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Maite Domingo

speak up

Using Drama Techniques, Gamification and Online Resources to Enhance Speaking Integrated Skills.

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GROUP WORK IS DIFFICULT AND PROBLEMATIC

LANGUAGE LEARNING INVOLVES HEALTHY NOISE

PRONUNCIATION IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ASPECT OF SPEAKING ENGLISH

A QUIET CLASS IS A GOOD CLASS

what statement do you agree THE most?

page 36, exercise 2.1

Get up and look at what the others are doing

Stop talking to your classmates

Don't stand up!

Turn off your mobiles / Keep your mobiles in your bags.

Be quiet, please!

Help your partner solve it

You may use your mobile / tablet / laptop

no way!

sometimes

occasionally

yes, absolutely!

which of these do you say in class?

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collaborative learning

Integration focuses on making connections for students, allowing them to engage in relevant, meaningful activities that can be connected to real life.

How can students be motivated to talk? Why integrated skills?

integrated activities

The final aim of learning a language is to communicate with other speakers of the same language.

Students work with persons within the same Proximal Zone of Development

Students fulfil their need for communicating with their peers

02

task based approach

Collaborative learning groups of students work together to search for understanding, meaning, solutions, or to create an artefact or product of their learning.

How can students be motivated to talk?

collaborative learning

scaffolding

N. Mercer

When working together, we do not only interact, we "interthink"

Reflect

curriculum

Reflect

Discuss

Facilitator

Assess

Collaborative learning circle

communicationgroup goalscontinuous assessmentpeer interactionreal world scenariosdiversityhumourtechnology

The ALACT model of reflection

Do / Make

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To do in class face-to-face

DRAMA TECHNIQUES

Freeze GameThought-TrackingImproNarrationRole-PlayCross-cutting

impromptu

Stories Dice / Cards

tales

Fairy TalesActing the News

series and films

Modern FamilyStranger ThingsRiverdaleSkinsEuphoriaMean GirlsBig Bang TheoryDerry Girls

scenes

Playing roles / imitating

They rehearse pronunciation and intonation, especially SPEECH FILLERS and difficult words.THEY RECORD THE SCENE.

Set some work in groups of 4: Make them create one activity each for the rest of the class.

Pre-teach some vocabulary. Decide on what kind of Language input you would like to work on: USED TO, PAST SIMPLE /PRESENT PERFECT, INDIRECT QUESTIONS, SPEECH FILLERS.

First, watch the scene without subtitles, and then a second time with subtitles.

How to work with a scene

mean girls

HOW WILL YOU WORK PRONUNCIATION AND INTONATION?

Will you use video? a dictionary? will you pre-teach pronunciation? will you work on intonation?

DECIDE ON THE LANGUAGE POINT TO WORK ON

You can work on speech fillers, vocabulary, some grammar point...

Choose A GAME

You can either work with Freeze-Games, Narration, a video of a series/film scene, a fairy tale...

THINK OF AN activity IN GROUPS: 1. set the activity goal

Breakout Rooms

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office

GAMIFICATION

You have just got the opportunity to work for the British Government. Due to the BREXIT situation, the UK needs to strengthen the ties with English speaking country around the world. Groups of 4: the ambassador, the project manager, the research analyst, the graphic designer.

To do so, you need to find a video (in English) of 1.00-5.00 minutes long that gives an idea of the main positive aspects of this country. Once you have selected it, you need to create a TRUE / FALSE activity (5 sentences) based on this video. Your work will be assessed in terms of CREATIVITY, ACCURACY and LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY.

mission 1: make your country look nice

Spread the word about the country you represent as an EMBASSY.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office

MISSION 2: the vip

FIND A RELEVANT / IMPORTANT PERSON FROM THAT COUNTRY. You can choose among a wide variety of celebrities or professions: a writer, a singer, an artist, a musician, a painter, a politician, a scientist...Read information about her or him. THE AMBASSADOR must record a video (2' maximum length) describing the person or saying who she/he is, why she/he is important and some anecdote or relevant information.

vip person presentation

individual presentation

INTERVIEW A CELEBRITY / INFLUENCER

MAKE YOUR OWN TV SHOW

Choose a celebrity and either interview them in a TV show or record a youtube video as an influencer.To do so, you'll need to find examples on video of TV shows or influencers first.1. Make a questionnaire for the interview. Write the script.2. Choose the topic to talk about to present it to the general audience.

What apps do students enjoy most?

apps

mdomingo@eoibd.cat

The task proposed to carry out is choosing one of the apps or speaking proposals and design an integrated activity using collaborative learning. You need to design the instructions, handouts or other materials for the students as well as the assessment criteria.1. Gamification2. Film/Series Scene3. Drama techniques (freeze-scene, impro, etc.)4. Imovie: recording a scene, interview, etc.5. Using an app: tiktok, bamboozle, wordwall

TASK

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