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Williams-Grammar

GRAMMAR CLASS Using our names to learn verb be and possessive adjectives. How can I use with my students. They can do it in group of three students. One of them make the question and the rest answer if they have problem with stage panic in front of the rest of the group. Writing the question that student have to ask to others students. Besides, if a students pronounce a word or make grammar mistakes the students have the opportunity to assess themselves in a group. 2. LEARNING TO SEE AND IMPROVE OUR CLASSES. When we see our students what they like or what  it is the easier way that they get new information, but we have to teach them how to observe some activities. This requiers some times and practice and plenty of experiences. If I use a TPR strategies with a lot of gesture we have to be careful if the student catch simple meanings through movement because gesture has too much meanings, so explain clearly information input is a better option for them. Giving students...
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Williams-Dictation

Activity. Teacher start a story saying the beginning of the story, next the first students carries on with same teacher's phrase to continue with an expression and others students do it over and over again until finish all the story it is completed. Dictation: dictation is a useful activity in bottom-up listening. It can used to draw attention to the correspondence between or contracted forms and full forms. I can also be used to have learners pay attention to lexical chunks, grammatical structures or thought groups. Focusing on dictation at either sentence level or beyond allows teachers to see where having difficulties. Teacher tell words and students write down all the words that they listened to. or student can tell a phrase and the rest of groups write it. and they can make groups of three. one of them dictate and two students write.
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Listening Activities

Listening Activities providing students with information a prior to listening and provide text to listeners before listening  For us it is important to provide students with a list of vocabulary included in the passage before listening or to provide them with a transcription of the text to which they've listened. I saw the listening activities that you gave us a sheet of paper with words, questions, etc. 
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Williams-Speaking-Activities

Joe taught a speaking activities, using an eliciting of pictures of famous people. What did we know about those people? after of that, he gave us a many papers with phrases about the lives of the famous people. We had to choose what information belong to them.   It was a contest where the teacher asked questions and we had to red and answer quickly.  We can teach our Ss these activities. Teacher centered control and students centered control, it is accuracy for the teacher correct the answers without others groups realice what going on in one group that teacher is corrected, as well as students might share what they know sitting on their chairs. Students speech in the classroom is becoming a responsive type of classroom speaking performance where students and teacher can start the questions that don't extend into dialogues and it will be meaningful learning for the students.  Mathew taught us how to make speaking activities. Using pictures of activities ...
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