COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE

In this method communication is trough interaction between students and the teacher. Teachers set up a situation and the students have to encourage in their real life.

 

ADVANTAGES:

There are a lot of advantages but the most important are:

•  we can use authentic material to teach something.
• Here there is no memorization.
• There is few translation.
• Accuracy as well as fluency.
• Here the teacher and the students work with real situations.
• Teacher checks students´pronunciation.
• With this method the teacher always related to culture.

Before the activity the teacher should  teach when they have to use transitions: first,second,then,finally.

Activity:

Speaking activity: Create a story according to the pictures.

Time: 10-15 m.

1. First, the teacher divide the class into two groups and give some picture to each group.
2. Then she asks each group start talking in order to create the story.
3. After that, teacher asks each group to tell their stories to the class.
4. Finally, teacher asks the sutdents how they feel creating the stories.

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SUGGESTOPEDIA

 This method was developed by the psychoterapist Georgi Lozanov.

The term "suggestopedia"derived from suggestion and pedagogy.

This method has a its goal eliminating negative feeling to use the language.

Advantage:

The teacher uses  music to get students sit back and relax.

The teacher can use puzzles, pictures, music,.

Activity:

The students are sitting in a circle and listening a relaxing song.

The teacher reads and acting with  mimics and movements the following story.

time: 10 minutes

For example:

  

The Cock and the Pearl 

A cock was once strutting up and down the farmyard among the hens when suddenly he espied something shinning amid the straw.

"Ho! ho!" quoth he, "that's for me," and soon rooted it out from beneath the straw. What did it turn out to be but a Pearl that by some chance had been lost in the yard?

"You may be a treasure," quoth Master Cock, "to men that prize you, but for me I would rather have a single barley-corn than a peck of pearls."

Precious things are for those that can prize them.

Then the students listen the story only

.

After the teacher ask one students make the mimics while everybody read the story aloud.

Finally, teacher asks the sudents some question about the story.

For example:

Do you like the story?

If you were an animal, what would you like to be?

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TOTAL PHYSICAL RESPONSE

 Also know as TPR it is a method associate with motor activity. Here the students have to answer with their bobies as their brains.

teacher as director and the students as imitators because they do all the things and movements teacher doing.

Advantage:

It is fun and easy. Students will enjoy getting up out of their chairs and moving around.It is used with beggining levels.

There is no stress.

Students should pay attention on listening and comprehension.

Activity: listenig and speaking activity.

Parts of a body

First the students see a video about parts of a body.

After that, the teacher is goigb to play a game with the students.

She says: ok children now I am going to pronunce different parts of the body and also touch them.You have to do the same thing and also pronounce the word in the same way.

For example:

Teacher: THIS IS  MY HEAD, MY SMALL HEAD

Students: THIS IS MY HEAD, MY SMALL HEAD

Teacher: THIS IS MY MOUTH, MY BIG MOUTH.

Students: THIS IS MY MOUTH, MY BIG MOUTH.

Teacher: THESE MY ARMS, MY THIN ARMS

Students: THESE MY ARMS, MY THIN ARMS

and so on.

THE NATURAL APPROACH IN THE CLASSROOM

Natural approach is designed to develop basic communication skills.

Advantages:

Students can acquire language from easy to difficult, from simple to complex, and from concrete to abstract.

Activity:10-12minutes

Speaking activity

1. In this activity the teacher shows to the class some pictures of animals and says their names.
2. then the students have to repeat the name of the animals twice and the teacher checks the pronunciation.
3. For example: 

For example:T: sHOWING THE PICTURE: DOGSs: dog