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Bad Business English teachers copy,good Business English teachers steal
Claire HartIATEFL BESIG Conference,
Dubrovnik, 20th November [email protected]
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"Good artists copy, great artists steal"
http://bit.ly/v1dwi1
Areas that BE teachers should consider stealing from:
Story-telling
Visual Arts
Poetry
Story-telling
What is it?
Why should BE teachers steal it?
How can we use it in BE courses?
Jan Blake
Let me tell you a story about…http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevecadman/753674780/sizes/m/in/photostream/
Why should you steal it:
Evan Frendo:
-> Story-telling is a useful way of building relationships at work
-> It is common in the workplace
-> It can be an indicator of professionalism
-> It can help the teacher carry out needs analyses
Some ideas for the classroom:
Story matrices and re-telling
Presentation skills/ Audience engagment
Circle story-telling
Show and tell
Language practice
Small talk practice
Visual Arts
What is it?
Why should BE teachers steal it?
How can we use it in BE courses?
I´m not suggesting you use Picassos in the classroom…
Photographs
Diagrams
Controversial art works
Artistic interpretations of their products
Posters and other marketing artwork
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ssoosay/5998044434/
Why should you steal it?
Visual learners
Easier to get the message
Easier to express yourself
Universal, cross-cultural appeal
Makes learning more memorable
My course progress drawing activity
http://www.slideshare.net/nickyhockly/my-course-progress-drawing-activity
delivery
assembly line
How I was feeling before making a phone call in French last week…
But is it art, Banksy?
Cartoons
Some ideas for the classroom
Images to introduce or review vocabulary
Images to introduce and explore a topic
Images to provoke discussion
Images from the news to provoke discussion of current affairs
Images for present continuous practice
Picture dictation
Poetry
What is it?
Why should BE teachers steal it?
How can we use it in BE courses?
We have all read a poem at some point in our lives…Part II: Emily Dickinson’s Lunch Hour
Because I could not stop for lunch,
And leave at half-past three,
I stayed inside my cubicle,
And worked on, grumpily.
I soon recalled I hadn’t brought–
Or purchased on the way–
A sandwich, drink, and bag of chips,
For this contingency.
My window showed where children played
A game out in the sun–
I watched–then turned to face
The work still to be done.
Or, rather, tried to face the work–
Distractions do abound–
And hunger just accelerates
The mental runaround.
My fellow workers paused outside
My cube and talked of food,
And ever since my abdomen
Has given rumblings rude.
‘Tis hours since lunch, and yet there seems
No ending to the day
How long until my work’s complete?
Right now, eternity–
http://thepunnery.wordpress.com/the-parody-collection/parodies-professional-development/office-suite-poems-for-the-modern-workplace/
Why should you steal it
Fun and full of humour.
Easy to relate to.
Can be very memorable.
Difference between spelling and pronunciation.
Practice for syllable and word stress usage.
How many words can you think of that rhyme with RED?
bed read /red/ fed leadzed headled deadmisled undeadwed unread shed misread
said
How many words can you think of that rhyme with YOU?
do/ undo/ redo
knew/ dew/ view/ review/ threw/ withdrew/ renew
sue/ ensue/ rue/ pursue/ queue/ cue
loo/ boo
lieu
ewe
I take it you already knowOf tough and bough and cough and dough?Others may stumble, but not you,On hiccough, thorough, lough and through?Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,To learn of less familiar traps?Beware of heard, a dreadful wordThat looks like beard and sounds like bird,And dead: it's said like bed, not bead - For goodness sake don't call it deed!Watch out for meat and great and threat(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt)
The vagaries of the English language
A moth is not a moth in mother,Nor both in bother, broth in brother,And here is not a match for thereNor dear and fear for bear and pear,And then there's dose and rose and lose –Just look them up - and goose and choose, And cork and work and card and ward,And font and front and word and sword,And do and go and thwart and cart - Come, come, I've hardly made a start!A dreadful language? Man alive!I'd mastered it when I was five!
Quoted by Vivian Cook and Melvin Bragg 2004,by Richard Krogh, in D Bolinger & D A Sears, Aspects of Language, 1981,and in Spelling Progress Bulletin March 1961, Brush up on your English.
Limericks
HE STARTED IN WORK AS A CHAUFFEUR,HE RETIRED AND BECAME THE FIRM'S "GOFER".HE WASN'T DEPENDABLE,HE BECAME EXPENDABLE,HE WAS FAR MORE AT HOME ON THE SOFA!!
A TYPIST HAD A PROBLEM TO WAKE UP,SO THEN HAD TO RUSH MORNING MAKE-UP.THE OTHER GIRLS IN THE POOLSAID HER MAKE-UP LOOKED COOL,SHE NEEDED A COSMETIC SHAKE-UP!!
http://limericks.5gl.net/occupations/a.htm
Underline the stressed words
HE STARTED IN WORK AS A CHAUFFEUR,HE RETIRED AND BECAME THE FIRM'S "GOFER".HE WASN'T DEPENDABLE,HE BECAME EXPENDABLE,HE WAS FAR MORE AT HOME ON THE SOFA!!
A TYPIST HAD A PROBLEM TO WAKE UP,SO THEN HAD TO RUSH MORNING MAKE-UP.THE OTHER GIRLS IN THE POOLSAID HER MAKE-UP LOOKED COOL,SHE NEEDED A COSMETIC SHAKE-UP!!
Some ideas for the classroom
Rhyming activities
Homonyms
Error correction of homnyms incorrectly used in writing, e.g. in emails.
Syllable and word stress.
Try writing a poem.
Stimulus for discussion.
Thank you for your participation
The slides from this workshop will soon be available to download on my blog:
www.businessenglishlessonplans.
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