IMPERSONAL SENTENCES: Ways of expressing impersonality

Theoretical part:


 Practical part:

THINK-PAIR-SHARE

On a given topic, such as different kinds of families, students should first read or listen to a lecture on the material. They should then share and compare their ideas on the topic with a partner before addressing the larger class. A variation of this is pair-share-repeat, in which students switch partners and share the ideas of the old with a new partner.

In engaging in this exercise, students get to speak to a variety of audiences and hear different perspectives on an issue while practicing speaking and listening skills.

Group Formation Idea

Students should be able to identify the name of an animal or bird written on the card and imitate a typical movement of or sound made by that animal or bird so that others can identify the animal and form groups. The teacher chooses animals or birds the children are already familiar with and those whose actions or sounds can be easily imitated. For example the teacher can use elephant, fish, peacock, rabbit, lion & kangaroo.

 

 

IMPROVISION

This is a fun way to make your students talk like they would talk in a daily life - improvising dialogues. They work in groups with different topics chosen by you or their class mates. It stimulates to use the vocabulary they have, practice it and make conversations they would in daily life. It is also great to have fun activities in class.

 

In this speaking exercise you ask students to come to the front and do a little drama/ dialogue.

TELEPHONE: Warm-up activity

Everyone knows grammar charts are dull. But you can liven them up with the old game of telephone. To introduce a new grammatical structure, whisper a sample sentence in a student’s ear. Have the student repeat what s/he heard to the next student, and then s/he repeats what s/he heard to the next student, and so on. The last student writes what s/he heard on the board, and then you write the correct sentence below it. Have fun comparing the telephone version to the correct one, and then introduce the key grammatical structures.

 

 

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Remember...!

EDUCATION is not the learning of facts, but the TRAINING OF THE MIND TO THINK