Language activities for teenagers
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Language activities for teenagers
（Cambridge handbooks for language teachers / general editor, Michael Swan）
Cambridge University Press, 2004
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-220) and index
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Description
Here are 99 enjoyable activities, for 11-16 year olds, to coax, cajole and tempt them into learning English. The authors, drawing on their own vast experience, share ideas on maintaining discipline, using ice-breakers, warmers, fillers, developing vocabulary and using literature.
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1: Maintaining discipline in the classroom. Part one: Basics of maintaining order: Introduction
- Key practices
- Part two: Routines for maintaining order: 1.1 Jobs for friendship pairs
- 1.2 Spatial anchoring
- 1.3 Noise control: The disappearing word
- 1.4 Confiscating things
- 1.5 Behaviour charts
- Part three: Peer mediation: structured discussion of conflictual behaviour: Introduction
- 1.6 Writing scenarios
- 1.7 Discussing ground rules
- 1.8 Asking questions about people's stories and thinking of solutions
- 1.9 Dry run, with role reversal and solutions brainstorm
- Chapter 2: Short auxiliary activities: ice-breakers, warm ups, breaks and closers
- Introduction
- 2.1 Clap and say
- 2.2 Passing on
- 2.3 Flash the picture
- 2.4 Alphabetical vocabulary review
- 2.5 Surprise questions
- 2.6 From letters to grammar
- 2.7 Comparing it and me
- 2.8 Kill the text (then bring it back to life)
- 2.9 Question, question improvisation dialogues
- 2.10 Alphabet improvisation dialogues
- Chapter 3: Mainly Speaking
- Introduction
- Part One: Oral fluency in pairs and groups: instructing, conversing, interviewing
- 3.1 LEGO constructions
- 3.2 Describe and draw the opposite
- 3.3 The same but different
- 3.4 Newspaper pictures 3.5 My map of the world
- 3.6 Be someone else
- 3.7 Picture interviews 3.8 Tell me about it
- 3.9 Stories from pictures
- 3.10 Graffiti
- Part two: Holding forth, being in the spotlight: 3.11 Letter on the board
- 3.12 30 second stimulus talks
- 3.13 Pitching a wonderful new product
- 3.14 Questions to the head
- 3.15 The third degree about a text
- 3.16 Simulation and presentations by groups
- 3.17 Performing stories from sounds
- Chapter 4: Mainly Listening
- Introduction: Part one: Using your own voice
- 4.1 Ticking differences
- 4.2 General knowledge quizzes 4.3 Picture dictation-a basic version
- Part two: Using recordings: 4.4 Which was it?
- 4.5 Who said what, when and why? -using an excerpt from a film
- 4.6 Where do these words go?
- 4.7 Interactive song dictation Chapter 5: Mainly reading
- Introduction
- Part one: Reading tasks for authentic English
- 5.1 Mind-map the text
- 5.2 Listening for the differences
- 5.3 Put it in order
- 5.4 Take a good song and make it better
- 5.5 Quiz with a difference
- 5.6 Horoscopes
- Part two: Reading stories, then reading out or telling them: 5.7 Reading a story aloud
- 5.8 What comes next?
- 5.9 Imagine that!
- Chapter 6: Mainly Writing
- Introduction
- 6.1 What's the number?
- 6.2 ABC sentences
- 6.3 Writing from a medley
- 6.4 Connecting the Top Fifty
- 6.5 Fake biographies
- 6.6 What a story!
- 6.7 Put yourself in the picture
- 6.8 Write in the shape
- 6.9 Draw the text
- 6.10 Diary questions
- Chapter 7: Vocabulary-learning and reviewing
- Introduction: Part one: Activities completable in one or two lessons
- 7.1 Mime the text
- 7.2 That can I see in English?
- 7.3 How many?
- 7.4 Find the words in the picture
- 7.5 Lists from pictures, pictures from lists 7.6 My schoolbag--and yours?
- 7.7 The best
- 7.8 What can you hear and smell in the picture?
- Activities that can roll from lesson to lesson: 7.9 Acting out prepositions 7.10 Memory poster circles 7.11 Physical action vocabulary and metaphor Chapter 8: Literature
- Introduction: Writing poetic texts: learning about basic features of poetic writing
- 8.1 Writing haikus
- 8.2 Writing limericks
- 8.3 Word association poems
- First encounters with a poem-preparing for reception, hearing/reading
- 8.4 From words to predictions
- 8.5 Find the poem
- 8.6 Gradual reveal
- Learning a poem really well-reading out loud and/or memorising
- 8.7 Starting and ending with dashes
- 8.8 Picture poem
- 8.9 Technicolour reading-recital in voice groups
- Exploring the meanings of literary texts: reading, thinking, discussing
- 8.10 Poem picture metaphor
- 8.11 From sketch to discussion of a short story
- 8.12 Literature interpretation mandala
- 8.13 Summarap
- 8.14 Card quiz game on a novel
- 8.15 Two short texts on a similar topic
- Chapter 9: Building the skills of discussion and debate
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