OPINIONS ON LEARNING A LANGUAGE
· Form groups of 3 or 4
· Below these instructions you will see some statements. Look at the first one. If everybody in your group agrees with it, put a tick ( ) next to it and move on to the next one. However, if you disagree with it, you have to re-write it as a group. This means that you all have to come to an agreement as a group.
· If you finish before the other groups, write some propositions of your own.
1. British English is better than American English because it is more correct.
2. Teachers should speak less in class. Class time is for students to practise speaking, not for the teacher to enjoy the sound of her own voice.
3. Speaking with another student in class is a total waste of time and possibly harmful: you each make mistakes which no one corrects and you may ‘infect’ each other with your own personal mistakes.
4. Small classes are usually really boring: it is far more stimulating to have a large and lively class. With good resources (photocopier, video, etc.) people learn just as well, if not better, in a large class as in a small class.
5. Conversation classes do not help improve your English. To improve you really need to study English outside the classroom.
6. When you start studying English you really improve quickly. And then when you reach higher levels, you just stop improving. It’s very frustrating.
7. You can only really learn a language if you live in the country where it is spoken.
8. You can learn a language by yourself with a book and some tapes.
Any good activities?
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2 comentarios:
Nice - but I could never use this on my first day. And this is
the type of exercise I like to develop over the best part of a
full class, definitely not 15min.
I don't know if you'd call it a variation, but you can also have
students in small groups discussing their expectations of the course- what they hope to achieve? what kind of activities they expect to be doing in the classroom? how much homework do they think is needed? what things do they hope they won't have to do? what is their role as a student? what is the teacher's role? do they remember the best/worst English lesson they ever had? what made it special/bad?
This is sometimes extended into the idea of a Students Charter
(normally with younger students/teens) or a Teacher/student contract. It needs to be done early in the course but it can't be squeezed into 15 min.
Cut the questions in half (4 + 4), divide into groups to discuss (on cards?) and then pair off to compare and explain what thye have talked about.
Pascal
P.S. I'll probably try this one
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