http://teacherlingo.com/search/SearchResults.aspx?o=DateDescending&tag=communication,vocabulary,coursebooks,presentations&orTags=0Search results matching tags 'communication', 'vocabulary', 'coursebooks', and 'presentations'en-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Debug Build: 61120.2)http://teacherlingo.com/blogs/experiences_of_a_teacher_of_english1/archive/2010/11/12/492-catch-every-ball.aspxFri, 12 Nov 2010 11:40:00 GMT2d57f927-24f1-4f58-a78a-cbbebe5f5d42:377188Anonymous<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sJs7axgwgHI/TN02D-4jnaI/AAAAAAAABMs/Lj55RC64lWY/s1600/wimbledon-b%2B%2B%2Btop10inlondon.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN:center;MARGIN:0px auto 10px;WIDTH:400px;DISPLAY:block;HEIGHT:300px;CURSOR:hand;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5538642558783298978" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sJs7axgwgHI/TN02D-4jnaI/AAAAAAAABMs/Lj55RC64lWY/s400/wimbledon-b%2B%2B%2Btop10inlondon.jpg" /></a><br /><div><p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:130%;">One day teacher of English B said to teacher of English A, “Active listening: when the students listen to you as explaining in English how to carry out an exercise from the text book or a game, they are actively listening to you, not simply hearing something. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><br /><p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:130%;">For example this active listening can take place when you (or a student) present, explain the meaning of a word they’ve got to guess, and which one they’ve already learned. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><br /><p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Each student has their unique way to grasp the hints. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><br /><p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:130%;">They may, for example, catch one word - from the presentation - they already know. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><br /><p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Another word sounds as something which resembles a term of their mother tongue, albeit this term has got a very different meaning in English. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><br /><p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:130%;">The students listen carefully, and gaze at any visual prompt from the teacher. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><br /><p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:130%;">They stare at the quick and short process of drawing the object on the board. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><br /><p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Uncounsciously they link chunks of information, making up a scheme of the meaning, although later they can get confused and lost, because there are some words that distract their effort to understand. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><br /><p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:130%;">They connect the description with already known concepts of objects, without being aware of this step of the process. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><br /><p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Summing up, this activity in the class is a nice step forward in their learning a language.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><br /><p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:130%;">/ Photo: Wimbledon, from Top10inlondon web-site.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3384186341106565337-8064070017807587445?l=fernandoexperiences.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>