UNIT 16

PRESENTATION TECHNIQUES AND INTRODUCTORY ACTIVITIES

       Through this topic I learnt to differentiate between presentation techniques which represent learners’ attention on meaning, use and form of the new language and introductory activities which involve activities used to present a lesson or topic.  Let’s start by talking about two most well-known approaches such as: Presentation, Practice and Production (PPP) and Task Based Learning (TBL). In order to introduce these approaches’ topics are most suitable to present lead-in activities (command drills, writing a long sentence on the board, ask questions, etc.) because are used to activate students’ prior knowledge. In addition, teachers do mingle activities (find your partner, shopping speaking, what’s in a name, etc.) All of these activities used by teachers let students’ personalization and motivation because they create a positive atmosphere for learning. After that, teachers present the lesson or topic by following the presentation, practice and production stage. For example, the teacher first puts the target language into a situation, next the teacher models the target language, then students repeat the target language in a choral drill or restricted practice activities,  and then teacher asks the students concept questions to check their understanding. In addition, all these steps involve grammatical structures, guided discovery activities to let students’ comprehension. To sum up, presenting new language involves the teacher in making various choices like warmers, resources and assignment. Consequently, as future teacher I will apply lead-in activities to activate students’ schemata at the beginning, if students feel tired I will apply warmers to wake up students and make them interested and motivated to learn and to check if students understand the topic I will apply a gap-filling exercise, worksheet to work in pairs and so on.  

These links will provide extra information:

http://books.google.com.ec/bookshl=es&lr=&id=_XoAAQAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR8&dq=techniques+to+teach+english&ots=_F10UIHPeC&sig=Qjq1NmTAudtUoYSxGE7zi-Attf4#v=onepage&q=techniques%20to%20teach%20english&f=false 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wp51XS_acE