Creative Teaching in the Secondary and Adult Classroom
The Lake School
Weekly
Timetable 2016
Time
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Monday
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Tuesday
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Wednesday
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Thursday
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Friday
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09.15
– 10.30
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Welcome
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Session
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Session
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Session
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Session
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10.30
– 10.50
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Break
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Break
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Break
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Break
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Break
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10.50
– 12.00
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Session
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Session
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Session
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Session
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Session
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12.00
– 12.15
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Break
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Break
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Break
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Break
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Break
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12.15
– 13.00
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Session
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Session
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Session
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Session
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Session
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13.00
– 14.00
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Lunch
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Lunch
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Lunch
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Lunch
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Lunch
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14.00
– 15.00
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Session
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Cultural
Activity
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Session
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Session
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Free
Afternoon
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15.00
– 15.15
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Break
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Break
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Break
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15.15
– 16.00
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Session
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Session
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Session
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Course Objectives
To
improve and extend the teaching techniques and English language ability of
teachers at Secondary school level and teachers of young adults and adults.
Course Content
Participants
are asked to complete a pre-course questionnaire. Tutors plan the course to
meet the needs of the course participants. Course content typically includes:
Introductions, ice-breakers, warmers and fillers
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Being a teacher; being a learner
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Opening doors; considering teaching roles and
responsibilities, tasks and topics, strategies and style
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Developing personal language skills and communicative
competence
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Teaching
grammar and making it fun
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Understanding
CLIL concepts; creating classroom activities
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Songs
and music in the English language classroom
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Vocabulary, collocation
and word partnerships
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Teaching
phrasal verbs
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New
words, idioms and the importance of language in context
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Learning styles, multiple intelligences
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Teaching students with learning difficulties
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Classroom challenges; improving motivation,
engagement and results
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Writing, feedback and error correction
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Working with texts; exploring and creating,
engaging tasks
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The
British education system and visit to a secondary school or college
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Practical pronunciation; phonemes, stress and
connected speech
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Revision
and recycling activities
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Blended
learning, ICT and digital media
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Using film and images as a creative stimulus
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Course Methodology
In each session the tutor facilitates
an awareness raising activity, followed by a discussion in which participants
discuss and compare their classroom teaching experiences. The tutor presents practical
and creative teaching techniques for Secondary learners based on a range of
teaching methodologies and recent research into English language acquisition.
Participants try out these
techniques, discuss their appropriacy (with any necessary adaptation) to their
own teaching situations. In particular, the tutor presents strategies for
encouraging communication, motivating students, managing large and/or
mixed ability classes effectively, planning and follow-up activities.
In language improvement sessions,
the tutor demonstrates, through loop input, how teachers can improve and update
their students’ grammar, lexis and pronunciation, as they improve their own.
In all
sessions the tutor indicates recently published subject-specific materials for
further reading and/or classroom activities, also online and offline resources
for further research and/or cultural background.
Outcomes
Teachers
will have a wide range of practical teaching techniques to enable them to make
their classes more effective.
In particular, teachers will be able to:
§ motivate
and encourage their students to learn more effectively
§ manage
mixed ability and/or large classes
§ use
different teaching strategies to accommodate different learning styles
§ adapt
coursebook materials to personalize students’ language learning
§ make their
lessons more communicative and create their own teaching resources
§ integrate
authentic resources and new technologies into their teaching.
and specifically:
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use a range of introductory techniques with new
classes and language concepts
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use a range of language recycling and error
correction techniques
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use a variety of creative techniques with images,
texts, dialogues, videos
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create activities to make content more meaningful and
memorable
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integrate reading, writing, listening and speaking
skills, including pronunciation
In addition, teachers will have:
- a portfolio of teaching materials including
o aims of each
classroom activity or teaching technique
o bibliography
for sessions, including relevant website addresses
o photocopiable
worksheets and cloud-based sources for downloads
o promotional
materials/resources from a range of publishers (where available)
- increased confidence in their own linguistic
ability
- a network of new teaching contacts.
BLENDED LEARNING WEBSITE LINKS
Writing
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Moviemaker: Website for creating animated cartoons. Good for older
children (10+). Lots of film vocabulary. You can also email your movie to
people.
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goanimate.com
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Moviemaker: Creating your own animated cartoons. There are many
characters and settings to choose from and you can upload your films to
YouTube or download them to your desktop. Not as easy to use as Dvolver but
more engaging for students in the long term Suitable for older children.
Voiceover rather than text.
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Cartoon strip maker: This is suitable for older children (12+).
There is a teacher's guide on the site with lots of good ideas. Also there is
a bank of free printables which are great for wall displays.
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Cartoon strip maker: Probably the easiest site to use, but unlike
Bitstrips and Makebeliefs Comix, you have to have an account. This is not a
bad thing, especially if you want your cartoons saved to use in the future.
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A website
where you can produce a newspaper article.
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Make your own word clouds. Good for vocabulary games, predicting a
story/text/song. Also nice for student handouts.
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Make your own word clouds with
style! Make word clouds in different shapes. Very nice for classroom
displays.
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Another
word cloud in different shapes.
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Good resource for primary school children who need help writing.
There is a version of hangman called hang mouse and this website can also
produce spelling sheets for people who have problems with handwriting
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- and that's not just children! You can input your own word lists
to create online games.
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Listening Speaking/ Recording/
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Great site for learning English with video, vocabulary and
comprehension questions. Has a section on colloquial phrases and
pronunciation.
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Aimed at teenagers. Stories, videos, games, quizzes. Topics
include entertainment, science, sport, culture.
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Resource for primary and secondary teachers. Good for CLIL. Short
video clips with vocabulary to preteach and follow up ideas.
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Biographies of notable people both in text and video. Useful for
student presentations and projects.
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animoto.com
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Video slideshow maker with music. Nice alternative to Windows
Movie Maker.
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mailvu.com
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This site
can be used for students to record and send a video message.
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Website where you can record,
send and upload audio. This is probably the best recording site but you need
to sign in.
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This is a way students can
create their own talking photos.
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Lesson
plans
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Online resources for the news of the day. There is a 26-page PDF
handout and a good 2-page mini lesson. Boys love the missing word game!
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This site has some lesson plans for teachers divided into primary
and secondary levels. There are some nice literature lesson plans.
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ed.ted.com
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Ted-Ed lessons worth Sharing. Lessons built around videos on a
wide variety of topics.
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The weekly and monthly Guardian news lessons are excellent and
come with answer sheets. Three levels Elementary, Intermediate and Advanced.
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A great karaoke site which
also offers lesson plans for teachers. You do have to sign up but this only
takes a minute
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Vocabulary
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quizlet.com
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A great
site to make your own flashcards and quizzes.
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There is
a lot on this website but I like the puzzle maker at the bottom.
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You can create and print your own word searches, crosswords,
cryptograms etc.
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Pronunciation
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Phonetics
games online
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Exams
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Practice Tests for IELS and Cambridge exams. There is also TOEIC,
TOEFL, BEC and BULATS Business Exam stuff on this site. There is a free
listening and grammar/vocabulary test for students who want to know their
level and which exam to take. Your results can be emailed to you. There is
also an academic word list.
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Vocabulary, grammar, skills development and practice tests for the
Cambridge English exams.
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Provides lots of exam tips and model essays for the writing part
of the exam. Forum for students to exchange and share exam ideas.
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Exam practise and help for IELTS speaking and writing and for PET
exam. Suitable for older teens and adults. It has a timer for different parts
of the test and about 500 essays with comments to look at.
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Blogs
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edublogs.org
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A blog
which you don't need a gmail account for.
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Create your own blog. You will
need to create a gmail account if you don't already have one.
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Quiz
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Create a fun learning game in minutes, made from a series of
multiple choice questions. Add videos, images and diagrams to your questions
and students use their mobile phones to join in the screen activities.
Very motivating and very good fun.
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Interactive Grammar & Vocabulary Games for Classrooms. This
site provides templates for Jeopardy, Reveal a picture etc and printable
board games. There are also examples of games which can be used as they are.
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This isn't a blog but it's a good chance
to connect with other schools around the world and find penpals in a secure
setting - all members and photos are checked. Also good for older
primary/younger
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secondary
at end of term/fun lesson. Could do quiz as a class.
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Karaoke
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Free online karaoke. You don't
have to sign in but you get a larger selection of songs if you do.
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This is a great way to learn
languages, including English, by singing songs. Lots of gap fill exercises
with three levels for each song
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A great karaoke site which
also offers lesson plans for teachers. You do have to sign up but this only
takes a minute.
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Lots of nursery rhymes for
young learners, modern songs for teens/adults. Grammar and vocabulary
exercises and short videos.
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Training
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In his videos, Russell Stannard talks you through how to use some
online resources. You can also sign up to his monthly newsletter for free.
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Adrian Underhill teaches a group of foreign teachers how to teach
pronunciation and use the phonetic chart in an engaging and inspiring one
hour session
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nikpeachey.blogspot.com
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Learning to use technology in
the English classroom. A densely informative blog which keeps you up to date
with what’s new
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