MOBILITY 3. Creative Teaching in the Secondary and Adult Language Classrooom. The Lake School of English, Oxford, the UK. Montse Bultó. Day 8

REVISION. The trainer prepared a set of handouts to review the new vocabulary we have learnt in this course.

• include visual stimulus in the revision activities
• prepare all sorts of activities to meet the students' different needs
• provide context

SHARING IDEAS. SHOW AND TELL. The teachers in the class present to the other teachers an activity, resource or idea that they use in class and works. These are some of the ideas:

• the chain reaction: each student gets an instruction with a conditional sentence, e.g. STUDENT 1: if a student claps his/her hands, stand on your chair. STUDENT 2: If a student stands on a chair, shout your name out loud....
• Speak out: students role play a 1st time kind of conversation, e.g. on a train. Each one of them has a sentence that you wouldn't normally use in this kind of conversation, e.g. I think my husband is having an affair. They have to move their conversation towards that topic without the others noticing.
• Draw a circle, a triangle, three little circles, a rectangle and a /. Then turn these into a picture. Write three adjectives next to each picture and finally and psychoanalyse: a circle = how you see yourself, a triangle = how you see your family, three little circles = how you see your friends, a rectangle = how you see the opposite sex and a / = how you see your future.