Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Using sitcom for teaching basic grammar

Using sitcom for teaching grammar

Teaching Tool
1. Kahoot
2. Sitcom
   


















Extra@, Kim's convenience
3. Pairwork worksheet
4. Worksheet(Describe 10 iconic painting)

Monday, June 8, 2020

ios friendly teaching tools(Loom, lonely screen) & some trials on screencasting tools

Name:  Taylor Kim



Workshop Topic
ios friendly teaching tools(Loom, lonely screen) & some trials on screencasting tools 
Source of Inspiration/Curiosity
(personal experience, workshop, observation, etc)
As a big fan of Apple devices(currently owning iphone, ipad, apple watch, airpod pro),
I have wanted to use them for educational purposes as well as for looking cool.
In addition, the corona virus situation forced me to pay attention to some kinds of
“education using modern technology” such as online learning, flipped learning,
blended learning, etc. 
Language Skills Targeted:
4 skills are targeted but this time reading is my main focus
Objective
Getting potential benefits of screencasting mentioned on
Materials/Tools Needed
Laptop, i phone or ipad
Challenges, Benefits, & Extensions

Some of the screencasting programs offer significant functionality only in premium versions. 
Android friendly screencasting tools do exist but it doesn’t have good quality and require
payment
ios friendly screencasting tool(loom) offers a pro version for verified teachers in this
COVID 19 situation.
You can’t make fancy videos but can save your time making ones.
Some 
Discussion Questions
  • When making supplementary reading explanation videos for students,
how can we make it attractive ( at least not boring)?
  • If I make videos for students based on their English levels, teaching purposes,
or something, how can we specify them?

         : Add questions, puzzles
         : Make it short
         : Add some while lecture tasks such as counting how many time a teacher coughs
         : Encourage students to be a part of it e.g. use CTA(Call To Action) fuctions
         : make different videos based on teaching purpose


‘Find someone who’ game for the whole class ( Let’s go together )



Workshop Topic
‘Find someone who’ game for the whole class ( Let’s go together )

Language Skills Targeted: Speaking, Listening

Resource book : pp.62-65, Games for Grammar practice, Maria Lucia Zaorob and Elizabeth Chin, Cambridge university press.

Objective
  - Students can be able to speak the expressions about making appointments.


Materials/Tools Needed
PPT, Cards(One per student), Schedule board(One per person)


Grammar Race

* Workshop Topic : Grammar Race (Teaching Grammar for elementary students)

* Source of Inspiration/Curiosity
(personal experience, workshop, observation, etc)

During language lessons, teachers often discover students’ mistakes. Research said direct revision is not good for language learners, because it makes learners unconfident. When it comes to teaching English especially for elementary students, keeping them motivated and confident are the key points. Through this lesson, We try to focus on fluency as well as accuracy. There are two ways of teaching grammar. Giving feedback to the students directly, explicitly and indirectly, implicitly. Both have good and bad effects. If we address the issue directly then It can hinder student’s confidence and cut the natural flow. But Student’s notice what is wrong and how to fix it. If we give feedback implicitly, then student’s can still focus on their work, but some of the students might not notice the errors. We’ve thought about how to fix their mistakes not explicitly in a good way and found out one fun and proper way of feedback by the teacher's training course. This is simple and fun for students as well as teachers. We don’t need to spend our efforts to prepare lessons.


* Language Skills Targeted:  Reading , Writing

* Objective : Students can recognize their mistakes naturally and fix them with pleasure and ease.

* Materials/Tools Needed : worksheet

* Challenges
1) Every member in each group has numbers.
2) Number1 students in each group go to the worksheets and tear out one sentence strip from the
worksheet and go back to their own group.
3) Every group member finds the mistake in the sentence and fixes it together.
    (Every sentence in the worksheet has 1 or 2 mistakes.) 
4) Number 1 students go to the teacher and check the answers.
5) If the answer is correct, Number 2 student takes a turn.
    If the answer is wrong, number 1 student should go to the own group and try the same steps till the answer is correct.
6) The group finishing fixing all mistakes first will be the winner.    


* Benefits
1) Students can fix mistakes with fun and ease. 
2) Students can speak and read aloud the target words repeatedly and naturally.
3) Teachers can prepare materials easily.

 * Extensions
: We can apply it to learning phrases and simple target sentences.




Mini-Presentation: Small movement activities

MINI-PRESENTATION OVERVIEW
Name: Sue, Dahee, So-yeon

Workshop Topic

Small movement activities
(Some games that involve physical activities.)


Source of Inspiration/Curiosity
(personal experience, workshop, observation, etc)

Most elementary school students like physical activities.
Even when they come to the English classroom, they always talk about P.E. so we wanted to make English class like P.E.
These games would make students feel interested and learn more efficiently.

  1. TPR Song
On In Under
Action Song
Goal : Preposition 
Goal : Action verb
The Sit Down, Stand up Song
Alphabet Dance
Goal : Action verb
Goal : Alphabet



Challenges, Benefits, & Extensions

<Challenges>

-Students can be tired after doing these games so it should be the final activity.
-It will be noisy if we don’t explain about the game rules well.
-There should be a big room for students to move round.

<Benefits>

- All students can feel excited about doing these activities.
- Students can learn key-expression while enjoying the class.

<Extensions>

- We can change the length of sentences for students who have a higher level.


Discussion Questions

- Are there any other activities something like these?

- How can we control students who are quarrelsome?