Hi, and welcome to my world :)
So, here I am 24, teaching English as a foreign language mostly in a language school, 'lessly' at ELTE University, Department of English Language Pedagogy. Last week I made a new invention - at least I thought it was my invention - the unexplored opportunities in online language teaching. About the 'not my invention' later...
There I was with 6 very devoted university students in the middle of the strike when the public transport died in our beloved hometown. Here's what I thought we might be able to do! Why don't we gather up on msn messenger and have an online session in a chatroom? Wow, how cool is that - did I think. So on Friday morning I woke up with great expectations. I started to figure out what to do. After like 10 minutes or so, ideas started to come up (stream of consciouseness as you might now) and I had a good collection of online activites in 30 minutes. Nice. So, vocabulary-wise these websites cought my attention: http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/ and http://www.englishpage.com/prepositions/phrasaldictionary.html . Very impressive, very handy. Listening-wise, obviously youtube... Let me present the tasks:
1. How many accents does he mime? Name some interesting characteristics about the different accents (vocabulary, pronunciation, whatever you find interesting).
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xq9Iy1k9yRc&feature=related
2. Write down as many conditional sentences as possible that you hear in this song. (Please don’t search the lyrics on the web :)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=x25F3-sR2Yo&feature=related
3. How does Jason Mraz describe his new album? Note down as many details as possible.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=S1nd0HmXouk
So, this was it. Hope you guys out there find these useful.
About my magnifiscent plans later on, unfortunately I have to go and make actual money, not just deaming of it. This was more than enough for a very first entry.
Cheers,
Orsi
This is a place where I can let my stream of consciousness flow. About teaching. About teaching English as a foreign language. If you're interested hop in the truck!
About me
- Orsi
- Budapest, Hungary
- I'm a geeky kind of teacher. Definitely tech savvy. Devoted to studying and exploring all that's new in language teaching.
2 comments:
Hi Orsi!
Since you're writing in English, I'll comment in English too, though it's a bit weird :)
As you might know, I'm only teaching French (I decided to leave English to you talented lot ;)), but I think that your idea is extremely brilliant methodologically speaking. Can't wait to see more ideas on the blog, I'm sure many people will find it useful and even more students will be grateful to you, for mordenising the old school languages classes (I mean come on, we all know how a boring grammar-based lesson can kill your enthousiasm for ever!).
Of course, using MSN won't work for say finance executives, but exploring new horizons is always nice :)
Good luck!
Zsu
Hey, cheers Zsu!
Really looking forward to your comments and remarks ;)
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