vocabulary essentials
What is a method for teaching vocabulary?
Using mime and actions
What is the General Service List
2,000 frequent words by Michael West in 1953 for ESL learners.
What are uses of the blackboard?
Present words, show spelling, model handwriting, write prompts
Examples of visual aids?
Figures, talk slides, posters
What are examples of personal questions?
What is your full name, What is your address, What is your mobile phone number, What is your favorite food, What is your favorite color, and What is your favorite song.
What is the Academic Word List?
570 academic words by Averil Coxhead, in 10 sublists, excludes GSL.
How can real objects be used to practice multiple language points?
for prepositions of place (in, on, beside, between), present perfect (have just...-ed), questions (Is there...? Are there...?), materials (X is made of...), expressions of color, shape, size.
Flashcard activities?
Memory, drilling, identification, TPR
What activity involves personal information questions?
Filling out questions such as What is your full name, What is your address, What is your mobile phone number, What is your favorite food, What is your favorite color, and What is your favorite song.
Who developed AWL, and where?
Averil Coxhead at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
Differentiate between audio aids, visual aids, and audio-visual aids with examples.
Audio aids: Message can only be heard (e.g., tape recorder, radio, telephone). Visual aids: Help visualize the message (e.g., projected: slides, OHP, PowerPoint; non-projected: posters, charts, graphs, models, chalkboards). Audio-visual aids: Message can be heard and seen simultaneously (e.g., projected: video, cinema; non-projected: drama, puppet show, street play).
Functions of graphic organizers?
Describe, compare, classify, sequence, cause-effect, decide.
What criteria were used for selecting words in the General Service List?
The words were selected to represent the most frequent words of English and were taken from a corpus of written English.
How is AWL structured, what excluded?
10 sublists by frequency, excludes GSL's 2,000 words.
What complex grammar points are illustrated in the blackboard examples, and how might they be presented?
Presented with examples written clearly on the board. Questions in present simple (He plays football. Does he play football?); irregular plurals (shelf, shelves; wife, wives); for/since in present perfect (I haven't seen her for a week/since Saturday); contractions (She's reading, He's arrived); result clauses (He worked so hard that he became ill).
Differences in audio, visual, AV aids?
Audio: recorder/radio/phone. Visual: slides/posters/chalkboards. AV: video/drama/puppets
What are the main purposes of teaching through audio-visual aids?
Avoid verbalization, provide sense experience, form concepts, make effective, add variety, inspire, create atmosphere, reduce talking, clarify, save time
According to Burton, what are audio-visual aids?
Sensory objects/images that stimulate/reinforce learning.
the benefits of using real objects in teaching, and how they surpass other aids in certain aspects
Allows learners to see, hear, and touch objects; good for vocabulary, grammar, drills, speaking; provides a multi-sensory experience making learning more concrete and engaging compared to abstract aids
Difference between display and presentation visuals?
Display: view posters/models. Presentation: explain slides/OHP.