Topic 4: In Practice: Activities, Teaching Material, Tips & Ideas
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In Practice: Activities, Teaching Material, Tips & Ideas
- Suggest a number of Greek shows on the radio, podcasts online, Greek songs, etc.
- Ask learners to listen to them regularly (let’s say for five minutes three times a week)
- Keep track of learning listening activities to encourage them to keep up the practice
- Try to convince learners that it is ok if they don’t understand
- Urge learners to make regular short term (a couple of minutes) practice
- Make use of various reading materials and be creative through reading through in different formats, i.e. books, magazines, newspapers, recipes etc.
- Make it interactive and alive. Encourage learners to read the one preferred and selected material and then discuss it in relation to other books, movies, or TV shows.
- Be playful with words. Ask learners to write down unknown words or phrases and bring them to class on an index.
- Face reading as communication. Prepare several lessons where learners read a number of different written materials: advertisements, instructions, recipes, a newspaper article, part of a handbook etc.
- Choose your topics according to your learners’ interests. Even if you choose an engaging writing activity, it should be connected with a topic, or a context, that will motivate learners to write. Just make sure that writing is a regular activity for them.
- Whether it is creative writing, business writing, or guided writing, teach them by example first, and then let them have free reign in the way they express themselves in writing.
- Incorporating communicative learning into writing lesson will foster learners’ creativity and confidence.
- Brainstorming is one of the most important aspects within writing and learners can build on their writing through discussion.
