Hi, I'm a cram school teacher in Korea and I'm trying to find ways of creating speaking activities with my textbooks. We have a random assortment of books including "Smile", "Get Real", and "Backpack" series, none of them with teachers' editions. A lot of the pages are clearly intended for homework, e.g. fill-in-the-blanks and matching exercises. I'm looking for suggestions for how to create on-the-spot speaking/listening exercises from material that was designed to be done on paper.
For example, I'll sometimes ask them to "Make a sentence using [new vocab word]". I want to have fun activities, but not just play Bingo or Hangman the whole time. Your suggestions please!
turning homework pages into speaking work
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Hi.
I'd like to help but I need some help from you too. Can you give me some examples from your textbooks, i.e. exercises you want to change into listening/speaking ones? I think I have "Smile" somewhere here. I'll try to find it. There are many ideas but I need a stimulus to start thinking! BTW, how old are your students? And... what's a cram school teacher?
Oops, I've just remembered. Is "Get Real" the one by Macmillan? I'm sure I've seen it in onestopenglish.com. There's quite a lot of helping material in this site as far as your coursebook is concerned. I'll have a look later and let you know.
Liana
I'd like to help but I need some help from you too. Can you give me some examples from your textbooks, i.e. exercises you want to change into listening/speaking ones? I think I have "Smile" somewhere here. I'll try to find it. There are many ideas but I need a stimulus to start thinking! BTW, how old are your students? And... what's a cram school teacher?
Oops, I've just remembered. Is "Get Real" the one by Macmillan? I'm sure I've seen it in onestopenglish.com. There's quite a lot of helping material in this site as far as your coursebook is concerned. I'll have a look later and let you know.
Liana