1. Comenius in service training
Using new technologies for teaching English
Ipswich 17-29 June 2012

2. Suffolk New College
 Welcome and introduction
 Lecture and Discussion with Jamie Daniels: The English
Education System , Recent Developments & Current Issues
The Place of New Technologies in teaching Modern Foreign
Languages & other subjects (Go 4 Schools: a system to
capture, analyse and share classroom data in real time)
 Walking tour of Ipswich

3. Suffolk New College
Workshop
Using New Technology for Teaching English
with
Graham Workman

4. 3 factors to learn a language
 E (exposure to the language)
 U (use in an authentic way)
 M (motivation to learn it)

5. Working with Mr Workman
 Ice breaker activity: find someone
who…
 Building up vocabulary: the
importance of COLLOCATIONS
 Computer collocation quiz – ICT pair
work quiz – New words quiz – mind
maps
 How to mark with your computer

6. Popular films for language use:
•Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (illnesses and symptom
•The Day After Tomorrow (environment)

7. TASK BASED LEARNING
Model
Planning/Input/Rehearsal
Task

8. Steps: pre-task/task/feedback
 The nature of the task is demonstrated
 Relevant language for the task is
covered (scaffolding language)
 The level of difficulty of the task is
checked
 Learners work in a self –reliant way to
complete the task, e.g. to interpret a
train timetable or a map
 Learners are given feedback
(marking)

9. Some examples…
 Letters of the alphabet dictation
 Describe a childhood memory
 Prepare and talk about a personal
calendar
 Create a magazine cover for your
class
 Create your booklet or your own
newspaper (www.crayon.net)

10. Games
 Tell us about
Free speaking activity, you can introduce rules, e.g. “
you have to say at least 3 sentences” or “you have
to speak for 30 sec.”…
Scaffolding language:
Roll the dice
Counters
It’s your turn
It’s a draw
If you land on this
space…

11. Cutting Edge
Games Pre-Intermediate
Resource Bank
Get rich quick
Students take turns and pick up
“money cards” with a question,
they get the money if they give
the correct answer, at the end
of the game the winner is the
richest .
Taboo: pair/group guessing game
You have to guess the word and the person who gives the clues
can’t say the 4 words under it.
Reward Upper Interm. Resource
Pack
Pass the Bomb: suitable for any language item

12. Making
board games
Create your own with
the help of these
websites
listed in Graham’s wiki

13. Timelines
 Drawing timelines can help
understand the meaning of a verb
tense

14. Concept Questions
Questions about the meaning of a piece
of language:
e.g. “He used to play football” =
 He played it in the past
 He doesn’t play it now
 He played it many times in the past
Concept questions:
 Did he play it in the past? YES
 Does he play it now? NO
 How often did he play it? MANY TIMES

15. Concept maps
In concept maps you have language on
the lines to link the concepts and to
explain the connections
e.g.
You can create your own using cmaptools

16. Podcasts
Podcasts are a useful tool for language
teaching, you can download them or
create your own, have a look at
www.podomatic.com

17. more activities…..
 Start of journey/End of journey: a flexible activity
for any language item
 Reading Circles Role Sheets: example with the
short story “Marionettes, Inc.”. Each student has their own
role: Discussion Leader, Summarizer, Connector, Word
Master etc. which will help for Reading Circle discussions in
the classroom.
 Telepathic revision (with words associations):
students play in groups, one of them can’t see the word, the
others have to say their associations and make their partner
guess, the first group that guesses shouts “GOT IT”
 Dictogloss
 “Listenership”: list of the most common words used to
show we are listening and responding to what someone is
saying

18. Visit to Kesgrave High School

19. Visit to Chantry High School

20. Suffolk New College
Workshop
Teaching English as a Foreign Language
with Chris Crofts

21. More activities...
….on collocations:
 Battleship
 Dominoes
 Songs (When I’m 64 – The Beatles)

22. references
Susan Kay, 1996, Reward Upper Intermediate Resource
Pack, published by Heinemann English language
Teaching
Mc Carthy, O’Dell, English Collocations in Use, CUP
http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com
Dictionary of Computing, 3°edition, Peter Collin Publishing
Ltd
Bookworms Club Reading Circles Teacher’s
handbook, OUP
Cutting Edge coursebook series (pre-intermediate
/intermediate), Pearson
Graham Workman wiki
Gem Publishing:
Popular films for language use 3 – 2009
CLIL Secondary Science materials – 2011 – 2012
Secondary English Lesson Materials – 2012
Concept Questions and Timelines - 2008