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[tzechuk]

Just wondering what kind of style you use when you are teaching your university classes.

By style I mean the following:

1. presentation - you make a powerpoint of the work you want to do for that class

2. book only - you go in with the teacher's book and the student's book and you just teach it from them.

3. somewhere in between.

Are there alternatives??

[Hotpants]

We have pretty minimal classroom facilities - a chalkboard at best. Sometimes students want to give presentations in Ppt. so we have to schedule booking a room with such facilities. Otherwise, a Ppt. is not flexible enough for a straightforward English lesson imo. Paper and brain cells lead the way...

[SuperHero]

I use the book and heavily supplement with my own materials including games that I have made and had professionally printed. I don't use powerpoint because I think it pretty much sucks.

Interestingly I am teaching a presentations skills class this semester so will have to bite the bullet and use it, but only a little. I am having my students do presentations without powerpoint for the first 2/3 of the semester so they can concentrate on what really matters - content, body language, eye contact and organization.

[Homer]

Books, movies (short clips), some powerpoint (limited use), interactive activities when possible....mix and match really.

[PRagic]

I write because I want my students to write. When presented with power point, too many students would just like the frames e-mailed out or posted. Not going to happen, at least not in an ESL classroom. I want to see notebooks getting filled.

Handouts, supplementary reading, games, activities, video...whatever to fill in the blanks around a boring text that we don't choose.

[The Chewbacca Defense]

I used to teach a travel/culture class and with over 100 students, i had to use powerpoint (but never gave copies of the presentations to the students). With my smaller classes; its pretty material i put together myself, loosely based on the topic of the crappy textbook.

[drkalbi]

I have 3 hour classes with my students, so I use Interchange for the first hour, handouts for the second and roll play for the third.