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#LanguageWorld2011 – Make it real!

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Make it real 

Liz Fotheringham, 

Use authentic materials to make it real! All sorts of reasons why online resources are particularly useful – one might be that textbooks are out of date as soon as they’re published!

See http://lizfotheringham.wordpress.com for slides and links

Skills –

  • odd one out
  • skimming and scanning
  • looking for similarities – cognates, near cognates
  • Venn diagrams
  • matching text and pictures
  • statistics – making links with maths skills
  • thinking skills – card sorting
  • longer texts – blanking out words – you need to look at context, grammar (what part of speech is needed)
  • reordering texts requiring looking at numbers, dates, sequencing words (trois ans plus tard)
  • fortune lines – high and low points of a career
  • colour coding texts / jigsaw reading

When using video

  • using cards to match to stills from clips eg songs  (Gregoire – Toi plus moi)
  • songs (on video) can be used as listening as well as audio
  • McDonalds advert  – made into a sound file using RealPlayer – and then slow it down in Audacity to make it more accessible

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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