Personalizing Language Learning

This book provides a range of ready-to-use materials and practical guidance for teachers who are looking for ways to make their language teaching less detached, and more centred on the individual learner.

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Introduction

1

(6)

Starting the course

7

(22)

Multi-introductions Introducing people in English

7

(2)

Personal descriptions Describing yourself and others

9

(2)

Name round Recalling or stating personal ambition

11

(3)

Personal introductions Self-description

14

(2)

Ask me a question Looking at the familiar in a new way

16

(1)

What I like Revealing your individuality

17

(1)

How I spend my time Comparing real-world time constraints with ideal-world freedom

18

(2)

Personalized greetings Initiating and maintaining conversations

20

(4)

I'm this type of person Describing what you're like

24

(3)

How I feel about the language I'm learning Giving reasons for your attitude to the target language

27

(2)

Warming up

29

(19)

The personality you carry with you Finding out what you have in common

29

(3)

The parts of my life Focusing on what is important in one's life

32

(3)

Evaluating objects Close observation

35

(4)

Intensive pronunciation work Practice in problematic sounds

39

(1)

Careful listening Describing sound

40

(3)

My world Talking about where you live

43

(2)

The best and the worst Responding with feeling to news

45

(1)

Making small talk Social chit-chat

46

(2)

Acting, reacting, interacting

48

(18)

Reactions Ascertaining how people feel

48

(4)

Exact replication Retelling, in a foreign language, what was told to you in that language

52

(1)

Be my eyes Communicating pictures in speech

53

(2)

Creating a drama Emotive exchanges

55

(2)

Function review Looking at language as functions

57

(3)

Telling lies Discerning the truth

60

(1)

Language challenge Specific language revision

61

(2)

Congratulations Congratulating each other

63

(3)

Self-awareness and self-assertion

66

(17)

Stop the stranger talking Strategies for avoiding conversation

66

(2)

Survival Persuasion techniques

68

(2)

Empathizing and persuading Defusing anger with calm

70

(3)

Making people laugh Trying to change someone's mood with words

73

(1)

I'm like that too Building up rapport in class

74

(1)

What can be asked? Gauging appropriacy

75

(2)

Deflecting questions How to not answer questions

77

(2)

Being sympathetic Supporting in positive and negative situations

79

(2)

Being assertive Establishing an assertive manner

81

(2)

Values and values awareness

83

(18)

Valued possessions Value awareness

83

(1)

Mock auction Describing things positively

84

(3)

Role and language State and attitude

87

(2)

Desirable qualities Talking about the best and worst in human nature

89

(2)

What's important in a teacher? Describing important qualities in teachers

91

(1)

Qualities for life Deciding what qualities help you get the best out of life

92

(3)

Treasured possessions The emotional value of material things

95

(3)

Deserving causes Persuasion

98

(3)

Self-knowledge and knowledge of others

101

(26)

My past, my self Knowledge of past self

101

(2)

Changes Discussing significant life experiences

103

(2)

Life maps Judging the listener's interest

105

(8)

Personal coat of arms Representing yourself in a badge

113

(4)

True short stories Talking about true-life incidents

117

(1)

Colours Accurate description of colours

118

(3)

Things I can't do without Visual representation of things important to individuals

121

(3)

How I used to be Evaluating past behaviour

124

(3)

Images and scenes - real and ideal

127

(16)

The never-ending story Story telling

127

(1)

The buck stops here Story telling

128

(1)

Unusual life experiences Speaking confidently in public

129

(1)

Pictures Describing landscapes

130

(4)

Writing from pictures Collaborative writing task

134

(2)

Months in my life Associations with times of the year

136

(2)

Numbers in my life Associations with numbers

138

(1)

Feelings Acting out different moods and feelings

139

(2)

Your image of yourself Describing yourself in terms of something else

141

(1)

A painting of yourself Describing a picture

142

(1)

Closing the course

143

(12)

Me and the course Evaluating learning

143

(1)

Unconditional positive regard Complimenting

144

(1)

Parting gifts Awareness of personality

145

(2)

Saying thank you Acknowledging everyone's contribution to the class

147

(1)

The mood game Portraying scenes in a particular manner

148

(2)

The course in pictures Using pictures as an aid to giving opinions

150

(2)

Somebody else thinks this Saying what you think without saying it yourself

152

(1)

Attitudes to the language you are learning Expressing how you feel about the target language

153

(2)

Bibliography

155

(1)

Index

156

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