Creative ways to use the English language: An interactive approach

Creative ways to use the English language: An interactive approach

It is an answer to the new methodological trend of skills integration in the teaching of ESL-EFL. This book is meant to be used in upper levels of teacher education programs, but it may also be useful in continued education courses. This book offers teachers a variety of lessons that could be used as stand-alone material to make their clasess more dynamic and capitalize on students motivation. By providing opportunities to bring about topics of the students own lives, it gives them themes they can relate to, allowing therm to exploit their personal interests and their reactions to any event present in the classroom. Moreover, the book is intended to work as a generator of ideas to help the creative teachers adjust their classroom activities and to serve as bases for designing new ones. This book offers teachers a variety of lessons that could be used as stand-alone material to make their clasess more dynamic and capitalize on students motivation. By providing opportunities to bring about topics of the students own lives, it gives them themes they can relate to, allowing therm to exploit their personal interests and their reactions to any event present in the classroom. Moreover, the book is intended to work as a generator of ideas to help the creative teachers adjust their classroom activities and to serve as bases for designing new ones.
Introduction

Lesson 1
Making Housing Arrangements

Lesson 2
Life Is Hard!

Lesson 3
Gettindf the Message

Lesson 4
Musical Images

Lesson 5
Fact or Illusion?

Lesson 6
Chant to a Hero

Lesson 7
Keep Up Your Spirits!

Lesson 8
Famous People

Lesson 9
Myths

Lesson 10
Civil rights

Lesson 11
Gizmos, Gadgets and thingamajings

Lesson 12
About Test

Lesson 13
The Written Text

Lesson 14
Sending Messages

Lesson 15
Let´s celebrate!

Lesson 16
Love contract

Lesson 17
Build a Story

Appendix 1

Appendx 2

References

  • FOR000000 ESTUDIO DE IDIOMA EXTRANJERO > General
  • CJ
  • Lingüística y Lenguas