Use of Recording Technology in the Tutorial Rooms

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.

Presentation handouts

PowerPoint slides

Reading Swap Shop

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

Download Reading Swap Shop Folder

A Discourse Approach to Teaching Reading/Writing

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

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.

Download Meaning-Focused Dictation Folder

Guidelines on Plagiarism

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.

Level 3 Quotation Marks Answer Sheet

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

Writing Swap Shop Folder

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

writing swap shop folder 1

writing swap shop folder 2

Level 1 Speaking Task 1 Overview

This is a description of the first Speaking Task for Level 1 Eigo II A.

Level 1 Eigo IIA Speaking Task 1 Overview + Worksheets

Meet Your Teacher: Editing Pracitce Activity

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).

Download Meet Your Teacher Editing Practice activity here.

Presentation Checklist

This checklist was adapted from the Oxford University Press video: Making Effective Presentations.

Download Presentation Checklist