Module teaching and integrating language skills lesson 1

Activity 3 Student talk
Objective: to raise participants’ awareness of the need for students to talk in class and to equip them with some typical examples of student talk
Time: 15 min
►Procedure:

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  Tell participants that since classroom language is the kind of language necessary to communicate and survive in the classroom it is not only the teacher who should use it. Students should also be prepared to use English when they communicate with the teacher and each other.
  
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  ☺(3 min)Ask participants the following question:
  

~How can you introduce common classroom expressions which students should use?

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  Invite several random responses coming back to handout 1. Elicit or tell participants that these expressions can be introduced at the very beginning of the course/school year with the help of students themselves.
  
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  ☺☺☺ (5 min) Tell Ss that now they are pupils. Put your ‘pupils’ into groups of five and ask them to write down some expressions they can think of which they might need to use in the classroom. They may write in English or in L1.
  
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  ☺(7 min) When the ‘pupils’ have done this, ask a member of each group to read out their list phrase by phrase. Ask other groups to help correct/translate and then write up the English translation on the board. After writing all the phrases elicited from your students on the board, tell them that with real students you might ask them to copy these into their notebooks and to start a Classroom Language List. They should have enough space to add to this list as more classroom language is introduced throughout the course.