October 14th, 2009 — Public Files
Enclosed the attached .zip archive are two slideshows and instructor notes for instructional materials to teach Future Conditionals and Hypothetical Conditionals (Present). These structures should be useful for students when writing the problem/solution essay.
The instructor notes are in PDF format but the slideshows are in editable .ppt and .key formats as well as PDF. The Keynotes presentations are more attractive, but Mac only.
Identical files are also on Shared Files and hard copies in the appropriate binder on the B course shelf.
Task 3 Grammar support hypotheticals and conditionals
June 21st, 2008 — Public Files
The JALT Teacher Education SIG has arranged to host an interesting talk in Chiba at the end of this month. Dr. Diane Larsen-Freeman shouldn’t need any introduction and this is a good chance to see her speak without having to make a trip to TESOL.
These details are re-posted from a JALT mailing list. Please contact the organizer directly for any additional information.
Who: Dr. Diane Larsen-Freeman
What: “The Nature of Grammar in a Task-based Approach to Language Teaching”
When: Monday, June 30, 5:00-6:30
Where: Kanda University of International Studies
Makuhari, Chiba Presentation Room, Building 6
Free Admission to JALT Members
RSVP to Chris Stillwell: stillwel atmark kanda dot kuis dot ac dot jp to reserve a space.
ABSTRACT:
Using a task-based approach to language teaching can be very useful, provided that we don’t simply overlook grammar nor that we treat grammar as form alone. In this presentation, Dr. Larsen-Freeman will challenge some usual ways of thinking about grammar and suggest an alternative, grammaring, that can work well in a task-based programme.
October 11th, 2006 — Public Files
I liked Kay’s Understanding Newspaper headlines, and added a “sentence to headlines” translation task to it. I used it to extend Passages p. 62. Students seemed to enjoy.
Understanding Headlines (JS)
October 2nd, 2006 — Public Files
This is something I put together to help students read and write newspaper headlines for Passages Unit 7 Reading (p.65 “Nutty News”). But it can be used as a prep or review of Lesson B (Waht’s in the News). The headlines are taken from real rewspapers.
Understanding Newspaper headlines.doc
April 7th, 2006 — Public Files
These handouts, based on the book, Treatment of error in second language student writing (Ferris, 2004), will help orient students in the Level 3 writing class.
There is a questionnaire about grammar knowledge, a grammar pretest, a handout for eliciting a diagnostic paragraph, and an error analysis sheet for teachers to attach to the diagnostic when returning it. This material is aimed at developing students’ self-editing skills and awareness of the main kinds of errors they make in their writing. It will give new students a general idea of what to expect later in the course, when working through drafts marked by their teacher and also provide teachers with information about students’ writing ability and understanding of how to fix errors in writing.
Here is everything in MS Word format. The files are numbered according to the sequence in which they would be used in class.
grammar questionnaire
grammar pretest
diagnostic paragraph
editing exercise
October 6th, 2005 — Public Files
A pair of handouts to familiarize Ss with a range of words and phrases used to connect ideas in writing. If your Ss are ready for something more than ‘first’, ‘next’, and ‘finally’, you may want to have a look. The handouts have clozes (based on the online quizzes for chapters 3 and 5) asking Ss to distinguish between six types of connectors followed by additional examples of each type.
It may also be necessary to teach appropriate sentence patterns. There is plenty of room to improve on these, so here they are in Word format.
Connectors 1 (alibrandi)
Connectors 2 (alibrandi)