SECOND DAY 9 OCTOBER 2014

2ND SESSION

COMMUNICATION SKILLS ACROSS THE CURRICULUM

BY KATIE COURTNEY BENNET

Katie Courtney Bennet

 How to encourage our students to speak up in the classroom

• Ask qestions
• Be patient for answers - apply 7 seconds wait-time 
• More groupwork and pairwork
• Praise the students/ reward
• Presentation in class
• Information gap activities - pictures/ words
• Revisit/ review new vocabulary (at least 7 times)
• Problem solving activities
• Open questions 

Sample activity that was carried out in the classroom

1. Paste the passage/ text (content) around the class.
2. Divide the students to move around the class and read different text.
3. Students then sit in their group that read the same text.
4. Group discussion by using the word list provided. (Most of us know that...., Some of us didn't know that..., A few of us know that....)
5. Presentation

* Presentation tips*

To make sure all the students pay attention during presentation, give other students a task. In this example, the other students need to identify the sentence that was used. (word list)

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