B1 C2 ideas for teaching exam classes

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1 B1 C2 ideas for teaching exam classes Learner Autonomy: SWOT questionnaires repeat throughout the year Learning Strategies questionnaires take responsibility for progress Course expectactions questionnaires Reading: Newspapers + Vocabulary in context active / passive? Article analysis sheet Use of L1: Student- made vocabulary tests Noticing similarities and differences Translating song lyrics Attitudes to use of L1 in class questionnaire Works in Spanish AND in English? Idioms in L1 and L2 Back translation from reading texts + noticing afterwards Collocation Dictionaries: Find a better word for X Guess the word from its synonyms and usage Explore a word through gap fills

2 Writing: Draw a story put pictures in order or guess which story is represented in the pictures Write part of a composition in class in groups beginning, middle or end and compare with the original Composition dictogloss reconstruct and compare with the original Target Reader photos Composition overview of task- type and analysis Register moving from formal neutral informal language equivalents Exam Technique: Common words tested in gap fills Student- produced gap fills from reading texts Darts word formation on the IWB Grass skirts sentence transformations to throw away Inversion Word magnets + great classroom uses Listening: Part 4 CAE listening which task to do first? Can songs help? 15 different ways to prepare song lyrics then get your students to make them Whatsapp? Speaking: Student- made recordings and recorded teacher feedback Board games remember the phrasal verbs Part 1 questions ideas for how to use and improve Vocabulary: How to record words more than just 1 word Pictionary make it work A+B Vocab Ladders The importance of recycling Elspeth Dominoes Pollock TESOL Student- produced March 2013 materials B1toC2 Materials

3 Chimps Days in Labs May Be Dwindling By JAMES GORMAN (NY Times NEW IBERIA, La. In a dome-shaped outdoor cage, a dozen chimpanzees are hooting. The hair on their shoulders sticks straight up. That s piloerection, a sign of emotional arousal, says Dr. Dana Hasselschwert, head of veterinary sciences at the New Iberia Research Center. She tells a visitor to keep his distance. The chimps tend to throw pebbles or worse when they get excited. Chimps similarity to humans makes them valuable for research, and at the same time inspires intense sympathy. To research scientists, they may look like the best chance to cure terrible diseases. But to many other people, they look like relatives behind bars. Biomedical research on chimps helped produce a vaccine for hepatitis B, and is aimed at one for hepatitis C, which infects 170 million people worldwide, but there has long been an outcry against the research as cruel and unnecessary. Now, because of a major push by advocacy organizations, a decision to stop such research in the United States could come within a year. As it is, the United States is one of only two countries that conduct invasive research on chimpanzees. The other is the central African nation of Gabon. FCE CPE Put the procedure in order for the dictogloss:

4 Different ways to prepare a song for class: Which line of the song corresponds to which type of preparation? LINE: 1. Gap fill individual words and write definitions 2. Gap fill individual words and draw pictures 3. Gap fill individual words and give synonyms 4. Replace words with phonemic transcript 5. Replace words with Spanish equivalent 6. Replace phrases with Spanish equivalent 7. Take out certain words and replace with any old word 8. Take out words and put a choice at the bottom of the page / in brackets after the gap with a couple of extra words to confuse 9. Put letters of individual words out of order 10. Put words in a line of the song out of order 11. Put the different lines of a verse of the song out of order Now find a song you like and get the lyrics from the internet. Make a listening worksheet for the students in your class by using some or all of these ways to prepare a song.

5 Adele rolling in the deep 1. There s a fire starting in my heart 2. Reaching a fever, (witch / pitch / which / ditch) 3. it s bringing me out the park 4. Finally I can see you crystal clear 5. Go ahead and sell me out 6. and I'll lay your shit bare 7. See how I leave with every piece of you 8. Don t underestimate the things that I will do 9. There s a fire starting in my 10. Reaching a fever pitch 11. And its bring me out the dark 12. The scars of your love remind me of us 13. They keep me thinking that we almost had it all 14. The scars of your love they leave me (without air adj.) 15. I can t help feeling 16. We could have had it all 17. Rolling in the deep 18. hand You inside my of heart your had 19. And you played it 20. To the beat 21. Baby I have no story to be told 22. But I ve heard one of you 23. And I m gonna make your head burn 24. Think of me in the depths of your srpdaei 25. Making a home down there 26. It reminds you of the home we shared 27. Las cicatrices de tu amor me recuerdan a nosotros 28. They keep me thinking that we almost had it all 29. The /ska:z/ of your love they leave me breathless 30. I can t help feeling 31. We could have had it all 32. Rolling in the deep 33. You had my heart inside of your hand 34. And you played it 35. To the beat Repeat Chorus 36. Turned my (tristeza) into treasured gold 37. You pay me back in kind and reap just what you sow 38. Count your blessings to find what you look for 39. Throw your soul through every open door 40. We could have had it all 41. We could have had it all 42. It all, it all it all, 43. We (might) have had it all 44. Rolling in the deep 45. You had my heart inside of your hand 46. And you played it 47. To the beat

6 Elspeth Pollock ACEIA 2012