HelloU Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
): TEFL teaching grammar/vocab
I'm trying to complete a TEFL online course and I'm a little bit stuck. I was ondering if anyone could give me some help...
This is the question -
How do you think you could best explain the words and phrases below? Consider the following techniques: bring in realia; mime it; draw a picture; show a flash card; make a sound; use a synonym; use an antonym; put the word in a sentence; define it; encourage students to use a monolingual dictionary; explain the word in the students' language (or ask them to look it up in their bilingual dictionary) . Provide brief details where appropriate, for example what synonym you would use or how you would define the word.
There is a big list of words and I hope i've got good enough answers for most of them but Im stuck on
occasionally
boring
noise
to let someone down
I was thinking for boring maybe miming it, have someone in the class read from a book while I try to exaggerate how bored I am, and then willing the rest of the class to join in, but would that really get the point across?
For noise, even though it seems really simple, I don't know whether I should mix the same meaning as sound up, maybe asking questions like what NOISE does a lion make etc.?
Occasionally - I just don't know, would it be okay to go down through a list of the words like always, usually, sometimes, occasionally, never?
And for 'to let someone down' Im drawing a blank, maybe just get them to look it up in a bilingual dictionary?
Thanks to anyone out there who could maybe help me...
This is the question -
How do you think you could best explain the words and phrases below? Consider the following techniques: bring in realia; mime it; draw a picture; show a flash card; make a sound; use a synonym; use an antonym; put the word in a sentence; define it; encourage students to use a monolingual dictionary; explain the word in the students' language (or ask them to look it up in their bilingual dictionary) . Provide brief details where appropriate, for example what synonym you would use or how you would define the word.
There is a big list of words and I hope i've got good enough answers for most of them but Im stuck on
occasionally
boring
noise
to let someone down
I was thinking for boring maybe miming it, have someone in the class read from a book while I try to exaggerate how bored I am, and then willing the rest of the class to join in, but would that really get the point across?
For noise, even though it seems really simple, I don't know whether I should mix the same meaning as sound up, maybe asking questions like what NOISE does a lion make etc.?
Occasionally - I just don't know, would it be okay to go down through a list of the words like always, usually, sometimes, occasionally, never?
And for 'to let someone down' Im drawing a blank, maybe just get them to look it up in a bilingual dictionary?
Thanks to anyone out there who could maybe help me...
Top answer
Only teach one meaning of a word at a time. Don't confuse the Ss by giving them different definitions for the words. Noise I would make noise and then elicit sound and give them noise as a synonym of sound.
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Only teach one meaning of a word at a time. Don't confuse the Ss by giving them different definitions for the words. Noise I would make noise and then elicit sound and give them noise as a synonym of sound. Don't forget to CCQ each of these words afterward.
Boring a simple mime is the best but maybe not while someone is reading as that may confuse.
Occasionally do with other
Boring a simple mime is the best but maybe not while someone is reading as that may confuse.
Occasionally do with other
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