| Materials and Planning - Unit 6 |
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HOW CAN I PROVIDE IN THE LESSON TO HELP CHILD
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Introduction
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本单元探讨不同的教学活动、专项技能练习、课堂教学和活动。这些活动会增强学生的注意力，并给学生更多练习的机会。
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Introduction
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What are stir and settle activities?
What other ways can I provide variety in the class? How can I use transition
activities? |
| 1. How can I vary stir and settle activities? |
· Stir activities make children excited. Speaking
activities and competitions often stir children.
· Settle activities make children calm. Listening or colouring activities
often settle children.
· Keep a list of activities which stir and settle children, and try to have
a balance of them in a lesson. |
| 2. How can I vary the focus on skills? |
· Balancing the focus on skills
will give children chances to meet language in different contexts, and so
extra chances to learn.
· Balancing the skills focus will help children with different learning
styles.
· Look at your short-term goals for children and try to make sure you have
a balance of listening, speaking, reading and writing activities.
· Children can't always practise all four skills in one lesson. So think
about providing a balance of skills over a week or two weeks.
· Remember that listening and speaking, and reading and writing can often
be practised together. This may help you to plan. |
| 3. How can I vary groupings? |
· Sometimes children will need
to sit and listen to you, to copy from the blackboard, or to repeat words
as a whole class.
· But most children will find it hard to concentrate if they work for a
whole lesson in this way.
· So think about using pair and group work activities to make lessons interesting
and to help children to concentrate.
· As an example, children can answer comprehension questions about a story
in groups, or can write answers in pairs. |
| 4. How can I use transition activities? |
· Transition activities are
a way of giving children time to come out of one activity and get ready
to start another.
· For example, if children have been doing a speaking activity in groups,
and you now want to start a quieter listening activity, you might use a
transition activity to make this clear to children.
· One transition activity would be simply to get children's attention and
to ask a question or two about the current activity which lead into the
next activity. Another possibility is to tell children the title of a listening
activity which follows the activity they are currently doing, and ask them
to guess words they will hear. |
| 一、Summary |
| Varying activities, skills focus
and groupings can help learners to concentrate and learn. Providing transitions
to show a change of focus can also help children to get ready for the next
activity. |
| 二、Glossary |
· variety (n) 变化，多样性
· vary (v) 变化
· stir activity (n) 走动活动
· settle activity (n) 静止活动
· excited (adj) 兴奋的
· competition (n) 竞争
· calm (adj) 平静的
· balance (n) 平衡
· focus (n and v) 焦点
· context (n) 上下文
· short-term goal (n) 短期目标
· concentrate (v) 集中
· transition activity (n) 传递活动
· guess (v and n) 猜测 |
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