Module teaching and integrating language skills lesson 1

Top tips for trainee teachers: use your body language to control the classroom

Theatrical facial expressions, moving around the classroom, carefully-planned eye contact; you need to control your body language if you want to control your students.
Lіterature

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   Penny Ur. A Course in Language Teaching- Practice and Theory, Cambridge University Press, 1992.
   
2. 
   Harmer, J. (2004). Just (Reading and Writing. Marshal Cavendish.
   
3. 
   Kerra Maddern “How to develop teacher presence and command attention in class”
   

Suggested web sites:
www.teachingenglish.org.uk
www.online-literature.com
www.literature.org/
www.pearsonlongman.com/ae/
www.developreading.com


MODULE 2 TEACHER’S PRESENCE IN THE CLASSROOM LESSON LESSON 27
Theme: Teacher’s voice

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  Lead-in (5 min)
  

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  To brainstorm on the non verbal communication/body language items using handouts Handout 1A and handout 1 B
  
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  Ask students the following questions:
  

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  Do you know the difference between verbal and non –verbal language characteristics?
  
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  What items you can include to the non-verbal communication?(use handouts 1a and b)
  

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  Body language plays a key role, especially at the subconscious level, in communication and an awareness of it and how it can vary from culture to culture, can be particularly important in helping students to develop their ability to understand in a real environment. Body language is made up of a whole range of features many of which we combine together without ever thinking about what it is we are doing or what we are expressing.