Transcript Bell Teacher Campus Cambridge

Week One
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Creativity
Multiple Intelligences
Warmers, Fillers and Coolers
Bringing the coursebook to life
Vocab variations
Textploitation
Text, tasks, culture and differentiation
Ways of reviewing and recycling vocabulary
Week Two
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Critical Thinking and Philosophy in Primary
Practical ideas to encourage students to speak
Creative grammar practice
„Raining cats and dogs“?
Creative pronunciation
Sing, sang, sung
Creative and Collaborative writing
Using images
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Pros
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Lack of creativityreasons
Haiku
 Acrostic poems
„Teacher´s Desk“
E lastic bands (confiscated)
A box of tissues
C up of tea (cold)
H anky
E ggboxes (useful)
R egister
S ausage roll (half eaten)
D iary (last year´s)
E lastoplasts (for cut knees)
S ellotape (used up)
K ind words (unlimited supply)
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„A hot chair“
„A birthday line“
The three letter game R T N (2 mins, in any
order)
Fillers
 Pictionary
Coolers
 Opposite dictation
Support listening
 Involves drama
 It´s fun!
 Supports language production and
emotional thinking
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Ss study the list for 5 minutes
How many can they write down without looking?
Give the definition; Ss must tell you the word
Read aloud the list, Ss repeat (whispering, raising the
voice, tapping out the words, etc.)
Ss pair or group the words that rhyme
Group together all the verbs, nouns, adjectives, etc.
Ss change the nouns to adjectives (word formation)
Give the negatives/ opposites
Sort them into vocab associated to women and men
Choose the words you like/don´t like and why
Wrong spelling- Ss correct
Ss write down 10 words from the list- pass it to the
classmate to translate them- pass it back to check
the spelling
In pairs- write a short poem or a story containing 10
words
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Assume the role of one of the characters in a
picture.
What´s my name?
What´s happening? What´s just happened to
me?
What am I feeling now?
How am I connected to the other people
here?
What´s going to happen next?
What do I regret? OR What am I looking
forward to?
What do I wish most in the world?
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Change of pace
Fun- a break from books
„Disguised“ learning
Goldmine for a wide variety of vocabulary
items
Motivating
Phonological features practice: assimillation,
elision, word stress, weak sounds, etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdMPuMeTx
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http://lyricstraining.com