1105-James-PictureDifferencestheOffice

1、Picture Differences,Lessons for EFL Teachers: Integrating Skills and Systems Chapter 1,1,A pre-computer office,Four groups brainstorm what they might find in such an office,2,Elicitation,How can we elicit? Do students know something about the world? We go from the known to the unknown. Targeted elic

2、itation fills the board with the elements necessary for the forthcoming activity. Word pronunciation,3,Result of eliciting,4,Using T,5,Making vocabulary active,Sample Qs for further elicitation What do we do with plants/filing cabinet/plants? e.g. store, file, save, water, look after. What do plants

3、/secretaries do? e.g. work, break down, look nice, improve the atmosphere, save time Where do you find things in offices? e.g. on the desk, in the corner, on the windowsill.,6,Superordinates/hypernyms,In LT, topic headings. Useful vocabulary? For example, vehicles, musical instruments, furniture, bi

4、rds.,7,Distribute the pictures,All the As together All the Bs together Sub-groups if necessary Label the pictures Work together Ask teacher Use dictionary,8,Functional Language,Questions How many Xs are there in your picture? Where is the X? Is the X above/below/on etc the Y? What colour is the Y?,A

5、nswers Yep, in mine too. Same here. Oh! But in my picture, Where exactly? No, Ive got . mine is . Checking Really? Are you sure? Can you say that again? Hang on. Let me check my picture again.,9,Functional Language,this is necessary to perform the task useful models for language acquisition supraseg

6、mental features,10,Students perform the task,Tango pairs instructions for furniture instructions for secrecy ICQs what language are you going to use? are you looking for things that are the same or different? how many differences should you find? can you look at your partners picture?,11,Teacher mon

7、itors,Reasons for monitoring include:,12,Feedback,Having monitored: I heard someone saying something about Who was that? Would you like to tell everyone? Collect ideas on the board 2 lists of Pic A and B,13,Sentence frames,In Picture A, there are X but/whereas in Picture B there is/are Y. Whereas in

8、 PA there are X, there are none in PB. Although there arent any Xs in PA, there are 3 in PB. There are no Xs in PA while there are X in PB. The X is missing from PA. The X in PA is somewhere but in PB it is somewhere else.,14,Dictation of letter opening,Dear Mr Hardy, We would like to thank you once

9、 again for the replacement picture you delivered last week. Im sure you remember how guilty we felt about mounting it above the fireplace. But as we look now, we find that it is not quite the same the original. For example, in the original, there were X but in this one there are Y. (OR There used to

10、 be X and now theres Y).,15,Checking the dictation,Students compare in groups Display full text on the board,16,Mutual dictation,On the back of Picture A We would like to _ you once again for the replacement _ you delivered last week. Im _ you remember how distressed we _ when we _ that some vandals

11、 had _ horribly defaced it. etc.,On the back of Picture B We would like to thank you once _ for the replacement picture you _ last week. Im sure you remember _ distressed we were when we found that _ vandals had so horribly defaced _. etc.,17,Instead of dictating it, the teacher can provide the A B

12、pairs again with the text, gapped in different places,Sentence adverbials,And surprisingly, One other thing . And we have the feeling that We are sure that in And lastly, the thing which surprises us most is .,18,Writing to whom?,Who are the authors, the “we”? an old retired couple, a pair of yuppie

13、s, art collectors, rich people. What is the purpose of this letter? What outcome do they expect? How are they are going to express their expected outcomes? What is the tone of the letter? furious, resigned, polite but firm, embarrassed to be making a fuss.,19,Writing a letter,Individually? In pairs or groups? Advantages and disadvantages of co-authoring? Drafting,20,Reading a letter,Who is going to read the letters? What happ