Module teaching and integrating language skills lesson 1

Activity 4 Tone of voice
Objective: to raise students’ awareness of tone of voice
Time: 15 minutes
Materials:
Procedure:

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  Explain that in controlling the class, often the way how teachers say something is more important that what they say.
  
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  Ask students to imagine that they are teaching a class of adolescents, around 15 to 18 years old.
  
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  Ask students to practice saying different warnings in three different ways, as if:
  

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   at the beginning of an activity; a general announcement to the whole class (pleasantly)
   
2. 
   students take longer settling down than the teacher has expected; (this time more firmly but still pleasantly)
   
3. 
   Some students continue to be disruptive; (very firm, addressing those particular Ss)