Objects in Class

8/11/2019 Objects in Class

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Realia


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What is realia?

realia means using real items found in the world

around us to help teach English

Using realia, helps to make English lessons

memorable, creating a link between theobjects, and the word or phrase they showed.


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Why we use realia?

Using realia stimulates the mind, and makes the

vocabulary more memorable than a picture would

Students can, touch , smell, and with a food item, tasteit.

Realia saves time, as recognition of an object is oftenimmediate; elicitation of vocabulary becomes mucheasier as simply holding up the object with a raisedeyebrow, will usually result in the target word beingspoken.


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Limitations in using realia

Size of the realia

Quantity of the realia


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Realia for young learners

Young learners like nothing better than playing with

toys. Use this to your advantage

Learning animal names? Then take along some soft

probably isnt going to be possible to bring along a

but plastic toys work beautifully! Bring in fruit, vegeta

and lots of toys.

Get your young learners moving animal about, crea

farmyard, and move those animals into the field, the

the farmyard


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Pictures


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About pictures

Pictures are all around us everyday, in the street

at work, at home and even in our leisure time, so

why not in the classroom as well?

They are enjoyable, they set the scene orcontext, they inform us, they interest us, they are

a key resource. To be even more specific,picture stories are also common in everyday life


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Why we use pictures?

As well as enjoying pictures they also form a key

resource for accessing the different learning

styles that each student has.

Using pictures really appeals to visual learnerswho may suffer in a speaking and listening

based classroom


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Picture as drills

Lower-level students, an appropriate use for pictures(flashcards) is in cue response drills.

We nominating a students and getting a response. Thenwe hold up another one and nominate a different

students and so on.

Flashcards are particularly useful for drilling grammaritmes, for cueing different sentences and practicingvocabulary.


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Games based on pictures


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Recreating a picture

Divide students into 2/3 groups and bring in printedpictures of people in different positions (e.g. BeatlesAbby Road cover, etc.) based on the number ofstudents in each group.

Next, in each group, volunteer one student and givethem a picture. By describing the pictures, that studentshould arrange their peers just like the original. Othergroup members do the same using different pictures. Thalso is a great gestures vocabulary review exercise


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Whos lying?

Divide students in groups of three and have them sit in their groupsin a way that two sit next to each other while one in front of them.

The idea is that students sitting next to each other are teammatesand should describe two different pictures (provided by theteacher) to the third student.

However, one of them should lie and give wrong info. The third

student should find out who is lying by asking questions about thedetails and catch the liar! Then they change places and gamegoes on.My students really love these and it really help them to practicespeaking, using various vocabulary while having real fun.


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Cards


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Produce them in various shapes and sizesUse thick paper

Laminate them


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EXAMPLEOFACTIVITIES

1. Matching and ordering

Matching questions and answers

Matching to produce sentences

Let the pupils move around the classroom looking

pairs (for brief period)To reordering poem or short story in order


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2. Selecting For speaking activity- let the pupils choose one c

make a sentence based on the word Or choose a few cards and incorporate what are

cards into a sentence/short paragraph.

Let the pupils describe the word and ask the rest


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3. Card gamesCan be done by having the pupils to sit in groups

Example of game : Snap

Or give cards with word and picture on each side

card. If they pick word , ask them to draw the pict

they pick the picture ask them to say the word.


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Cuisenaire Rods


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WHATISCUISENAIRERODS?

o Originally invented by Belgian educator , Caleb Gattegn

o Originally designed for maths teaching

o They are actually small blocks of woods or plastics with

different length

o Each length is produced in different colours

o The rod are featureless (differentiate by length and colo


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SOMEACTIVITIESBYUSINGRODSFORYOUNGLEARNERS

1. Word stress

C t t t


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2. Construct sentences

Assign each word class with a colour


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3. Word order


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Thank you

Group members :

Aiman

Fakhruddin

Terence

NajwaKhoo Chia Min

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