Mr. Oybek proposed the following agenda for our
today's meeting:
- Mr. Imran will update us with the preparation for the Football Tournament
- Mr. Oybek will share with us the details of GYP Speaking Competition initiated by
TVTC
Mr. Oybek will brief us about the topics discussed in his meeting with the
Country Director on Monday.
- Mr. Oybek will discuss the ways of getting students to use Classroom Language
to increase Student Talking Time and the use of English.
Dear Colleagues,
ReplyDeleteIn this meeting we discussed using classroom language as a way of getting students to use English more in lessons (e.g. during pair and group work, addressing the teacher and other students, etc.).
We brainstormed some of the classroom language and discussed to which of the following uses these phrases can be attributed to:
Teacher to student
Student to teacher
Student to student
What does this mean?
Can I go home?
Is this correct?
Which subject?
I don’t understand.
Can you repeat, please?
Thank you, teacher!
Can I go to the bathroom?
Sorry, I am late.
I’m done.
Can I, please, take this call?
I was sick.
How are you?
Have a nice day!
I’m hot.
What is the topic?
Can I turn off the AC?
Can I come in?
Can I use my dictionary?
Can you repeat that?
What is this?
What does this word mean?
What does _______ mean?
Can you explain what you mean?
What are we doing?
How many words do I use?
How many sentences do I write?
My folder is in my car.
I was absent because I had _______.
Can I borrow a pen, please?
Teacher, can you help me, please?
How do you spell this?
How do you spell _______?
Can you give an example?
The time is finished, can we go on break?
How do you say _______ in English?
What will be covered on the quiz?
What is the homework?
Can you check my work?
What is the task?
What should we do?
We also discussed the types of activities which can be done to “teach” these phrases to students.
For higher level classes it might be
getting students create a list of phrases for the categories provided by the teacher and post these phrases on the wall for their reference. Some categories can be “Addressing the teacher”, “addressing students”, “pair and group work”, “asking for a request/help/clarification/permission/etc.”
With lower level students some of the activities can include
providing students with the list of phrases they can use in class and getting them to decide to which category these phrases belong to. Students create posters with phrases for different categories and post them on the wall for their own reference.
There are also a great variety of activities available on the Internet for getting students use classroom language and Shams kindly volunteered to do some research into these activities and share with us any useful ideas.
Thank you Mr. Oybek for sharing a summary of the important discussion we had in our weekly curriculum meeting.
DeleteI think if we succeed early in making English the language of all conversations and instruction in class we would do our students a big fever. WE need to use all means necessary.
posters
walls
flash cards
post it cards
mindmaps
games
pictures
encouragement
patience