#pairwork

ACTIVITY 2 LET'S HAVE A CONVERSATION🗣️

Be in pairs 👥

Then, interview your partner about his or her favorite weather based on the picture 🖼️ above. Remember choose only one (1) weather to talk 🗣️ about.

Fill up the dialogue box 💬 according to turns of interviewer and interviewee in the module booklet on page 7, 8 and 9.

Remember you are given 7 minutes⌛ to complete this activity.

Choose wisely 🤔

If you have any questions or difficulties, do ask the teachers👩‍🏫. Teachers will definitely help you.

Hi guys! I’m back with another post and I’m so proud of this podcast because I put a lot of effort into it. I had so much fun with my pair while we were doing it. The whole lyric writing process was both funny and challenging. At some points, it was really hard to create the right lyrics and it took a lot of time. Thank god, at the end of it, we came up with great work! I’m gonna use podcasts with my students in the future. Because they can learn easily when they have fun. It’s a plausible way of learning. So, I don’t want to make you wonder and there’s no more secret. Here’s my podcast! Click it! The transcribed version of my podcast:

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I never trust my stepmom But she pretends to love me. So my name is Hansel And I have got a sister Gretel But I love my father and he loves us  He is a woodman Now my mom wants to leave us

I can carry stones in my bag Yellowish hair on my head If my mom leaves us in the dark forest I will fight with the wolves Here I am coming... Now, I will find our home Then my dad will be happy Now, I will find our home Then my dad will be happy And now we are together Because I’m so smart, smart, smart, smart And I’m a blondie, blondie I don’t want to leave home But my mom wants So now we’re in the forest And I have some bread crumbles My mom didn’t see the crumbles, I’m happy This is how we find our way We have to find before it’s too late I could find the way with my sis She says “Where are the crumbles you spilled?” I say the birds ate the crumbles I spilled And if we are lost then we are in danger We’re really in danger But I’m so brave We’re really in danger But I’m so brave The witch wants to eat us Don’t worry Gretel, Gretel, Gretel, Gretel We will run away, away! We will run away! We have to beat the witch otherwise we’ll die She has got an oven, a kitchen, and reasons We have to beat the witch or we will die Gretel hold my hand, hold my hand Hold my hand, hold my hand We pushed her into the oven And it felt so good We pushed her into the oven And it felt so good Now we’re back our home And we’re so happy, happy, happy We feel so happy, happy!

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So, while writing these lyrics, Taylor Swift’s “I Did Something Bad” inspired me a lot. I used the instrumental version of the song while I was working on my podcast. A huge thanks to Taylor Swift because I wouldn’t do something like that without her. :) Here are the lyrics of the song! Click it!

Here’s a picture of me and my pair Arzu. I’m so grateful for her hard work. Also, you should definitely check her podcast! You’re gonna have so much fun! Go and visit her blog. Click it!

Hi people, today, I will be posting about my very first podcasting experience; 

While creating our podcast; Firstly, we made up a story and recorded our voices reading that story with an audio recorder.

Then we found and used an editing program to add sound effects to our recording.

The whole process wasn’t that hard, the only thing that we had difficulty in doing was finding the right editing program (bcs. most of them are paid or have very limited options).

We would use podcasting in the future. Solely because it allows students to listen to their own voices and makes them aware of their speech errors.

Click here to listen to the podcast.

Classroom Management

by Sophia McMillan (Shane Training Centre, Japan)

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Planning and executing effective lessons is of course an extremely important part of teaching. The teacher should always ask themselves the following questions:

* What is the objective of the whole lesson? * What is the aim of this activity? * How are learners working together? * Who is speaking to whom? * Is…

Homework Correction

by Sophia McMillan (Shane Training Centre, Japan)

These are just a few ideas of how to make whole-class correction of homework more of an active challenge.

• Give learners a chance to compare their answers in pairs. They can then correct / change / complete their own answers before a whole class check. • Take names out of a hat to nominate who will answer (make…

DIGITAL STORYTELLING 

Hi there! 

   I have been working on this story for a while with my friend Onur Öbekcan. Under the title of Digital Storytelling, we have finally accomplished our goal by making this roughly 3 minutes long digital story. 

   Our task was to either write or find a short story of our own and synchronize matching pictures and add a background music to light up the mood of the story. At first, we could not come up with bright ideas for the script so we looked for a short story to be inspired. We made some changes in the characters and the story to make it the way we wanted it to be. The process of preparing the script was not so hard for us as we worked cooperatively. The hard part for us was to find the matching pictures for our story. But we overcame that difficulty with using several applications.. 

   As for the software, we used Microsoft Movie Maker. We learnt how to use it last year so it was an advantage for us for this project. 

   Collaborative work helped us a lot because there were places in the script where a single person could not voice by his own. Also, the process of editing the video got easier due to our collaborative work.