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your national
curriculum |
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Get hold
of a copy of your national curriculum
and note down the following: |
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grammar
content for the academic year |
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vocab
content or semantic fields ;)
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the
skills and competences your goverment is
looking for |
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2 |
design your
programme |
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Study
your timetable and allot one session for
the flipped classroom; one session for
project-based learning and one session
for drama. Rotate the approaches and
take into account the time of day. For
example, drama might be best placed in
an afternoon. |
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3 |
learning goals
and outcomes |
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Flipped
classroom |
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These
are the grammar sessions. Students watch
grammar tutorials on Youtube and then do
online exercises. Ideally students work in
threes and the teacher is the
guide-on-the-side. At autoenglish.org
you have 100s of online grammar
exercises and also a youtube channel of
grammar tutorials. I also have flipped
classroom courses for middle school
already set up. |
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Go here
http://www.autoenglish.org/flippedforsecondary.htm |
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Project-based learning |
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This
approach enables students to acquire the
following skills: |
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social
skills - how to work within a team |
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public
speaking skills |
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slide design and how to
use presentation software |
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awareness of personal strengths and
weaknesses |
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how to
become an independent learner
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how to
search the web for information
effectively |
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professional level presentation skills
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critical
thinking |
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creativity |
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Go here for
introduction:
http://www.autoenglish.org/projectbasedlearning.htm |
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Go here for ready-to-use
projects:
http://www.autoenglish.org/pbl/projectsformiddleschool.htm |
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Drama |
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This
approach enables students to acquire the
communicative skills: |
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improvisation - real life is not
rehearsed! (this avoids the problem of
students memorizing text which they recite rather
than speak.) |
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building
their own personal language repertoire. |
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peer-learning - students pick up useful
language from each other. |
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experimentation - students try using
language they have heard on Netflix or
in songs and so build up a more
authentic-sounding speech. |
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confidence using language. Improvisation
can be very daunting so picking up these
skillls makes students better able to
deal with real-life situations. |
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discovering that learning can be fun! |
