Productive

skills
2nd April 2020
Think back to your teaching practice:

1. Can you think of a speaking activity that didn’t go well? How would you do it differently next time?

2. Can you think of one that was successful, what made it work?
Listen to this piece of music and imagine a person who loves it.

As you listen make notes about:

• Their appearance

• Their likes and dislikes

• Their home life

• Their dreams

Give your person a name

 Tell your room about your person.

Who do you think would be friends?

That was a productive speaking task.

1. What vocabulary would a pre- intermediate group need to complete this activity?

2. What functional language might be useful?

3. Task based learning often involves similar tasks being repeated at the start and end of a
lesson. What task could you do to lead into this lesson?

4. What other stages would you include?

5. How might you include some correction into this lesson?

What do you hope that learners will gain from this lesson?

Type your answers into the chat box.

Writing is scary!
In our writing session we discussed the following:
Lack of motivation and ideas

Fear of judgement

Lack of time

With your TP group think back to a writing lesson:

• do you think your students experienced any of these issues?
• what strategies did you do?
Imagine another teacher voices the problems below. What suggestions would you make to solve the
problems? Discuss.
Teacher A
“My students get depressed when they get their marked work back.”
Teacher B
“I think a lot of the mistakes my students make when writing are just slips. They could probably correct them
themselves.”
Teacher C
“I correct the grammar and vocabulary mistakes but I feel there’s more to evaluating writing than that.”
Independent Study

Harmer, J. 2008. How to teach English. Pearson Longman Chapter 8

Scrivener, J. (2005) Learning teaching: A guidebook for English language
teachers. 2nd edn. Oxford: Macmillan Education Chapter 9

log post outlining the process approach

http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/672

Tips
http://writingcenter.unc.edu/faculty-resources/tips-on-teaching-writing/in-class
-writing-exercises/