Julie launches her presentation by expressing the idea of creating real experiences to hook into the students learning.
Julie explains that English is one of the hardest languages to learn. Used the following examples:
Plural: “what is the plural of feet? Sheep?”
Homophones/Homonyms: Bear, bare and beer. The bear in the woods, bare bum and the beer drink.
Slang: Swimming togs etc.
Idioms (which English students love): students come from a home environment where Enlgish may be really structured. Therefore students could feel too insecure to speak the language in the class.
Julie suggests to get your L’s to make their own sheets, or get them to work in a group to write their own dialogue/play incorporatie the idioms. Then present and challenge others.
Rotation activities:
Marmite Mighty
Weet Bix Kids
Clothing and seasons/Me, myself and I
Construct a shopping Mall/Supermarket isle.
My House, My Castle/ Design a Body
Games
These activities are helpful to teach ESOL's NZ culture and language.
Html to resources: http://tinyurl.com/y38ht9js
We went through a variety of activities to build the children’s language vocabulary such as:
- Word association
- Comic-strip writing
- Character building profiles.
Another fruit for thought:
Revisit the Challenges we are facing
- Adaption of Learning Tasks.
- Effective use of teacher aides in the classroom.
- Varying the level of assistance.
- discussion/ sharing ideas/ suggested solutions.
