C Learner differences
(pages 14-20)
1 Make an A & D chart (see page 186) for teaching children, adolescents and adults.
2 Who do you think is being described in these examples? Put C = children, A = adolescents,
Ad = adults or ? = don’t know in the boxes.
a A small group of students come to see you and say that they’re finding learning
English much more difficult than they had hoped. They want to stop the classes,
b After a lesson, a group of students come to see you and say, ‘We don’t like the way
you’re teaching. We want more grammar.’
c One of the students’ favourite activities is the chanting of rhythmic sentences to
develop good pronunciation,
d Students get really excited when you offer to let them sing a song,
e Students play tricks such as hiding under desks and giving the wrong names when
you are taking the register,
f When you arrive late for class, some of the students are quietly getting on with their
work.
g When you ask a student to come out to the front of the class to take part in a
demonstration, he is extremely reluctant to do so because he is so nervous,
h You get students in groups to play a board game adapted from a general knowledge
quiz. They are reluctant to play the game,
i
You get students to write poems on the subject of friendship and you are surprised
and moved by their work.
3 What level are these activities appropriate for? Put B = beginner, I = intermediate or
A = advanced in the boxes. Some may be appropriate for more than one level.
a □ Students write and assemble the front page of an imaginary newspaper with stories
you have given them and others they make up.
b □ Students listen to a dialogue between a railway official and a tourist asking for
information.
c □ Students listen to an interview with an actor talking about how she got started,
d □ Students practise introducing themselves with language such as ‘Pleased to meet
you’, ‘Hello, my name’s Karen’,
e
□ Students practise repeating/saying words with the /ae/ sound, e.g. ‘cab’, ‘sand’, ‘bat’,
‘and’, ‘at’, etc.
f
□ Students put together a radio commercial for a new kind of shoe,
g □ Students report back on an unsimplified work of English-language fiction,
h □ Students role-play choosing a dress in a clothes store,
i
□ Students watch a video of a documentary about global warming.
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Jeremy Harmer
How to Teach English
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