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E-mail attachments ?
Don’t bin ‘em !
IX Jornades Llengües Estrangeres a TarragonaNovembre 2011
Yolanda Scott-Tennent
• Handout
Why use them ?• Economising teacher prep. time > ready prepared to use [ computer,
beamer, etc.]
• If sent round, bound to be eye-catching / funny, or have m essage…
• Generally, quite short, frequently self-contained ite m/story.
• Provide opportunities forspecific practice (e.g. grammar, reading and listening c omp) less controlled practice ( e.g. oral and written practic e) presentation/revision,etc. new topics /structures in engaging way.
• Usually “authentic” docs ( not adapted or abridged)
• Can be “spinned out” or be a sandwich, hors d’oeuvre, dessert ortreat.
Background resources
Photograph Collections
• Beautiful photos
• Travelling and colours
• Action photographs
• Choose one of the photos andthen use it as background information for something else
> to give students a new life( like Mafia witnesses)
> to set the scene for anevent/story
> action photographs allow theprevious, but also add thepossibility of describing what’shappening (with a hugevariety!)
Topics
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Art
The Amazing Art of Dali
Double vision
Julia Beaver : Street Art
Vincent Van Gogh
• Description(adjectives, modifiers, articles, prepositions, position)
• Colours
• PreferencesMy favourite..The one which/thatI prefer… to …
Clothes and physical description
• Ariston Aqualis
• Nespresso
• Clothes items, description
• Wear/ suit/ match• Have on / put on/
take off ( simple phrasal verbs)
• Physical description, adjectives, adverbial clauses
Cultural events
• Carnival Jingle Bells?Specific vocabularyfor each of them
Traditions, routines, what happens, whatpeople do
Comparing differentways of celebrating
Food
• Carl Warner Foodscapes
• Art in the kitchen
• Danish Bacon
• Eating and eatinghabits
• Meal times
• Cooking and recipes
Houses and rooms
• Architecture • Description ofhouses, rooms, spaces, gardens..
School and daily life
• Exams
• Murphy’s Law
• Routine
• What I likemost/least…The thingthat …
• Something I’m alwaysunlucky with/ I alwayshave problems withAnecdotes
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Technology
• The Latest • First, decide whetherthe fact thatSpanish/Catalanappears on screen isa problem for you
• Technology/gadgets/
Work
• Waterslide
• Obama and Brown
• Jobs/professions
• Would like tobe/have…
• Comparing, clausesof consequence(so/such…that)
Grammar structures
• Paradox of our Times
• How to drive
• Children See
• The Black Hole
• The Future ofShopping
• Comparative forms
• Imperatives
• Modals[should/shouldn’t/must,etc.]
• Narratingevents;stories
• Future verb forms
• Budweiser ad
• Creative Publicity
• Another budweiser ad
• Painted Hands
• Present perfecttense
• The mostoriginal….I’ve ever…
• Why don’t we ?Suggestions
• AnimalsColoursHabits and routines
• The Evolution ofDance
• Cartoons of the 90’s
• Alarm clock
• Office work
• Reminiscing; pasttenses; “when” time clauses
• Continuous vs simple forms to talk aboutwhat is/washappening, “going to”for predictions
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• Don’t shorten yourname
• London 2012
• Magic 1
• Magic 2
• No Words (ads)
• Modals in the past : should/shouldn’t, must
• Tarragona 2017
Future tenses
• Passive voice/how things are done
• Infinite possibilities
Jokes and humour
• Past tenses
• So clause for resultor consequence
• Structures used forexplaining/givingreasons
• Present, real or typeoneconditionalform
• Position of“enough”
• Funny signs • Giving reasons >
what makes it funny
reason for/because
Listening ComprehensionPractice
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• Social Media ( Hot Potatoes M/C but can also createshort answer, matching, putting in order, gap fill [cloze]
Reading ComprehensionPractice
• I love this doctor
• How to annoy your teacher
What about these ?
• Wear a band
• My dream...
• Queen - promo
• I hope I have set your mind bubbling….
THANK YOU FOR COMING.