Creating and Analysing Blogs in the English class

Although there is no road-code or rulebook for blogging, there are general features both for creators and for readers and/or analysts. As a teacher, you likely want your students to respond to and/or analyse blogs, if not actually to produce posts. Here are those features.

Multimodal (Audio/Visual) Language Comprehension : a plug-and-lesson, "Top 10 Things To Do In Santiago"

Teachers new to bilingual and/or international programmes may lack the knowledge and/or experience needed to incorporate visual language in their classes. This session provides a double-period ready-to-use lesson plan with the original multimodal text (video and audio), transcript, language development activities and visual language teaching points with the necessary underlying conceptual content.

Creating a student-centred teacher-friendly lesson using an online video

Students today are increasingly more visual and image-oriented than even those of yesterday, let alone of yester-year. Video-based lessons are appealing to students and advantageous to teachers, and with a little time, thought and attention can provide significant learning and language-practice opportunities.  

Multimodal (Audio/Visual) Language Comprehension : a plug-and-lesson related to green energy

Teachers new to bilingual and/or international programmes may lack the knowledge and/or experience needed to incorporate visual language in their classes. This session provides a double-period ready-to-use lesson plan with the original multimodal text (video and audio), transcript, language development activities and visual language teaching points with the necessary underlying conceptual content.

The Language of Advertising - cereal packets

Join us as we examine persuasive techniques used on cereal packaging, and consider them in terms of language, target audience and the appeals made. We review this single or double plug-and-play lesson outline, which can also be a prompt for other activities and/or a part of a visual language programme strand.

Visual Language - response and analysis, an introduction

 

While EFL programmes focus on Spoken and Written modes (not skills, modes!), E2L/E1L/bilingual programmes also consider Visual language, which just like Spoken and Written also has receptive and productive modes (not skills). This session provides an introduction to Visual Language for new or prospective E2L/E1L/bilingual programme teachers and for those interested in these modes.