Thursday, October 04, 2007

New eJournal about the English language

Below you'll find the link to a new online journal on a topic we all know and love: the English language.
Check out the new eJournal, Dynamic English online: http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itsv/0807/ijse/ijse0807.htm Or as a pdf file: <>
Enjoy the journal.
Kamal Hadder
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2 comments:

naima said...

Hi dear collegues,
I'd like to share with you a lesson that both my students and I liked so much. It was about using jazz chants in a listening class. Students learnt many things and had a lot of fun!! I'm looking forward to your comments. Thanks!

Lesson plan

Lesson topic:listening using jazz chants

Students Level:beginning 1

Time:45 minutes

Skills emphasized : Listening and developing oral intelligibility through appreciation of the rhythm and intonation patterns of spoken American English.

Target functions and structures :

- asking for names and their spelling,

- greeting others and asking about mutual friends,

- introducing friends in a casual and frequentely used form,

- using short forms of the verb Be.

Objectives :

By the end of the lesson students should be able to :

- review the functions and vocabulary previousely taught: asking for names and their spelling , age, using short forms of the verb Be,

- get used to the sounds and features of American English,

- be aware of the striking difference between written words and their spoken forms.

Materials: Small talk Book and cassette by Carolyn Graham -tape recorder - written copy of conversations for students



I- Activity1 : warm-up

T briefly reviews the previous lesson by asking students about their
names, how they are spelt, their age, their home towns......

II- Activity 2 : Listening

Step 1:Students listen to chant n°1 on the cassette

Step 2 : Students listen once again and try in pairs to fill in blanks with words from the chant.

Step 3 : Class correction of the exercice .

Step 4: students repeat sounds they find difficult.

Step 5: teacher along with students establish the rhythm by snapping fingers, then students repeat each line of the chant after the teacher

Step 6: Students listen again to the chant on the cassette

Step 7 : Class is devided into 2 groups ( 2 rows for each group). Each group is given a role and repeats his lines after the teacher.

Step 8: The 2 groups perform the chant without the teacher modeling.

Step 9: the groups exchange roles while keeping the rhythm with their fingers snapping.

III-Activity 3:practice

- Students in pairs write a dialogue in which they use all what they have just learnt.

- Students act out their dialogues to the whole class.

- Teacher helps them retain the rhythm and intonation paterns as in the chants.

* The same activities were repeated with all the other chants in units 1 and 2 in the jazz chants book .

Reference : Small Talk book and cassette by Carolyn Graham. Oxford
University press.

1:05 PM
Baerbel Schumacher said...

Hey Kamal, have been missing you from the listserv! Please join- what is your yahooemail?
Thansk for the eJournal-great resource

Baerbel

7:51 AM

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