On November 6, 2008, Tim Marchand gave a teacher development presentation and workshop on ways to use the recording technology in the tutorial rooms (G411-G420), including video clips and activities from FE speaking and listening, reading, and writing classes, troubleshooting tips, and pros and cons of various media for saving student video clips. Tim’s handouts and PowerPoint slides from the session can be downloaded below. During the workshop, participants referred to Forrest Nelson’s student handout with instructions on how to record in the tutorial rooms. This handout can be found in the “How To Documents” Folder in Shared Files.
Use of Recording Technology in the Tutorial Rooms
November 12th, 2008 — Public Files
Reading Swap Shop
July 8th, 2008 — Public Files
This zip file contains an overview of the Reading Swap Shop, facilitated by Kay Irie on June 5, 2008, along with some of the materials presented. For more information about ideas and activities in the folder, please talk with the contributors listed below.
Kay Irie
Dan Jackson
Paul Joyce
Christine Wilby
Deborah Bollinger
A Discourse Approach to Teaching Reading/Writing
July 1st, 2008 — Public Files
In his presentation on May 13, 2008 entitled, “A Discourse Approach to Teaching Reading/Writing,” Peter McDonald considered whether modern theoretical approaches to linguistic description can be effectively applied to the teaching of reading/writing at all levels.
This zip file contains Peter’s PowerPoint presentation and handout.
Download A Discourse Approach to Teaching Reading/Writing Folder
Meaning-Focused Dictation
July 1st, 2008 — Public Files
In the LTD lunch forum on April 23rd, Jim Sick presented some variations of the traditional dictation
activity. These materials are useful both as teaching activities and as easy to create
“ongoing” assessments. The activities can easily be adapted for use at any level.
The zip file below contains Jim’s PowerPoint presentation and handout.
Guidelines on Plagiarism
March 18th, 2008 — Public Files
These PowerPoint slides contain answers for the Level 3 Eigo IIB activity based on Lional Menashe’s guidelines.
Download answer key to “Guidelines on Plagiarism” activity.
Eigo IIB Level 3 plagiarismLevel 3 Quotation Marks Answer Sheet
December 5th, 2007 — Public Files
This PowerPoint file offers a simple way for students to check their answers on the Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) Quotation Marks Exercise in the Level 3 Binder.
Quotation Marks Exercise Answer Sheet
Level 3 quoting reference WritingWriting Swap Shop Folder
December 5th, 2007 — Public Files
The lunch forum that was held on November 13 was a writing swap shop. Here are the activities and materials presented at the swap shop. For more information about these, please see the teachers listed below.
Peter Bellars
Deborah Bollinger
Damon Brewster
Alison von Dietze
Dan Jackson
Paul Joyce
Chihiro Tajima
Level 1 Speaking Task 1 Overview
October 9th, 2007 — Public Files
This is a description of the first Speaking Task for Level 1 Eigo II A.
Level 1 Eigo IIA Speaking Task 1 Overview + Worksheets
Eigo IIA Level 1 Listening and Speaking Speaking Task 1 Speaking Task 1 (Autumn) summer vacationMeet Your Teacher: Editing Pracitce Activity
June 15th, 2006 — Public Files
This is a sample activity to give students practice in using editing symbols to correct sentences generated for the “Meet Your Teacher” (Level 2) activity (submitted by Damon Brewster).
Presentation Checklist
June 7th, 2006 — Public Files
This checklist was adapted from the Oxford University Press video: Making Effective Presentations.
Download Presentation Checklist
feedback Level 3 Listening and Speaking presentation