Using the internet

Overseas Teachers of English Course Teaching with ICT

Professional Development Course Teaching with ICT

Overseas Teachers of English Course Teaching with ICT

A tool for the teacher: Why use the Internet for materials? (adapted from How to Use the Internet in ELT, Teeler, D & Gray, P, Pearson Education Ltd 2000)

Complete the chart: Using Material from the Internet Advantages

Disadvantages

In what ways could a teacher / group of learners use a computer with internet access in the language classroom?

Think about the following points and be prepared to present your ideas to the group: Phonetics and phonology

Speaking skills

Listening skills

Reading skills

Writing skills and composition

Grammar and Vocabulary practice

Communicative activities

Authentic activities and task based lessons

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Overseas Teachers of English Course Teaching with ICT

Task 1- Writing Imagine a character in a story• • • • • • • • • • • •

What’s her/his name?

How old is she/ he?

What does she/he look like?

What does she/he do for a living?

Where does she/he live?

Does she/he have a family?

What kind of person is she/he?

What’s her/his daily routine?

Does she/he have any unusual habits?

What is she/he interested in?

What’s going on in her/his life at the moment? anything else……..

Now open word and with a partner write a short story about your character.

Task 2- Translating Open http://babelfish.yahoo.com/ and translate your story into a foreign language by cutting and pasting from Word.

1. Has the translator made any mistakes? If so, correct them with your partner.

2. Why were these errors made?

3. How could tasks like this help your students?

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Overseas Teachers of English Course Teaching with ICT

Task 3- Grammar Listen and watch your tutor tell you about the place where he/she grew up.

Can you remember any of the sentences that your tutor said when doing the task? Write them in the box.

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Look at the sentences you’ve written down and notice which tenses/grammatical structures were used frequently in the task by your tutor? ______________________________________________ Now tell your partner about the place you grew up using google maps.

Which other grammar points could you use the internet to present and practice easily?

Draw on your own experience of using the internet for successful grammar lessons or any other ideas you have.

Grammar Point Internet Site/ Source Lesson procedure

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Overseas Teachers of English Course Teaching with ICT

Task 4- Ready made lessons 1)

www.onestopenglish.com

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http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/

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http://www.teachingenglish.org/try

Things I like….

Things I like….

Things I like….

Things I don’t like…….

Things I don’t like…….

Things I don’t like…….

Have you used any other good websites for complete lessons? Show your partner and evaluate the sites together.

4) ___________________________________ Things I like….

5) ___________________________________ Things I like….

Things I don’t like…….

Things I don’t like…….

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Overseas Teachers of English Course Teaching with ICT

Task 5- Concordances Go to http://www.lextutor.ca • • • •

choose concordance, choose English, enter word search – eg: said choose a corpus- all of above 3 million words, sort by words to right, hit get concordance(yellow button at the bottom) check small box on the left of every line that you want to select and hit extract. repeat process for told and compare complementation patterns.

You can also try http://www.lextutor.ca/concordance, multi-concordance 1)

What can concordances make students more aware of? ________________________________________

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Which language points would be particularly useful to use concordances with?

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Think of 5 benefits of using concordances for students

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