Attached is my Week 4 assignment. It was quite difficult to think of creating puzzle materials for my context, being 1-2-1 online teaching - everyone else's activities seem really exciting and colourful, but I find with my context it's often more engaging for learners in 1-2-1 online lessons if you can create the content during the lesson - so I will use the interactive whiteboard a lot to draw etc.
Anyway, one game I play quite frequently is Twenty Questions, which is a very popular British travel game, so I have created a worksheet to explain how to use this as a game to practise question forms and workplace vocabulary. I use it with B1 learners, and I only use it once with each learner. The word I think of is always 'stapler'. I find this works really well because it's an object that many people use every day, but that (in my experience) they don't know the English word for. It's really interesting to hear them try to describe it to me, and how to use it, and really extends their vocabulary.
Hi Ellie,
ReplyDeleteThanks for your Week 4 materials. Don’t be so hard on yourself. You shuldn’t compare your materials with other participants unfavourably – really. Some materials are perfect for colourful and exciting stuff. Others, like these you have created, aren’t because they are for the teacher.
Thanks for the bakcground info too. One to one materials área challenge. This Twenty Questions idea is really good and can be adapted for all kinds of contexts – well done.
I’ll comment on the instructions for the teacher.
Clear instructions. Well done. It isn’t easy to write game instructions!
It might be a good idea to change all the script – what the teacher actually says to the students – to a different colour. That way it will be easier to spot (and use).
Nothing else to add because this is great as it is.
Katherine Bilsborough Thanks for your feedback!
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