- •Content
- •Edward Vyshatytskiy
- •4Th year student
- •1. Motivation
- •4Th year student
- •2. Discipline
- •A final message:
- •Ulzhan Baekenova
- •4Th year student
- •3. Assessment
- •Gulmira Batyrkhanova
- •4Th year student
- •Multimedia technologies
- •2. Now let's take a look at listening skills where I suggest using current events for listening comprehension.
- •3. As for writing and speaking skills along with the reading and listening skills I suggest we pay attention to the below mentioned information.
- •Yelizaveta Zolotukhina
- •4Th year student
- •5. Cultural awareness
- •What do you think cultural awareness is?
- •Problem solution
- •Mini-dramas
- •Investigation projects
- •Culture capsule
- •Gulim Sarkytbekoba
- •3Rd year student
- •6. Imagination
- •Techniques and methods of imagination
- •Case study
- •Zhazira Karabalayeva
- •2Nd year master course student
- •7. Self-development
- •Some more cases and tips for you!
- •References
- •Imagination
2. Now let's take a look at listening skills where I suggest using current events for listening comprehension.
You can use the same resources to teach a listening comprehension lesson. As I mentioned, most of the newspapers above offer news stories on the radio. To keep exploring, you may want to track down some radio programs in the target language for use in the classroom.
While you should take the same approach in presenting these audio materials—easing students into comprehension before asking them to formulate a response—you’ll have to consider several other factors when you use a listening comprehension resource instead of a written resource.
Firstly, don’t attempt to use an audio clip that’s longer than 1 minute. It’ll be too difficult for students to remember everything that they have listened to, and valuable class time would be used to play the recording over and over again.
Plan interesting comprehension questions. When coming up with your general comprehension question, aim for one with an answer that can be found near the middle of the recording, so students have a chance to get used to listening to it.
Stay organized. When coming up with further listening comprehension questions, make sure to write them in the order in which the answers will be found. This way students will not become flustered if they miss one—they can simply move on to the next question.
Bear in mind that, unlike recordings made specifically for listening comprehension, authentic listening comprehension materials are spoken very quickly and intended for native speakers. Listening comprehension activities with authentic materials are generally appropriate for intermediate or advanced students.
3. As for writing and speaking skills along with the reading and listening skills I suggest we pay attention to the below mentioned information.
In general, as you probably yourself know there are so many teaching materials available online but it can be sometimes challenging to pick out the most appropriate ones. This is why I advise you to check out the following websites that I used during my teaching internship:
http://www.eslgold.com/ - this one is full of great resources for teaching and learning English for free. You can find materials in all of the four sections: listening, reading, writing and speaking. What I like about it the most is the variety of sources included. Moreover, you do not need to sign up in order to access the source materials.
https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/ - this is a super helpful free source of teaching materials divided into age sections such as “teaching kids”, “teaching teens”, “teaching adults”, and it also contains articles, teaching tools and resources compiled by native English language teachers along with the information about UK culture. Therefore, since the website is created by British Council it is perfect for aspiring teachers! You can sign up for a free account in order to save materials that you “like” and get notifications about any updates.
Summarising the above, I know that when it comes to the actual multimedia appliance in class not everyone is lucky to get a classroom with technological advancements such as a smart board (that is usually used in the modern classroom) or even a computer. So that, even if you do not get a smart whiteboard I still strongly recommend utilising multimedia and World Wide Web technologies with the help of laptops, smart phones, tape recorders. Make sure you use authentic materials, make sure your classes are full of multimedia resources and fun activities.
Finally, I want to wish you a fruitful teaching experience! Do your best!
