WRITING WEEK 13

WRITING WEEK 13

Rebus puzzles. Love'em or hate 'em?

Hour 1

• Freewriting (10)
• Writing skill - synonyms (20)
• Finish up - the first draft of last week's assignment (hedge words plus population pyramid description, causes, and consequences)

Hours 2-3 

• Freewriting (10)
• Short activity  (10)
• New long assignment - cubing tool (30)
• Conferencing and rewrites

What have we done so far?

Analysis and explanation

• murder mystery
• food consumption patterns
• electric car TV commercial
• health and income

Analogies and arguments

• life is a musical
• what is an argument (claim + premise)
• correlation vs causation

Simple stuff

• write sentences based on a family picture and odd items (e.g. table with 3 legs)
• write about one picture (baby image)
• maze puzzle (imperatives)
• prepositional phrases drill
• fluency drill
• read a stanza by the poet Wallace Stevens (Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird)

Writing skills

• parallel structure
• show me, don't tell me
• write interesting first sentences
• answer question: what is good writing with 6+1 writing traits as a framework to teach and evaluate writing
• new general service list for keywords
• editing wordy sentences and empty phrases
• hedge words

Longer passages

• rafting story (use show me skills)
• analyze story structure (Death by Scrabble)
• watch Tiny Story and uses interesting verbs
• six sentences to describe books, movies, and TV shows
• summarize Room 8 video story
• write a story based on the hero's journey

high context

WRITING WEEK 12

WRITING WEEK 12

Back to the campus, redux

• Tuesday online
• Wednesday in class

Tuesday

Tuesday is a rewrite day.
Most of you wrote a good draft of the food analysis.

Some of you wrote nothing.

Those who did the hard work, thank you. Please rewrite your draft. I will try to schedule a short conference and provide feedback with each of you individually on Wednesday.

I'm not sure how conferencing will work in the age of masks and social distancing, but let's try.

Wednesday

Here is the plan for the two hours today

• free writing
• short activity
• long assignment
• feedback

LISTENING WEEK 12

LISTENING WEEK 12

We're in and out of the class this week.

• Tuesday offline
• Wednesday in class

Tuesday

We continue with the core listening drills which we started last week.

Do you remember the routine?

1. Listen to a story a couple of times without the script.
2. Read the script without listening.
3. Read and listen again until you can hear all the word sounds AND understand the ideas.
4. Listen again a few more times until the words flow like musical notes.

Content

Here are the stories for this week.

• https://www.englishlistening.rocks/online-listening-practice-food-quiz/
• https://www.englishlistening.rocks/stories-to-improve-listening-skills-amazon/

Wednesday

On Wednesday, we will have a video a worksheet activity.

Video

Worksheet

Session #1 Course Evaluations

Please complete a course evaluation for each TTP course.

• Content Based Instruction Techniques (Patrick Carle) SECONDARY ONLY
• Cross-curricular Content Techniques (Patrick Carle) ELEMENTARY ONLY
• Cultural Understanding (Jim McIvor)
• Extensive Reading   (Lebow/Woodward)
• Film Studies   (James McIvor)
• Movement & Health (Denis Parnell)
• Listening  (Rob Whyte)
• Short Stories  (Michael Cassidy) SECONDARY ONLY
• Speaking   (Tegan Smith)
• Story-based Teaching   (Denis Parnell)  ELEMENTARY ONLY
• Task-based Language Teaching (Michael Cassidy)
• Teaching Functional English Conversation (Noel Woodward)
• Teaching Workshop (Jeff Lebow)
• Technology Integrated Language Learning   (Jeff Lebow)
• Writing    (Rob Whyte)

      General feedback, ideas, and suggestions 

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Mini-presentation #2: This time in person!

It's time for another round of  Show & Tell!


Your Task: Find a specific aspect of teaching that you’d like to share and/or workshop. This can be...

• A Method - (e.g. speaking jigsaw, flipped classroom, fluency writing, start with a Bang!)
• A Tool/Resource - (e.g. non-naughty pop songs, Class123, Smartboard)
• A Language Skill - (e.g. past perfect progressive, understanding World English accents, asking for directions)

You can get ideas from your own teaching and observations, something you’ve experienced during a TTP course or independent study, the TTPKitchen, your TTP Goals, or any other source.

Please don't re-use materials you've developed for other courses, but this can be something that evolves into your next full teaching demonstration.  You will have 2+ hours of TW time to research this and prepare a mini-presentation.
We will start presentations May 25.

You need to document your mini-presentation and prepare a few discussion questions. To do so, you can make a copy of the Mini-presentation Overview Form and/or create a blog post.

Example Overviews from past sessions:   Secondary   Elementary

TTP2020 Mini-presentations Sign-up (Sessions 1 & 2)  Elementary   Secondary

Brainstormed ideas from  previous TTP Cohorts:  Elementary      Secondary   

A few other sources of ideas (in addition to those listed in the TTP Kitchen)

• Feedly.com - check out the latest posts from your fellow trainees
• Weareteachers.com 온갖 프린트 여기 다있어요 
• Neteacher.co.kr/english/ We can get a lot of teaching materials (PPTs, Videos, Worksheets, etc.) from this site.
  (회원가입 후 교사인증 받아야 함, 플러스 자료 클릭하면 다양한 자료가 무료로 제공됨)  
• Literacyshed.com Many short films and animations sorted  by topics and printable teaching ideas(they have premium version though, free version still good to use.)
• From Teachstarter.com For writing lessons: Capital letters and punctuation &  Editing passage cards , Building Simple Sentences
• Englisch-hilfen.de/en/ German website for learning English. We can get worksheets, test and games

Writing Week#11

WRITING WEEK 11

Finally, we meet mask to mask.

We're still at home and online.

Here's the plan.

• Tuesday: 1 hour online
• Wednesday: 2 hours in class.

Tuesday

Please use this one hour to catch up on your writing assignments.

• Finish the first draft of something if not done yet.
• Rewrite an earlier draft

Wednesday

We will start two activities: one long and one short.

I will use the rest of the time to provide writing feedback.

Part 1: Did she lie?

Look at this murder mystery picture. 

This is what she told the police.

Yesterday, Queenie and her husband Arthur an argument. She left the house and met friends in a bar. Arthur went to a different bar. She said she left the bar at about 1am and asked her friends to come to her house for a drink.

She said she arrived home at 1:30 am. Her friends got to her house about 10 minutes later, about 1:40 am.

When the friends arrived, she opened the door and was shocked. She said something bad happened.

Her husband fell down the stairs. He was coming down for another drink.
She called the police.

The police report said he died from a head injury and he was drunk when he died.

Do you believe here? Explain your answer with facts and cause and effect connections.

Part 2: data analysis and arguments

So far we have completed three writing exercises that are designed to help you create clear arguments.

Here is a list:

• is life a journey?
• income and life span (based on video)
• electric car analysis

Let's do one more.

Data source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/what-the-world-eats/

Listening Week#11

LISTENING WEEK 11

We're NOT in the classroom.

Oh dear, oh my.

Zoom In

I will be sitting in the Zoom room during your Listening period on Wednesday. Drop by if you have any questions about the listening or writing work.

• BTW: please do not book a meeting during that time with other teachers. Thanks.

Part 1

Let's begin with a short, easy listening activity.

Worksheet

Video

Part 2

Listen to this short video with Arnold.

Can you summarize his argument in one sentence?

Submit your one-sentence summary to the TTP writing page.

Part 3

I want to start a series of activities that focus on a core skill: listening fluency.

These drills can help you improve listening speed if you do the work over a long period of time.

There's no improvement if you do these activities for one week and then stop.

In that sense, listening fluency is like losing weight. Thinking about it and doing it will produce different outcomes.

THEORY

I guess that many of you have an extensive vocabulary. Some might be in the 3000-4000 word range. Others are higher in the 10,000 word range.

The problem is your brain. Your brain has not been trained to listen faster.

Now we are going to train your brain to listen faster like Arnold used to pump arm muscles.


THE PLAN

Go to this website: https://www.englishlistening.rocks/

You can find short stories from Level 1 to Level 5.

1. Listen to a story a couple of times without the script.
2. Read the script without listening.
3. Read and listen again until you can hear all the word sounds AND understand the ideas.
4. Listen again a few more times until the words flow like musical notes.

Then stop.

The next day, listen to the same story a couple more times until the words and story are clear, clear, clear.


Later in the day, start a new story. Repeat the listen, read, read while listening, and listen pattern.

Next week, we do it all again with two more stories.

Now you can see we have a listening routine that runs over two days.

Content

Here are the two stories for this week:

https://www.englishlistening.rocks/online-english-lessons-right-and-wrong/

https://www.englishlistening.rocks/free-online-lessons-the-other-side-of-the-river/

• Remember: if you think you don't have enough time, watch the Arnold video again.

Listening Week#10

WEEK 10

Let's take a short break from the heavy-duty TOEFL listening lessons.

This week, there are two listening activities based on food.

Part 1

Play the video.

Listen for the names of human food.

Make a list.

My list has 6 items.
How many can you get?

Part 2

This is a longer lesson. It has a video and a worksheet.

Here is the worksheet.

Below is the video.

Writing Week#10

WRITING WEEK 10

Thank you.

Thank you to the trainees who did the hard work, wrestled with complex ideas, and produced an analysis of the TV commercial.

Well done.

This week, we will build on those thinking and writing skills.

Wrap Up

I made a few general comments based on your writing fyi.

Part 1

The first step is to read the slideshow. It talks about analogies.

For some people, this might be old news, and for others, it might be a refresher.

Part 2

This is a short video by a chap named Alan Watts. He is not famous, but he should be. He was the first person to talk about Buddhist ideas in North America in the public space and in the mass media.

1. Watch this video.
2. Take notes.
3. Summarize the argument using the sentence pattern we learned last week.
4. Evaluate the argument. Is his argument right or wrong? Why?

Part 3

Nothing to do?

Here's a cool idea? Rewrite your electric car analysis.