Thursday, October 5, 2017

Pronunciation Practice with Google Doc Voice Typing

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Lists and audio at: http://pufspronunciation.blogspot.com/
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Pronunciation Practice
Lists and audio at: http://pufspronunciation.blogspot.com/

Minimal pairs
beat – bit - Pete – pit                       

rice - rise

ride – lied - wide

fall – far

class - clash

seat – sheet

won't - want

though - dough

band - bend
reach - rich - leech - which

zoo – Jew - shoe - chew - sue               

very – berry – fairy – Perry

major - measure

thing – think

thin – sin – shin

bone – born

low - law - row - raw

liter - litter


Sentences
  1. It's really too late to wait.
  2. What's the lowdown on the raw fish law?
  3. After a week, I think these leeks smell really bad. They reek.
  4. Sue went to the zoo and saw some sheep.
  5. The crew didn't' have a clue.
  6. If we flee, we will be free.
  7. Did Blake break the plate?
  8. Did Susan feel fear when she saw one more mole?
  9. It is hailing and it got in my hair. Are you hearing me?
  10. The meal was a mere five dollars.
  11. There were very many berries in the valley.
  12. There's a ban on putting fans in a van.
  13. There was a lot of pressure to measure the major explosion.
  14. Put the sheet on the seat before you sit on it.
  15. The frog would leap from one small leaf to another .
  16. Most of you must bowl with the red ball.
  17. She won't want to walk there.
  18. I wish she wasn't a witch.
  19. The cab driver wore a cap with a simple symbol.
  20. I only have half of the fee.
  21. Please sit in the soft seat.
  22. We hissed and booed as we watched the conclusion.
  23. We ditched the party and washed our car.
Paragraph


Mary is thirty-one years old. She has lived in New York City for 18 months and never wants to leave. She got her degree in Fine Arts and now works as a consultant for a marketing firm. She loves Manhattan for all it has to offer and probably won’t ever move away.


In her free time, she likes to go bowling and take photographs. She also likes reading thrillers and mystery novels.When she has guests in town and it's warm, she might take them to the Central Park Zoo or walk along the East River to enjoy the view of the Brooklyn Bridge. It is a pleasure for her to show them the town.

New York is well known for its restaurants. One of Mary's favorite places is called The Wood Grill.
Her friend James is a waiter there. Sometimes she'll go there for brunch because it's fairly cheap.

Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Jigsaw Reading

1. Movie Quiz (Ice-Breaking with Word Art)
: Read the keywords quickly and guess the movie title.

2. Share Your Ideas with Guessing
: Look at the three pictures carefully and guess the answers for the questions.
- What country do they from?
- Why do you think so?
- What are they doing?

3. Jigsaw Reading
: Read their own text in an expert group and report to the home group
: Record the information on the graphic organizer

4. Share Your Ideas with Voting
: Talk about which movie Ss will watch next class and vote one.

 

Saturday, August 26, 2017

Reading class(Guessing game, Station Activity, Ticket to the door)

1. Introduction : Guessing Game
- Giving 5 clues related to a topic. Show one by one.
- If ss get a right answer with less clues, they can get more point.

2. Whlie- and after-reading activity : A Station Activity

3. Ticket to the door : Completing a Flight Ticket

TD #3 : 2 Acronyms & 1 Antonym, Class Feud

Activity 1: 2 Acronyms & 1 Antonym
(Originated from True and False Definition @UQ)

- Distribute worksheet with target word in pairs.



- Ask each pair to find 2 synonyms and 1 antonym at thesaurus.com.
- Take turns in pairs to ask other groups to guess the antonym.


Activity 2: Class Feud
(Inspired by Family Feud from Noel's class)

- Make students in 2 groups.
- Each group takes turns and guess Top 7 most common teenage problems.
- If a team gets the 1st correct, the team gets 7 score. 2nd, 6pts. 3rd, 5pts. .... 7th. 1pt. 
- With those items, students can involve in writing activity.


        

Friday, August 25, 2017

Padlet Discussion & Omok Reading Game

Mannequin Quiz

Mannequin Quiz is useful for reviewing and motivating.
Procedures are below.

 How to do ‘Mannequin Quiz’
1. A volunteer comes to the front.
2. The volunteer will see a picture on the phone, and freeze like a mannequin.
3. Guess what the mannequin is doing. “He/She is ____________ing.”
4. Everybody asks a question; “What are you doing?.”
5. Mannequin answers; “I’m ______________.”

 

Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Teaching Demo: Symbols Around the World

Pace reading + Group teaching


[Pace reading]


1. Let the students listen to the recording of the text using the software first.
2. Let the students read the text out loudly at the same pace of the recording.
3. Slowly turn down the volume of the recording and stop. Make the students guess where we stop.
4. It's a pair work. Let the students disscuss together with their partner.

Pace reading is a very easy way to make Ss focus on the text.

[Group Teaching]

1. Divide the text into four parts and write down the things the Ss should cover.
2. Make four students into one group.
3.  Assign each students their part.
4.  The Ss take turn and teach each other.
5. After all the students have their turns, check their comprehension with Quizziz.



Vocabulary Spinner

1. Give a set of cards and a spinner to each group.
2. Students flick the arrow in the middle of the spinner and flip one card over.
3. Students have to do or say as the arrow indicates.




Review the last semester

* Worksheet (☜ Click) : Students review what they learned during the first semester with the worksheet

  1. Functions - to apologize, to ask meaning, to ask permission, to give advice, and so on
  2. Forms - tell O to R, that, to-infinitive(adj. & adv.), have pp, comparative, too ~ to R, relative pronoun, and so on

* Card game (☜ Click)

  1. There are two sets of cards: categories & words
  2. Put the category set on the table (face down)
  3. Make groups of 4
  4. Each student has 7 word cards
  5. Put the rest of word cards on the table facing down
  6. Students flip one category card at a time and make a sentence with the word on their cards in turn
  7. If s/he makes a proper sentence with their card, they can put their card on the word card set on the table
  8. If s/he can’t make a proper sentence with his/her card, s/he should pick up one card from the table and pass the turn
  9. The person who abandons his/her word cards will be the winner

wizer.me - online worksheet


Wizer.me is a free online tool that allows teachers to make interactive worksheets. Wizer.me uses Html 5 technology-which means that it will work on any Internet-enabled device including smart phones, tablets and iPads. 

To begin using Wizer.me, you need to create a free account. You only need to provide an email address and a password to create an account.  Once you create your account, you will be able to start creating your online worksheets. You simply type the title of your worksheet, and then add the content you want. Wizer.me calls this content  "tasks" and there are currently 11 tasks that you can use-though more features will be added soon. There is no limit to the number of tasks you use for your worksheets and you can make as many worksheets as you like.  


video guide: https://www.google.co.kr/search?q=wizer.me&tbm=vid&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj7t9jgmOzVAhXBwLwKHXV2B48Q_AUICygC&biw=1366&bih=613&dpr=1


CREATE WORKSHEETS
Add video, audio, images and a variety of question types, all wrapped in a beautiful, engaging & easy to use app.
ASSIGN TO STUDENTS
1-click to share with students via Google Classroom or any learning management system.
ASSESS ANSWERS
Save time with automatic checking & grading, or review one by one to give more personal feedback.
SHARE & DISCOVER
Browse the Wizer collection of FREE digital learning resources created by our community of teachers.

plickers

https://www.plickers.com/
Plickers lets you poll your class for free, without the need for student devices. Just give each student a card (a "paper clicker"), and use your iPhone/iPad to scan them to do instant checks-for-understanding, exit tickets, and impromptu polls. Best of all, your data is automatically saved, student-by-student, at plickers.com.




Language Through Film


This class is "Language through Film". Students watch this movie for 10 minutes and then dictate while listening. The final step is a game activity which is called "board game". It is a group work and students need dice, question cards and board game.
Excel file

Into the Sea of English Songs

PPT
Google Slides
This song lesson is combined with kinesthetic elements to memorize and remember English songs  longer making a group of students create a music video for each song.

Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Lessons with Precepts & Wise Sayings

Mr. Browne’s usage of precepts inspired me to try something like this in my undergraduate composition classes.

  This Google Document contains a list of all saying and short descriptions of related lesson activities. Please add other wise sayings and ideas about how to use them in our teaching.



Saturday, July 8, 2017

Speech Mimicking


Speech Mimicking  involves using a variety to techniques to copy the speaking patterns of a recorded piece of language with the goal of getting close to native speaker pronunciation and intonation.


The method includes:

  • Make notes on the  transcript to indicate pauses, changes in pitch, word linking, and other speech patterns
  • Read lines into Google Translate the check word level pronunciation
  • Listen/Repeat (sentence by sentence)
  • Listen/Whisper Adjust playback speed if necessary.
  • Listen/ Shadow Read (turn the volume down)
  • Record again. Listen. Circle parts that need the most improvement.
    Practice those parts.
  • Try anything else you think will be helpful

 Speech Mimicking Videos

 Speech Mimicking Transcripts






Thursday, June 29, 2017

Shadow Writing

Shadow Writing is useful for writing.
Procedures are below.

 How to do ‘Shadow Writing’

1. It is a pair work.
2. Look at the pictures and draw circles on the words that explain what he/she is doing.
3. Write present progressive sentences using words on the picture.
4. Take turns when you write.


Friday, June 23, 2017

Grammar Lesson: perceptive verbs



Perception verbs + O + RV/~ing

worksheet


Activity/Time
Details
TEE Language Used
Introduction>
-We are One!/5min
/group activity
  • Have Ss review the previous lesson for themselves in a group
  • Ss should reach a consensus while filling out the group worksheet
  • Each Ss fill out their own worksheet (The answers should be the same with the group ones)
As a group, all your members should share the knowledge what we learned. Only king in your group should write down on your group worksheet. After group discussion, you should complete your own review worksheet and it should be almost the same with your group worksheet.
Development1>
catch the scene
/7min
/group activity
  • For minutes, Ss should remember the picture in which some people are doing something
  • Ss make sentences with perception verbs
Watching the picture, you should remember the people’s name and what they are doing. And then you make sentences with 지각동사 as many as you can.
Development2>
You are the witness/ Group and Individual activity
  • A kind of Information gap activity
  • Given the picture card, Ss deliver what they saw, heard and felt to the others
  • In a group, Ss gather the information they heard and find the suspects
  • Check the sentences Ss made on the padlet
With the given clue card, you should make sentences with 지각동사. And tell the sentences you made to your friends. Get and collect sentences as many as you  can. Finally you can find the suspects. Check the answers with Paddlet.

Teaching Demonstration2 - Narae

<Reading comprehension review>
1. Listening to the reading material by looking the screen.
2. Reading aloud the reading material by looking at the textbook.
3. Ss are given white small cards and a big yellow card from a teacher. The white ones should be face down before starting an activity. Each in a group face up each white card by reading aloud the sentence and match it to the proper character in a yellow paper.
4. Ss are given token chips which are written a question and an answer. Ss make 2 lines and face each other and ask a question and answer it. Each in a line moves to next to seat after their work.
5. Each in a group has to make a question by using "How" and make a conclusion about the topic.

Use of integrated four skills in one class (Personality & Blood types)

1. Listening & Reading
-have students stand up and sit down only if they say one word or phrase after listening to the text
-Make Ss listen to the text and fill in the blanks of the text

-read the text and explain some expressions to help students understand the text



2. Vocabulary
-Introduce more vocabulary for describing personality through flashcards in Quizlet

3. Speaking
-In group of 4, each student say some sentences using key patterns to guess personalities and blood types of three people in turn

4. Writing
-Make Ss write about their personalities and share what they write with their group members. Let other students guess their group members’ personalities

Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Make your own monster

Make your own monster

1. Show the example to students
2. Students make their own monster on their worksheet.
3. Take a picture and then upload their own Worksheet at padlet.
4. Students look at worksheets of other students and then choose a best picture.

Running Drawing Dictation

look for two kids
1. Allocated roles(runner, writer, draw, helper)
2. Do the activity (The paper is on the table. A teacher only show a sentence and then the other sentences are hided.)
 3. Take a picture and then upload group worksheets at padlet app

Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Jigsaw Reading Activity with Wizer.me and Padlet

A. Comprehension Check-up with Wizer.me

  1. Each student reads the given paragraph individually.
  2. Pair Work
     - Students tell what they read to their partners in their own words.
     - Students listen carefully what their partners say and take notes.

   3. Students access to Wizer.me( http://wizer.me ) with given student codes, type in their names and solve the assigned questions about their partners' paragraphs.
     ( sample code: FGLDGX for student A )

   4. After students hand in their answers online, teacher can check the students' results.


B. Cooperative Sentence Sequencing with Padlet
  
  1. Group Work
     - Students retell the stories they listened to the other pairs in their groups.
     - Students listen carefully what the other pairs say.

  2. Students access to Padlet assigned to their groups. (example: http://goo.gl/BMA98j )
  3. Students reorder the sentences according to the stories they listened in their groups.
4. The team that finishes first would be the winner.

* Powerpoint Presentation link for the class:

Vocabulary Check-up Activity with Quizlet Game

- If you already have word sets on Quizlet, your students can get access to Quizlet word-matching game without their own accounts. (http://goo.gl/hky6kv)

- For students' convenience, you can create a short URL with Google URL Shortener.
  (http://goo.gl)

The first student who makes every word disappear would get a bonus point.

Giving Advice Writing Activity

A. Brainstorming with Popplet.com
   1) Topic: What teenagers worry about?
   2) My example: goo.gl/g673w1
   3) You need to do some works with your students in advance.
       -Your students need an account to use popplet.
       -To share your popplet, please click share -> add collaboartor -> enter name or e-mail address
-> add them

B. Writing activity with PiratePad
   1) Read top 3 problems of teenagers.
   2) In pairs, write 1-2 sentences for each problem anonymously, using target expressions.
   3) Share the ideas together and vote for the best advice.
   4) My example: goo.gl/ro4kk7

Padlet Discussion & Omok Reading Game

<Padlet Discussion>
  * Padlet - Team A / Team B
1. Discuss what role will be given to each person. (among celebrities)
2. Drag the person under each role and write the reason. 

<Omok Reading Game> 

 * Worksheet - Omok Game Board
 * Worksheet - Omok Game Questions
1. Choose the place that you want and answer the question for it. 
(ex. If you want to take the No.59 square, you have to answer the question No.59.) 
2. If you get it right, you can draw a circle. 
3. Take turns drawing circles until any team gets 5 circles in a row.

Pyramid Discussion

Drawing Relay Activity

A. Target language : giving advice expressions

B. Procedures
   1) In your groups of 4, 3 people become sketchers and 1 person a guesser.
   2) Teacher will show advice sentences to the sketchers.
   3) The sketchers draw a picture on the whiteboard in relay.
       (10 seconds each)
   4) The guesser should answer by using target expressions.
       (such as You should~, You shouln't~, why don't you~?, etc)
   5) Each group has 3 minutes.

C. Materials
   1) Video clip to introduce this game : http://tv.naver.com/v/1660742
   2) Advice sentences : goo.gl/tncRMy


Monday, June 19, 2017

Writing Activity (Magic Pill / if-conditional)

- Warm-up activity : Telepathy game with blanked sentences
- Writing activity : Writing a prescription card for a patient (using if-clause)
1. (in pair) pick a problem card and figure out what the situation is
2. (in pair) share their problems and take a note
3. (in pair) complete a prescription card (choose a pill / write down the reason why)
4. (in pair) share their diagnostic results to each other
5. (in a new group in which students have the same problem) share results they received and pick up one best idea
6. (in class) presentation time
- Formative Test : Padlet

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BykNMBpFOsMkQXNqUF9Zb2pmZXc

Passive voice

1. Students watch a video - EBS 3분 영문법 : Passive Voice
  While watching the video, students fill in the blanks on their worksheet.
  The teacher gives a minute for students to solve the questions before checking the answers through the video.

  수동태 학습지 ☜클릭!



2. Students complete the jewel map in groups of 4.

  How to do :  Jewel map ppt ☜클릭!

  Jewel map (B4) ☜클릭!

3. Formative test : quizizz ( 190524  

Thursday, June 15, 2017

Making Today's Food in the morning.

Dear Jeff and chefs

  As the season goes to the summer, you feel the cool in the air-conditioner.
 It seems to smell that food in  PUFS...101 Building.... So cool and so fresh in morning.
  
   PUFS in Namsandong....it's a good place to think and meditate at the Mano square in the morning.
Today, I'd like to read some books in extensive reading time.
  I love PUFS, I'd like to stay there.
  I have talked with my wife, Eugene about Jeff and new chefs like you.

  So the hectic routine is coming to me here.
  I prepare for combat with Korean Education.
  Though I am living in Busan, Korea, I miss PUFS and You.

                                                  Sincerely Richard(Sung Woo, Choi)

P.S. Jeff...my captain, always thank you so much. I miss you.
       And you're reminding me of doing homework after a long journey in Brisbane.
       I promise that I'll do that.






Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Relay Writing



Relay Writing - vocabulary learning by writing

*How to?



  • Teacher gives the starting sentence
  • Students can read only the preceding sentences
  • Students write the following part , using the target word
  • After writing their own part, fold what they read
  • Pass the paper to the next person
  • The next person do the same
  •  The whole group members write a story together and share the difference
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*advantages

- students need to write just one sentence to write a story : less burden

- students can learn how to use the words they known the meaning of

- students can read various products that they participated in