We're back in Tunis for programme 5 of Teaching English Radio!
This month the topic was 'Teaching Listening'.
In the studio this month:Ines Hfaiedh,Secondary School teacher in Bizerte,Hayfa Majoub,Secondary School in Tunis and Patric Fawcett teacher,ICT / ELT Coordinator British Council Tunis.
On the programme the teachers discussed finding a variety of materials
to help students practise listening.
If there is an audio problem teachers can even act out the tape scripts from the book or adapt and create new listening texts.When we are able to record and play audio in class, there are many possibilities- including recording native speakers or playing clips from radio programmes.
Students need a purpose for listening- with activities before, during and after listening.
There are sub-skills we can practise; for example predicting, listening for the main idea or listening for specific details.Songs are a popular source of listening material and though it's difficult to find the right song to teach a particular structure you can always use just the chorus or one verse of the song.Ines mentioned the importance of findings songs that are relevant and interesting for the students.
We heard a demonstration of using radio clips such as the weather forecast. The text is authentic and the task can be adapted to the students’ level for example the content of countries and temperatures can be useful for an Elementary class revising the topic of countries,nationalities and numbers. Patric suggested the students could record a weather forecast in conjunction with 'planning a picnic' activity,where of course it's important to know the weather in advance.
In the studio the studio audience demonstrated the describe and draw activity;each person had to draw an animal then describe their picture to another person who had to listen carefully and draw the animal.
Ines drew a cat whilst Patric did a picture of a shark swimming towards an island! This speaking and listening activity is good for those kinaesthetic/visual learners!
Patric talked about using the MP3 player to create authentic recordings:while he was in an art gallery in La Marsa he did a one-minute recording of himself talking about the paintings.With his Upper Intermediate class he played the recording in class to lead into the topic of art and then got the students to record themselves talking about various 'paintings' on the walls. He mentioned other activities that could be done with the MP3 Player and said that the students could self-assess their performance in terms of their pronunciation,fluency,grammar and vocabulary.
Hayfa mentioned using her laptop to make recordings focusing on lexical items that her students find difficult to pronounce.
Getting visitors or colleagues to walk into a classroom allows students to do real interviews in English.
So if you're lucky enough to have an English speaking friend here on holiday invite them into your classroom!
The students will really feel motivated in interviewing the person and at the same time improve their listening skills!
click http://www.radiotunisienne.tn/rtci/sounds/anglais/anglais05042013.mp3 to hear more ideas from the teachers plus activities that can be done with the MP3 Player !
Hope you enjoyed the programme!
Well it's goodbye until the next programme!
Patric
This month the topic was 'Teaching Listening'.
In the studio this month:Ines Hfaiedh,Secondary School teacher in Bizerte,Hayfa Majoub,Secondary School in Tunis and Patric Fawcett teacher,ICT / ELT Coordinator British Council Tunis.
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| Getting Ready and Deep in Thought! |
If there is an audio problem teachers can even act out the tape scripts from the book or adapt and create new listening texts.When we are able to record and play audio in class, there are many possibilities- including recording native speakers or playing clips from radio programmes.
Students need a purpose for listening- with activities before, during and after listening.
There are sub-skills we can practise; for example predicting, listening for the main idea or listening for specific details.Songs are a popular source of listening material and though it's difficult to find the right song to teach a particular structure you can always use just the chorus or one verse of the song.Ines mentioned the importance of findings songs that are relevant and interesting for the students.
We heard a demonstration of using radio clips such as the weather forecast. The text is authentic and the task can be adapted to the students’ level for example the content of countries and temperatures can be useful for an Elementary class revising the topic of countries,nationalities and numbers. Patric suggested the students could record a weather forecast in conjunction with 'planning a picnic' activity,where of course it's important to know the weather in advance.
In the studio the studio audience demonstrated the describe and draw activity;each person had to draw an animal then describe their picture to another person who had to listen carefully and draw the animal.
Ines drew a cat whilst Patric did a picture of a shark swimming towards an island! This speaking and listening activity is good for those kinaesthetic/visual learners!
Patric talked about using the MP3 player to create authentic recordings:while he was in an art gallery in La Marsa he did a one-minute recording of himself talking about the paintings.With his Upper Intermediate class he played the recording in class to lead into the topic of art and then got the students to record themselves talking about various 'paintings' on the walls. He mentioned other activities that could be done with the MP3 Player and said that the students could self-assess their performance in terms of their pronunciation,fluency,grammar and vocabulary.
Hayfa mentioned using her laptop to make recordings focusing on lexical items that her students find difficult to pronounce.
Getting visitors or colleagues to walk into a classroom allows students to do real interviews in English.
So if you're lucky enough to have an English speaking friend here on holiday invite them into your classroom!
The students will really feel motivated in interviewing the person and at the same time improve their listening skills!
click http://www.radiotunisienne.tn/rtci/sounds/anglais/anglais05042013.mp3 to hear more ideas from the teachers plus activities that can be done with the MP3 Player !
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| Thanks for listening! Bye! |
Well it's goodbye until the next programme!
Patric
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