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Most important administrational links: Email-me here: click! / Room: (online, for the time being...)
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Room: ZOOM: Link will be sent to participants via email / see OneNote Class Book
(On Thursdays, 11 March and 25 March please do NOT use this link, as it will be busy otherwise. Thank you. Instead go to TEAMS and take part in the conference opened by me there.)
Weblink to TEAMS: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/team/19%3a3f8147919a0f42cc8f880f0da4970b48%40thread.tacv2/conversations?groupId=e3ea34ad-a44b-4834-b87c-ac832d3e83cf&tenantId=c7e438db-e462-4c22-a90a-c358b16980b3
NO sessions: 8 April / 22 April / 13 May / DOUBLE session: 20 May: 14:00 - 17:30: / Last session: 3 June 21
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1 / 25 Feb 2021
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Focus: Grammar'n'Vocabulary: Tweaking and Lexical Approach
- Ways of tweaking exercises (done in session): 1 Tweaking exercises.pptx ---> your own first attempt at a tweaked exercise
Bloom's Taxonomy:
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- Lexical Approach:
(5 minute youtube video with Leo Selivan: https://youtu.be/K6CQ4Zd5Zl8 )
https://prezi.com/lbwm7nbfcr6c/grammar-vocabulary-bridging-the-gap/
Collocations: lexical approach
Collocations: collocations.pdf
Example: disaster vocabulary: Disaster Vocabulary_Collocations.pdf / Disaster Vocabulary.pdf
https://corpus.byu.edu/coca/ (Corpus of American English)
https://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/ (Corpus of British English)
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Tasks: Study documents and links provided in next session's slot:
Taking into account what you have learnt from session 1 and the documents studied below create a "tweaked / smart" exercise for one area of vocab and one area of grammar of your choice. Explain what features you used to tweak and what elements in your exercises are particularly designed to help learners REMEMBER what you focus on in your exercises.
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2 / 4 March (Working Session!)
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Focus: Working Session – Grammar'n'Vocabulary
7 Infallible Tricks to Help ESL Students Remember New Vocabulary
Article about what you can do so students don't forget (click!)
101strategieshandout_ascdwebinar_feb92017.pdf / make it stick 1 o 1.pdf
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Tasks: (see end of session 1)
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3 / 11 March
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Focus: Your Exercises / More Tools
Post your exercises (word, powerpoint, ...) here, or use OneNote (write your name here and say: "see OneNote")
Session 2 _Tweaked Exercises_Iris Baechi.docx
2_TweakingExercises_JonasKöppel.pdf (also on oneNote)
Tweaking Exercises_RomyBinswanger.docx
tweaked_exercises_gabriel_mueller.pdf
Tweaked Exercise_Isenring_Tamara.pdf
FD III_Maya Sela_20210304.pdf
Session 2 - tweaked exercise - Aida - updated.docx
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More Tools:
https://prezi.com/r-yffflfsfdd/synonyms-talk/
Google Ngram Viewer: https://books.google.com/ngrams/ (Thank you Isa for the tip!)
(comma separated terms to be compared)
NEW! Use Google Ngram Viewer to compare GB and US use of English:
e.g. compare "at the weekend" vs. "on the weekend"
(see syntax to get this type of comparison: Syntax for google ngram viewer.pdf )
TWO articles instead of one:
Vocabulary Lists A and B.docx Out to rebrand Africa.docx The Female Factor.docx
make+and+do.pdf
Floating Diagrams: for advanced classes
say-speak-talk-tell.pdf
vocabulary sets see here: http://www.saberingles.com.ar/ways/index.html
From (de)suggestopedia: https://youtu.be/yX4JFEUgqlg ENGLISH WOMEN'S NAMES.pdf ENGLISH MEN'S NAMES.pdf
Tracy in love.pdf Trip to the Moon.pdf
British Council ideas for vocabulary games: http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/vocabulary-games
More Ideas:
http://www.creativeteachingsite.com/humorgrammar.htm
http://www.spwickstrom.com/grammar/
Englis Central: worksheets-language-functions2.pdf
( ̴ practising speech acts)
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4 / 18 March
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Focus: (Timelines and) Concept Questions
- Discussing concept of CQ
Animated timelines:
Tasks 1: Produce at least two different handouts for lessons based on TL-CQ principles
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-->Think of what changes when all the students have a tablet or laptop as their main tool in class, in general, and comment on what you think of "flipped classroom" in particular.
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5 / 25 March
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Focus: BYOD
Differences in preparation and teaching of lessons in BYOD classes.
- Delivering BYOD lessons with coursebook
- Preparing BYOD lessons with OneNote
/ literature lessons
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Oral Project 2018 K2b KSM.pdf / Evaluation - Mark Oral Projects 250.pdf
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Tasks: Think of what digital tools (besides OneNote, Teams, ZOOM) you have used in language learning and explain what benefits they can provide vor the language classroom / watch this video: https://youtu.be/21OzwP7BxuQ / share what pages or tools you know that lend themselves to teaching online or in class.
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6 / 1 April
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NO Session on 8 April !
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Focus: Digital Tools for English Teaching
- Remote Teaching Practice with Teams and Zoom
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Tasks: in the working session on April 15:
- Try out as many tools / webpages as you have time for and come in next time with either comments on or questions about at least two of them.
- create your own pbworks wiki, as the platform where you will present your project:
Go to the first link to create it, then look at the second link to get familiar with the handling of pbworks
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R7 / 15 April (Working Session)
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NO Session on 22 April !
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Focus: Digital Tools for English Teaching
Discussing your experiences with various tools and pbworks in particular.
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Tasks: for session 8, look study the contents of the links below about the future of (language) teaching. Form your own opinion about what you think language teaching will look like in 5 to 10 years.
How should English be taught in the future? (David Crystal): https://lama.hypotheses.org/71
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8 / 29 April
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Focus: Classroom 4.0 / your suggestions of further aspects that we should talk about:
Russel Stannard's latest blog about this topic: https://www.teachers-corner.co.uk/now-and-the-future-things-to-think-about-when-working-with-technology-by-russell-stannard/
- Discussing your reception of the inputs above.
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- Your suggestions:
Iris and Romy:
-acquire a level of expertise with different online tools (stay up-to-date) --> exchange ideas with colleagues, atttend workshops, follow blogs/websites etc.
-tech-savvy and adapt to new challenges/formats (stay flexible) --> not just staying up-to-date with regards to content but forms and formats of teaching
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if time:
testing out "automatic" text correction programmes
Test one of the automatic text / grammar inspectors below as to their usefulness in writing classes:
Comment achieve)
Your comment:
Your comment:
Your comment:
https://www.grammarcheck.net/editor/
Your comment:
Your comment:
Your comment:
Sample writing texts - Jumbled 3.docx
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More ideas:
https://www.macwelt.de/a/die-10-besten-ar-apps-fuer-das-iphone,3437946
https://www.thinglink.com/ (produce AR media)
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Tasks: keep working on your project
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9 / 6 May
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NO Session on 13 May !
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Innumerable vocab tests.docx
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- Working on Project
Project guidelines:
Build a wiki (done!)/ use google docs / use OneNote / as an online platform for a blended learning sequence / build a flipped class sequence about grammar, vocabulary or literary work.
Or produce an instructional video about how to use a particular online tool that you like in a profitable way for learning. (like this: Conditionals zero first recording.mp4) / Create a "menu" with choices of activities to acquire a certain language feature or literary terms or to discuss literature (cf. "Conditional Cafeteria" below).
examples instructional videos by Russel Stannard (flipped classes / using "snagit"):
https://youtu.be/8hLOUlbAgs0 / https://youtu.be/5OBx49XTTtg / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuEjRtaiqw0
examples grammar projects:
http://kfrclasses.pbworks.com/w/page/40223572/Grammar%20Project3d / try a "Prezzi" : https://prezi.com/-ovw8u3kbk5y/special-structures-alba-and-victor/ / http://willihuessy.pbworks.com/w/page/103181623/Conditionals%20in%20Songs / http://tenses.pbworks.com/w/page/103182529/FrontPage /
OneNote project "Conditional Cafeteria2: (go to OneNote, Content Library or:) Webansicht
examples of litterary projects:
http://andresch.pbworks.com/w/page/103182241/The%20Lottery / http://ilion.pbworks.com/w/page/103181110/Dead%20Poets%20Society%20Front / http://nklay.pbworks.com/w/page/103180885/Midsummer%20Nights%20Dream /
just to see how things have evolved since then...)
- sign up for your free educational pbworks.com wiki from here: https://plans.pbworks.com/signup/edubasic20
- Tutorials about pbworks can be found here: http://edumanual.pbworks.com/w/page/57903873/Pages
- try out features: formatting text, inserting pictures, movies, links / creating new pages and linking them up --> Navigation through site.
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Focus: Working Session
Complete your project
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12 / 27 May
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Focus: Presentation of Projects
Please post links to your projects here:
Romy: OneNote FDE III (leads to online OneNote, you can also just open your OneNote App --->Content Library --->Romy)
Iris: http://irisbae.pbworks.com/w/page/143984859/FrontPage
Maya & Gabriel: Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea
Aida & Tamara: lont [licensed for non-commercial use only] / FD3 Project - Linking words (pbworks.com)
Jonas: Jonas - The Giver / or just open our oneNote folder --> Collaboration Space --> Jonas - The Giver
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13 / 3 June 21
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(Presentation of Projects, if necessary) / Q & A Session
Location for last session: Hiltl Sihlpost / Europaallee, 2:15 pm / I am looking forward to seeing you there.
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End of Semester / Have a great Summer Break!
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