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According to our national curriculum one of the competences is to develop speaking/communication skills. This competence requires accurate presentation of a verbal message, participating in dialogues on familiar topics in everyday life situations. The students must be able to identify key information from audio or video messages. They must identify and distinguish stylistic registers of the audio messages and establish relations between speakers, narrate the content of a film/ of a story/ an article on the basis of a given plan. During a lesson the teacher can’t dedicate too much time to develop speaking skills and not all students have the possibility to speak and express themselves. Online tools may easily help the teacher and the student as well to enhance their speaking skills. The platforms , which I want to present, give our students the opportunity to practice speaking. In order to register an excellent presentation they will register it not only once, and not twice , but may be three and more times. Only when they are happy with what they hear they will publish it. In class, for sure they don't have the possibility to say again what they have already said, and, of course, they don't hear themselves when they speak in class. At home they listen to their speech and they may notice some mistakes, and after the teacher comments their work they can reregister it again. I would love to present you three of these amazing tools: Voicethread, Voki and UtellStory, which may help the students to enhance their speaking skills.
Here you can follow a tutorial and learn how to create a voki. Your voki may be used as short presentation at the beginning of the year or as an introduction to a topic. It is funny and students will love it, primary school pupils will adore using it. A pretty nice tutorial how to sing up and how to use UtellStory Pupils very easily get acquainted to this tool and create projects with pleasure. UtellStory projects created by my students http://straightedgeisme.weebly.com/showcase.html
Follow the link to see some assignments done with the help of Voicethread:
http://ratanatalia.weebly.com/11th-form/ludwig-van-beethoven
I am just at the beginning of this path full of different possibilities and I am going to explore it more and more. I advise you to explore the online tools and use them with your students. Good Luck! STEP #1: HEADING Date: February Teacher’s name: Level: Upper –intermediate Subject: English as a first language STEP #2: TOPIC Topic: Cinema and Films STEP #3: GOALS, OBJECTIVES, MATERIALS The students will be able 1.to name the film nominations 2.to distinguish the genres of films 3.to put down at least three features of a genre 4.to write a 10 sentence article about a film. 1.Students will be able to decode unknown vocabulary in context; will learn new words and expression about cinema 2.Studentswill be able to hold a conversation - will create and deliver a formal speech that will contain arguments based on sound reasoning. 3.Students will form positive attitudes toward films and cinema. Materials: text book, smart board, handouts, vocabularies, youtube video, tagxedo. STEP #4: PROCEDURE At home Ss had to learn the vocabulary http://quizlet.com/70165947/oscar-nomination-flash-cards/ and had to watch a a short video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfI_MedylWQ In class Evocation "Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language" Walt Disney Do you like to watch films? Have you ever watched a Oscar Nomination? From the video you have watched at home what film nominations do you remember? Brainstorm ideas: A film is nominated for... Ss make up sentences e.g. A film is nominated for the soundtrack. What genre of film do you like to watch?(action film, horror films, detectives) I present them a Tagxedo Find in the Tagxedo as many genres of films as you can. http://www.tagxedo.com/artful/21c9fd4b237a4210 Realization of the Meaning Group work(three groups) Watch the short trailers and say what genre of fims they are Enumerate three things that characterize that genre The first group The second group The third group Complete the mindmap speaking about the trailer you have watched Reflection Listen to a film review Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and be ready to make your film review. You can also read the newspaper article about Harry Potter film. Choose a film you have recently watched and begin writing a review to this film within the group(each member writes a sentence and passes the paper to the next)
Read what you have written to other groups. Homework follow the link and learn how to write a good review. http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/writing-film-book-review.php#.VNejN_msWN1 Use the link to write a newspaper article about a good film you have watched and you want to recommend to your classmates. http://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp Grading Ss using the 10-1 grading system.
But there are other several platforms which can be used. I propose you three of them: a) Blogger http://www.bloggerthemes.net/ b) Wordpress http://theme.wordpress.com/ c) Weebly http://www.weebly.com/themes/ So, why blogs? What can you do using a Blog?
Here is a list of different dictionaries: www.thefreedictionary.com http://quotes.dictionary.com/ Merriam-Webster Visual online dictionary http://itools.com/tool/cambridge-international-dictionary-of-idioms http://www.forvo.com/ http://www.ozdic.com/
Online Tools to enrich students' vocabulary:
- And now you can watch, read, listen and analyze some hometasks created using these tools: http://ru.padlet.com/Nicoleta/4m8n2ik14utm http://colericii.weebly.com/hometasks/nature http://gruscadumitru.weebly.com/the-11th-grade/the-exclusive-circle-health-hazards http://ratanatalia.weebly.com/second-language/life-in-the-future12th-form
Sign up and create https://studio.stupeflix.com/en/education/ http://www.picovico.com/app/index.html?ref=picovico.com&at=1422303414 https://animoto.com/business/education Brows through these pupils videos https://studio.stupeflix.com/v/x47EyOyihK4H/ https://studio.stupeflix.com/v/kcviH3TW06Gs/ https://studio.stupeflix.com/v/dBZ9qICDZYUh/ UtellStory, Narrable and Voicethread projects are good for creating and sharing audio slideshows. To create and share your story through them you can upload pictures, add text captions, add audio narration to each slide, and upload a soundtrack to support your entire story. Your students can illustrate their essays with pictures and read them using these tools. You can assess with their help pupils' speaking abilities. You may find here pupils' works: https://voicethread.com/new/share/6481394/ http://vickypostovic.weebly.com/showcase.htm teacher's assignment using video tools: http://cazacuveronica.weebly.com/assignments/video-task Feel free to brows through the Flipped lessons created by our Moldovan teachers: http://classroomblogzabriceni.weebly.com/our-english-classroom/lets-flip-it http://ratanatalia.weebly.com/assignments/travelling http://colericii.weebly.com/hometasks/january-hometask http://vgaidar.weebly.com/-students-blog/9th-form-lesson-plan
http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/ Feel free to experiment with Rubrics, which will help not only you but your students to do their hometasks according to certain criteria. I hope the information presented was useful for you. I will post some more links and useful tools which can help you. Discover the world of new technologies and be creative. Good luck! http://eflbloggingmoldova.weebly.com/assignments If you have any questions or you need some help, please write in comments and I will answer. Thank you! Dear teachers, I wanted to thank you for coming and being active during the training. I hope my presentation will be useful for you. I am waiting for your comments. |
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