). |
| Source | TESL-L |
| Inputdate | 2006-07-15 20:00:00 |
| Lastmodifieddate | 2006-07-15 20:00:00 |
| Expdate | Not set |
| Publishdate | 2006-07-17 00:00:00 |
| Displaydate | Not set |
| Active | 1 |
| Emailed | 1 |
| Isarchived | 1 |
