MOBILITY 3. Creative Teaching in the Secondary and Adult Language Classrooom. The Lake School of English, Oxford, the UK. Montse Bultó. Day 4

WORKING WITH TEXTS

• Have students work with an unknown text (totally different language) and give scaffolding:

1 start with visual support (images, title, form and shape…)

2 help with unknown key words

3 give images related to the content of the text

4 show a video related to the text

• Give students a text and they do a running reading comprehension exercise: students in groups, one student runs to the teacher who dictates a question, s/he runs back to the group and repeats the question, the group find the answer. If the answer is correct, next round…
• Have students write a text (for and against, a story…) and split it up so that other students have to put it in order with the help of the connectors and linking words in the text

CRITICAL THINKING

• Give students the same piece of news from two sources, two different points of view and compare the language
  

  The Guardian, The New York Times: left-wing

  The Daily Mail, The Times: right-wing
   
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMKScopMnKI The Guardian The Whole Picture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDGrfhJH1P4 The Guardian Critical Thinking The 3 little pigs +

https://teflgeek.net/ lesson plan for The 3 little pigs

http://newspaper.jaguarpaw.co.uk/ NEWSPAPER GENERATOR

• John Lewis Xmas adverts (cheesy, very cheesy)

USING IMAGES

• Reveal a picture, Outside the postcard, family photos, dictadraw, post-it reveal, dancing dialogues