A Winner and a Whole Raft of Vocab Based Resources
I have had a spectacular week! Pat Metheny was excellent and Budapest is such a beautiful city. Highly recommended if you get the chance!
I've also got a nice announcement to make. There was stiff competition but the winner of my VoiCE Scholarship place is Sarah Mohieldin from Egypt. She’s planning to use video to help her current learners and make online courses in the future and I'm looking forward to helping her develop this into a thriving business.
If you've got a case of FOMO about video making, I'm afraid this cohort is full now, but I'll be running it again in January, so look out for it!
OK, I've been focusing on the VoiCE programme over the past few weeks so time to come back to more practical classroom material and I've got a bit of a focus on teaching vocabulary today. Grab your beverage of choice - here we go....
Something old
AI continues to surround us and whatever the difficulties, there are so many ways that it can help in the classroom (and for preparing outside it!). I've got a couple of great ideas here for using it to teach vocabulary - one for inside class, one for learners outside class.
If you like these and want some really practical ways to slash your preparation time and use AI to produce material that's pedagogically communicative and tailored to your class, check out my AI Powered Language Teaching course. Hundreds of teachers have taken it now and I get great feedback on it.
Something new
Moving on, sticking with vocabulary but going back to basics. My something new this week is aimed at those of you who are doing CELTA, thinking about it or in the early stages of your career. It's three ways to introduce vocabulary with the advantages and pitfalls of each. Give it a watch and see which you think is most appropriate for your class(es) and situation. As always, feel free to let me know - I love hearing from people.
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Something borrowed
I thought I'd aim for theoretical AND practical in this section today. The theory side of things is fascinating, even though it's now quite old. It's about how we learn language from what Michael Hoey calls Lexical Priming. This is his IATEFL plenary on 'The implications of a corpus linguistic theory for learning the English language'. OK, I understand that you might have read that and be skimming immediately onwards to the practical activities.... but DON'T let the title put you off! He's a great speaker and this is VERY interesting stuff. Give it a go....
Want something practical too? Here you go. Six low preparation vocabulary activities! See which one you like and let me know :)
Finally, this probably doesn't apply to many of you but if you're in need of improving your presentation skills in German, one of my VoiCE alumni, Alexander Becker, has a course to help you. If this is you, or you know anyone it could help, do pass it on!
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