204. Talk about your favorite topic

One pinponting activity you can implement with your class-group is Speaking for somewhat a long time.

It is not the same for our kids to say a full sentence than giving a speech, with its coherence and cohesion.

I learned this activity when teaching in Jaen, south of Spain. Mrs. M J A taught me how to implement this project. I'm going to try to recall all the steps, briefly.

1. You elicit possible topics or subject-matters from your pupils, and you write them on the BB. Every student will make a presentation about whatever they wish. However, by following this procedure here explained, you can teach them how to outfit a presentation. You all select one topic, by putting aside other topics, by votes from the students, discarding the rest of the topics.

2. In two columns you write what they can say about the selected topic, one column for the things they can express in L2 and the second one for the things they know how to say but in L1.

3. Next, you with your students choose three points, either in L2 or in L1. Those three points will be the introduction, development or main body, and conclusion.

4. A brainstorm about further development of each part, orally. Volunteers contribute with spoken sentences or at least some tries to utter sentences about each part of the topic.

You will have presented and practiced the linkers, like conjunctions, to join the sentences, with a meaningful thread.

Tell them that..., even better, ask them what the most important thing of their presentation is: that their classmates can understand what said by each speaker. Accept other suggestions: any thing is significant, any thing from your students.

Set a span of time they will have got to speak out, the lenght of their speeches.


I might have forgotten some step, but basically that is the stuff.





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