texts and dialogues training

Training  Workshop  Teaching  Texts  and  Dialogues

17th  June  2015

Let’s warm up with…

A coat of arms

Used in medieval times to show family lineage

Draw one to show the background and spirit of your team

Yo have 5 mins!

In today’s workshop, we’ll look at…

Teaching Terrible Texts

Why teach texts and dialogues?

✓ Give visible structure to a lesson

✓ Allow students to prepare and review

✓ Give students a sense of achievement

✓ Present a professional image

My name is Harry, and I hate teaching texts.

Too long

Too much detail

Unrelated to students’ lives

M4AC1: You’re the Doctor!

Grammar Vocabulary

Functional language

What’s the aim of a text?

StructureSkills

Comprehension

So how can we improve them?

Make texts…

Fun

Useful

Quick

Play a game, have a competition or use humour

Link it to the students’ everyday lives and needs

Don’t take in every word, move on swiftly!

Activities a la carte

Entrees Brainstorm activities that could help use a text or dialogue in a lesson.

Mains Consider the aim of each activity and write a one line explanation.

Desserts We will make an activity menu for everyone to use.

Activity

Menu

Putting it into practice

Pick one of your team’s ‘terrible texts’

Choose two activities that could

be applied to the text or dialogue

Prepare the two activities, including clear instructions

and materials

Present a demonstration or

walkthrough of the two activities

Re-visiting my ‘Terrible Text’

M4AC1: You’re the Doctor!

Demonstrate CPR; Students choose the

correct order

Pairs demonstrate other first aid methods, with a

similar activity

What was the point of all that?

✓ Understand the benefits of using texts and dialogues.

✓ Establish clear aims when using a the textbook material

✓ Create activity ideas we can all use in our lessons

Any questions?

Homework

Yes, homework…

1. Pick one lesson on your schedule where you hate the text or dialogue.

2. Develop a new activity for the text, with a clear plan.

3. Use the activity in your lesson.

4. Send me an email with the activity plan and feedback on how it went.

Due: Before the next workshop (15th July)