![]() The students on the inside should be paired (looking eye-to-eye) with a student from the outside circle. This activity involves students forming two circles, one inside the other. This entry was posted in Output and tagged Grammar, Ice-breaker, Output, Speaking, Warmer on Decemby Matthew Loehrer. The student left without a seat then makes their own sentence and the process is repeated. After the last person has stated how long or how many times they have done something, everyone must take a new seat (you cannot sit in your original seat). ![]() In order to do this, he or she makes a sentence using never + the present perfect (“I have never smoked a cigarette.”) Any student that has done this action must stand up and explain how many times or for how long they have done it (“I have smoke cigarettes for many years.”) The goal for the student standing in the center is to free up a seat so he or she can sit. One student then stands in the center of the circle while all of the others are sitting around him or her. Hot Seat: Present Perfectįirst arrange all of the chairs in a circle, there should be one less chair than there are students. This entry was posted in Input, Output and tagged Input, TOEFL, Vocabulary, Warmer, Writing on Decemby Matthew Loehrer. The groups all then change places and attempt to match the terms with their definition and visual representation. Once the groups are done with their words, the cards are mixed up. So, for each card with a term on it, there will be two other cards with than correspond to this term. Using a second blank card, the group then thinks of a way to express this idea in picture or chart form. Each group much then take a blank card and write a definition of the term they’ve been given. With the class broken into small groups, the cards are distributed to evenly among the groups along with a stack of blank cards. To start, the pool of a vocabulary words or grammar concepts is written on a note cards. ![]() The aim is to have students create their own definitions of ket terms then draw a picture to represent each term. This activity requires a pool of vocabulary or grammar concepts and three notecards for each word in the pool (x2). This entry was posted in Output and tagged Grammar, Ice-breaker, Output, Warmer, Writing on Decemby Matthew Loehrer. For example, if there is an event such as “moved to France (08/2002)” and “bought my first car (05/2005)” the group can say or write, “Matt moved to France three years before Joan bought her first car.” Whichever post-it the token lands on, the person who wrote that event must explain it to the group.Īfter all of the events have been explained, the group can then practice explaining the events using a target grammar structure. Using a small trinket as a marker and a six-sided die or coin to move (heads = one move tails = two), each group member takes turn rolling and moving their token. Once everyone has completed writing their events, the groups are told to arrange the events in a line according to when they happened. The teacher instructs the students to write an important event in their life along with the month and year it happened on each post-it. Each student is given three post-it notes each. Students are divided into groups of three. This entry was posted in Output and tagged Grammar, Output, Speaking, Writing on Decemby Matthew Loehrer. We were working with tag questions this week so they developed an script based on this. It’s pretty good considering they did it in 45mins. Again, the idea is to be creative and have fun. Explain that you can go for shock value, humor, seriousness, etc. Having everyone upload their videos to youtube averts any need to download. Make sure you know how you’ll get the videos on the OHP. This means students have to get creative and think about how they can shoot a PSA in one take. When making a PSA in class, there are a few things to keep in mind: ![]() You can really fit any type of topic into a PSA. ![]() I’ve always found public service announcements to be a great place to start when making movies in class. This is a tremendous opportunity for teachers since acting out a role-play on camera is usually more exciting for students than acting one out in the classroom. The fact that everyone these days has a smartphone means that every classroom has multiple cameras. ![]()
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