Lecture Theme: Methods of activity

Cinquaine

• Cinquaine This word taken from the French language and means five lines. It helps the learners to find out the key words from the text, learn their meaning, function and use then make short conclusion on the text. Cinquaine first worked out by American poet Adelaide Crapsey. Most methodologists believe that cinquaine is effective on working with difficult information. It helps to single out the most important parts of the information.

Cinquaine

• Cinquaine is used in the following way:
• A word is given. It can be any word belonging to noun class of words: a house.
• An adjective is used to this word: a nice house.
• An adjective may be redoubled: a big nice house.
• A verb or adverb is added and a sentence is formed: we have a big nice house.
• Learners express their attitude to the information: we like our house.

It’s useful to keep (or follow) the following advises in using their method.

• First learners should use it on the well-known theme
• At the beginning learners work in pairs, small groups. Only after such preliminary activity they may work alone on making sinquaine
• Those who could make best cinquaines are encouraged. This method is considered to be one of the innovative methods and helps the learners to deep understand the theme.

5. Jiglo

• It also belongs to innovative methods and can be used in a group work. Learners are given the task to restore the text out of cut into pieces sentences of the text. Learners work in groups and cooperate in restoring the text.

6. Role playing.

• Role playing is also one of the activity used in teaching innovative methods. They are made to improve the efficiency of teaching. Role playing involves the learners into active work by positively influencing on their inner activity. This creates favorable conditions for cooperative work. Such atmosphere creates their motivation, personal potentials of inner activity and helps to form practical skills and habits. During the role playing such skills as creativity, getting out of the difficult situations, resourcefulness, self managing are formed and improved. Role playing has not only educational aim, but also has social aims because some life situation are modeled here for teaching.