Teaching English as a Foreign Language

180 Part III: Teaching Skills Classes Typically, native speakers pronounce consonants and vowels as though they were joined toge ...

Chapter 12: What Accent? Teaching Pronunciation 181 Imagine how this dialogue sounds in the following cases, especially the resp ...

182 Part III: Teaching Skills Classes Figure 12-2: Showing ris- ing or falling intonation. You are waiting for me, aren’t you? Y ...

Chapter 13 Setting Their Tongues Wagging: Speaking and Discussion In This Chapter ▶ Starting the ball rolling ▶ Making the conve ...

184 Part III: Teaching Skills Classes Warming up Anyone who speaks a foreign language knows that if you don’t use it, you lose i ...

Chapter 13: Setting Their Tongues Wagging: Speaking and Discussion 185 This warmer is good for getting a team spirit going right ...

186 Part III: Teaching Skills Classes Table 13-1 Practising ‘how much is/how much are’ Partner A Partner B Menu Menu Starter Sta ...

Chapter 13: Setting Their Tongues Wagging: Speaking and Discussion 187 Set a time limit of about three minutes, get them starte ...

188 Part III: Teaching Skills Classes ✓ Why is that? ✓ What do you mean? ✓ What do you think? ✓ What else? Once the conversation ...

Chapter 13: Setting Their Tongues Wagging: Speaking and Discussion 189 Following up In addition to extending conversations gener ...

190 Part III: Teaching Skills Classes I find that if you prompt students with some secondary questions, and give them a minute t ...

Chapter 13: Setting Their Tongues Wagging: Speaking and Discussion 191 One of several ways of showing that your expressions are ...

192 Part III: Teaching Skills Classes Interjecting It may seem rude to butt in, but in real life sometimes you need to leave bef ...

Chapter 13: Setting Their Tongues Wagging: Speaking and Discussion 193 Planning a Discussion Lesson In Chapter 6 I talk about pr ...

194 Part III: Teaching Skills Classes Creating structure in the discussion A 20-minute discussion doesn’t just happen by itself ...

Chapter 14 Chapter 14: In One Ear, Out the Other: Learning To Listen Learning To Listen In This Chapter ▶ Listening twice for go ...

196 Part III: Teaching Skills Classes compare their answers and discuss them with you. You follow the same order for the second, ...

Chapter 14: In One Ear, Out the Other: Learning To Listen 197 Short, authentic listening texts work because they provide student ...

198 Part III: Teaching Skills Classes Choosing the material from course books Pre-recorded listening texts that accompany the co ...

Chapter 14: In One Ear, Out the Other: Learning To Listen 199 Try http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer for fairly current BBC shows firs ...