Inspired English Teaching A Practical Guide for Teachers

, by West, Keith

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ISBN: 9781441141347 | 1441141340
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Copyright: 8/19/2010

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Through clever body language and vocal inflection, this book encourages new and current teachers of English to produce inspiring lessons that will engage their pupils.

Acknowledgements	p. VIII
Introduction	p. IX
Use your body	p. 1
Body language	p. 1
The face	p. 2
Basic emotions	p. 2
Posture	p. 3
Eye movement	p. 3
Hands	p. 4
The voice	p. 5
Taking charge of your classroom	p. 12
A question of space	p. 12
Displays	p. 13
Seating arrangements	p. 15
Procedures - make your classroom your own	p. 17
Teaching styles	p. 18
Planning teaching and learning in English	p. 20
Getting to grips with school issues	p. 23
Literacy as a whole-school issue	p. 23
Assessment in English	p. 24
Reports that count	p. 27
Use of plenary sessions	p. 28
Use of technology - the whiteboard as a learning tool	p. 28
Rewards and sanctions	p. 29
Making it all seem like fun	p. 33
Sentences	p. 33
Paragraphs	p. 37
Recognizing an interesting story start	p. 39
A spelling game	p. 44
Stimulus	p. 49
Boy-friendly poems	p. 46
Making a drama out of verbs, nouns and adjectives	p. 59
Non-fiction materials that are boy friendly	p. 61
Non-fiction material	p. 65
Draw before you write	p. 68
A new planet - Silvershine	p. 68
Persuasion	p. 70
Writing reviews	p. 73
Making the assessment focus works	p. 74
Tackling the assessment focus	p. 74
Mostly drama	p. 90
Mysteries	p. 90
Drama as a learning tool	p. 92
Soliloquies	p. 100
Other activities for Macbeth	p. 102
Using hot-seating to reinforce learning	p. 106
Freeze-framing	p. 106
Giving witness	p. 107
Re-enactments	p. 108
From book to script	p. 109
From script to book	p. 111
Role play - somebody else's shoes	p. 113
Drama ideas bank	p. 114
Media - they've all watched a film	p. 118
Use of circle time in English	p. 119
Lessons that really work	p. 121
Tribes	p. 121
Your product	p. 125
Traditional version versus modern version	p. 127
Soaps - for characters	p. 129
A comprehension to inspire less-able students	p. 133
Using the story as a stimulus for improving English	p. 134
Ghost stories	p. 135
Student-friendly news and newspapers	p. 136
Postcards home	p. 138
Wordbag	p. 142
Starter lessons	p. 143
For the older students	p. 146
GCSE English: AQA	p. 146
Fact and opinion	p. 148
Looking at audience and purpose	p. 148
Exam practice	p. 148
Looking at stylistic techniques	p. 149
A brief look at the A-level syllabus (AQA)	p. 151
Answers	p. 159
Sentences	p. 159
Capital letters	p. 159
Full stops	p. 159
Sentences ending in full stops, question marks or exclamation marks	p. 159
Vowels	p. 160
Empty House	p. 160
Group/pair work	p. 160
The sinking of the SS Golden Gate	p. 161
Foxes	p. 161
Silvershine	p. 162
Woman in White	p. 162
Computer Nerd	p. 163
Juliet's Lament	p. 163
Macbeth's Lament	p. 163
Questions on Macbeth	p. 163
Macbeth's speech	p. 165
Sinister Monologue	p. 165
Trapped	p. 166
Sentences	p. 166
Jumbled sentences	p. 166
The Attic	p. 166
Plurals not apostrophes	p. 167
The Lake Isle of Innisfree	p. 167
Conclusion	p. 168
References	p. 171
Index	p. 173
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