sábado, 6 de diciembre de 2014

UNIT 16: PRESENTATION TECHNIQUES AND INTRODUCTORY ACTIVITIES


This unit was a little difficult to understand for me because I got confuse in realize what is the different between preparation techniques and introductory activities and it can help students. So I am going to write what each of them means. First, preparation techniques are the ways used by the teacher to focus learners´ attention on form and meaning of the target language, when introducing them for the first time. On the other hand, introductory activities are used by teachers to introduce a lesson. As you can see both are the activities that a teacher uses to introduce a lesson or teaching topic, but introductory activities are different from presentation activities. There are two different ways of presenting new language items; Presentation Practice and Production (PPP) and Task-based Learning (TBL); the first one is more appropriate for beginners’ students, teacher guided the lesson and teacher produce the grammar explanation and the second one is better for intermodal-advanced students, the lesson is more centered in students and scholars have to find out how grammar works. Second, the introductory stage of a lesson helps students to settle into the lesson and focus on its content. There are two kinds of introductory activities that help students into the classroom: warmers -use to raise students ‘energy level- and lead-ins -introduce the content of the lesson motivating students and linking the lesson with students own live (personalization). To conclude, thinking as a teacher I would use both preparation techniques and introductory activities, but I would take into account the level, interest, age, weakness and strength in English and learning style of my students.




Bibliography:


  • Mary Spratt, Alan Pulverness, Melanie Williams (2001) TKT Teaching Knowledge Test course Module 1,2 and 3
  • https://prezi.com/favx3bysftea/what-are-presentation-techniques-and-introductory-activities/

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