понедельник, 30 марта 2015 г.

Different stages of lesson plans


I think the lesson stages would be in the following order:

Warmer - it is a short activity starting the lesson to involve students in the 'mood' and to engage them with the language: vocabulary games, for example, "Let's rhyme the words" (dream-cream; not-got; name-game etc), a brief mingle activity with questions 'Did you have a good time in the country?' 'Where did you go at the weekend?'

Lead-in - it precedes the main input part of the lesson to help to reinforce students' interest, set the scene, establish the context. It can be a short discussion, brainstorming around a topic.

Presentation - Students are given a model illustrating the target language in context through flashcards, text, video, audio recordings, games and so on.

Controlled practice - Students practise the target language and focus on grammatical accuracy and pronunciation. It can be drills, sentence completion, information gap by teacher's monitoring.

Free practice/production - Students practise the language focusing on fluency. The activities are role plays, discussions, projects. The teacher's role is to monitor as learners experiment with the new language.

Feedback - The teacher gives comments on performance and suggestions as to where students can improve, praises what was done well and may represent useful examples to reinforce the target language.

среда, 25 марта 2015 г.

Ways of reading


Type of text

Main subskill(s) used

reading a novel when you are on holidays
extensive reading

reading a novel for an exam

 scanning or skimming (rapidly reading a text in order to get the main ideas and sense)
looking for a recipe that uses the only 2 ingredients you have in your fridge
scanning
following a recipe for a cake that you've never made before
reading for detail
looking for a connection on a train or bus timetable to get to a friend's new house
scanning
reading job advertisements when you need to get a new job
skimming, scanning or reading for detail ( reading to get the overall understanding of a text; looking for specific information)
reading a coursebook passage accompanied by a grammar exercise
intensive reading, reading for detail
looking at the menu in a restaurant
scanning (looking for specific information)

reviewing the legal documents before you get a loan for a new house
intensive reading, reading for detail
reading an email from a friend about how stressful their week has been
extensive reading
reading an email from your boss telling you that you are not doing your job well enough
skimming (inferring the writer's attitude; reading to get the overall understanding of a text and sense)
reading a magazine in the doctor's waiting room
extensive reading, skimming

понедельник, 23 марта 2015 г.

Correction code


Dear Colleagues!
I would recommend you a code that is used by teachers to correct written mistakes.
Code
Meaning
WW
Wrong word used
WO
Wrong word order
SP
Wrong spelling
P
Wrong punctuation or punctuation missing
V
Wrong verb or verb used wrongly
T
Wrong tense
?
Meaning not clear, re-write this
^
Word missing 

пятница, 20 марта 2015 г.

Listening: a Tour of London


Listening - Motivation and mechanics


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понедельник, 16 марта 2015 г.

Some words about #EMF5

I was greatly impressed by all SPEAKERS and their Presentations:)))

I would like to describe #EMF 5 in some words:

                                  Forum Online
                     sessions presenters interviews 
             informative modern interesting brilliant 
            practise develop communicate learn discuss
              blog twitter vkontakte #efm5 facebook
                      contests win prizes highlights
                                     technology       

суббота, 14 марта 2015 г.

#EMF5. Alla L. Nazarenko "«The Power of Technologies? The Power of a Teacher? The power of a Learner?". day 3





At first Alla L.told the audience about Distance Learning (DL).


Overcoming Teacher – Learner is separation by

virtual teaching presence,

virtual learning presence

virtual cognitive presence

via interactivity of ICT.

These are discussions creating a virtual learning community.

What is discussion?

It is a “heart and soul” of distance learning.

So, students “see” each other in a virtual class (social presence). They share their  own opinions with others, agree or disagree with other learners, question their points of views, think and learn (cognitive presence).

What is the role of a teacher?

The teacher suggests issues for discussions, moderates discussions and comments on them (teaching presence).

The speaker believed that the power of a student included:

Motivation,

Self-organisation,

Responsibility.

Then Alla L. represented the English Language course “Bensons”.

After that Alla L. spoke about ‘Blended Learning’. BL is a combination of traditional F2F education and online distance learning. The aim is to enhance the efficacy of learning by creating a more effective learning environment due to investigating technologies and using their didactic potential in a traditional learning process.

The structure of a module consists of:

a plan of the lecture,
a slide presentation, 
an assignment,
a test, 
a discussion, 
learning materials. 

The students of the university participate in different 


Intercultural telecommunication projects=>
partner-universities:
universities of 4 countries of CIS: Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia and the Ukraine;
Russia and 2 universities:MSU and DSU (Dagestan);
Cultural projects:
Traditions of Hospitality,
Family Values Yesterday and Today,
Woman in Literature and in the Science,
Fairy tale as a Mirror of National mentality.