PENNY UR Penny Ur was educated at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. She emigrated to Israel in 1967, where she still lives today. She is married with four children and five grandchildren. Penny Ur has thirty years' experience as an English teacher in primary and secondary schools in Israel. She is interested in all aspects of language-teaching methodology, but in particular issues of fluency and accuracy in language teaching and language-learning.
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PENNY UR
Penny Ur was educated at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. She emigrated to Israel in 1967, where she still lives today. She is married with
four children and five grandchildren. Penny Ur has thirty years' experience as
an English teacher in primary and secondary schools in Israel.
She is interested in all aspects of language-teaching methodology, but in
particular issues of fluency and accuracy in language teaching and
language-learning.
A COURSE IN LANGUAGE TEACHING
This interesting book provides all the task material, reading
and worksheets that you need in order to teach. It also will give you additional guidance
and information to help you use the material effectively.
Strategies, advices and activities to develop the different skills in English
Teaching.
It offers us the opportunity to have critical reflections on the tasks and to share and discuss with other members about the different contents.
“A course in Language Teaching” eases the acquisition of the material that the author recommends to use in English classes.
In this book you will find different activities to work on:
It is a very important module that certainly will help us in
English teaching. This module Contains activities that incite
students to speak spontaneously about
situations.At the end of the book there are
short but interesting activities to be implemented
in the classroom.
USEFULNESS
To offer variety to the class. Implementation of new
strategies for English teaching; to make english classes
fascinating. To be critical, responsible and
conscious in our role of teacher. To be creative, resourceful and
autonomous. To reflect on our way of
teaching. This book invites us to give opinions, agreements and
disagreements. Advices to face situations in
English Language Teaching. To value teacher`s labor.
ACTIVITIES
TEACHING VOCABULARY
Which of the prefixes in column A can combine with which of the words in column B. Write out the complete words.
A BOVER HUMANTRANS NATIONALSUPER FLOWDIS FORMINTER INFECT
Choose the letter of the item which is the nearest in meaning to the word in bracket.He was (reluctant) to answerA)Unprepared C) refusingB) unwilling D) slow
Choose the letter of the definition which comes closet in meaning to the word elated
Ready and willing Tense and excited Tending to talk aloud In high spirit
Complete the passage using the words from the list.
Area, century, pirates, government, regularly, South.
In the seventh ________ Spanish ships sailed ________ to Central and ________ America to fetch gold for the Spanish ____________. The ships were often attacked by _______, who infested the Spanish Main (the sea _______ north-east of Central and South America)
TEACHING GRAMMAR
Type 1: Controlled drills: learners produce examples of the structure; these examples are, however, predetermined by the teacher or the textbook and have to conform to very clear, closed-ended cues.
Example: John drinks tea but he doesn’t drink coffee Like: ice cream/cake Speak: Spanish/Italian Enjoy: playing football/playing chess
TEACHING SPEAKING
PICRTURES DIFFERENCES
The students are in pairs; each member of the pairs have a different picture (either A or B).Without showing other their picture they have to find out what the differences are between them. (There are eleven).
TEAHING READING
Criticizing reading materials:In Boxes 10.12.1 are five examples of texts in English for intermediate to advanced readers. The first three are accompanied by tasks; the last two are not. What would be your comments on the first three? And can you design your tasks for others?
TEACHING WRITING
Some textbook writing activities: Write a report of a book you have just
read. Write a narrative based on a picture
or a series of pictures. Describe an occasion when you where
disappointed or afraid, surprised… Look art the window and describe the
view you see. Write an answer to a given letter of
complaint. Imagine your ideal school. Describe it.
Describe someone you know very
well.
As adults we appreciate how great teachers influenced our lives!