Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Working with pictures...


There are so many things you could do with pictures in general.
What I have been doing with my students lately, is to show them part of a picture (like this one) and have them guess what is happening!
For example - this picture I have posted over here shows a person who is shouting.
Have the students describe the persons feelings.
Is she angry?
Is she afraid?
Who is she?
What's the situation?

You could create a mind map on the board with all the vocabulary the students collect.
In the end show them the original picture (which you can find over here) and have them compare their ideas!

Working with songs - part 3



When taking exams, students are asked to look for specific information, especially in the reading and listening parts.
This is something really difficult, and the technique has to be taught to them.
So one great idea, especially for the selective listening comprehension, is to use songs with really fast pace, songs that are hard to understand without having the lyrics in front of you.

What you have to do is:
Take some words of the song and mix them with some similar words in meaning or with homophones (like "peace" -"piece")

In our case:
  • population
  • immigration
  • games
  • tames
  • hurry
  • marry
  • furries
  • fight
  • bright
  • light
  • plight
  • crush
  • blood
  • world
  • word

Have the students find out which words are mentioned while listening to the song.

This particular song is also great as introduction to lessons having to do with the destruction of the environment. You could start a coversation about environmental problems and have students write an essay (or look for more information on the internet possible solutions, enviromental orgamizations etc)

Monday, March 12, 2012

The 8 Project team!

Untitled by Theodora Pap
Untitled, a photo by Theodora Pap on Flickr.

First presentation IS over... Glad to have such a big audience!! Can't wait for Athens!!!

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