Ways of Doing: Students Explore their Everyday and Classroom Processes

by Paul Davis , Barbara Garside , Mario Rinvolucri

• ISBN13: 9780521585590
• ISBN10: 0521585597
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-03-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Ways of Doing helps students discover how they do things, both inside and outside the classroom. Based largely on humanistic principles, it over 100 activities designed to encourage students to think, speak and write in English about areas they may never have discussed in their mother tongue. Ways of Doing is a rich source of stimulating and easy-to-use lesson ideas requiring minimal preparation. The activities, which are suitable for a range of levels and ages, deal with the following areas: - examining the patterns and processes in students' everyday life - exploring both the mother tongue and the foreign language - group dynamics - exploring and exploiting the course book - ways of learning - correction and feedback. There is also a special teacher development section.

Table of Contents

Thanks and acknowledgement	ix
Introduction	1	(13)
Everyday process	14	(18)
Daydreaming	14	(2)
I didn't know that a year ago	16	(1)
Excellence in others	17	(1)
Headache	18	(1)
Lifeline	19	(2)
Pizzas	21	(1)
Responsibility	22	(3)
These stressful things	25	(1)
The tempo of time	26	(1)
Transitions	27	(2)
Weariness	29	(1)
Yes, I was special	30	(2)
Language and learning processes	32	(39)
Two pictures	32	(1)
Cloze	33	(2)
Noticing classroom language	35	(1)
Are your students CNN or MTV?	36	(1)
Course evaluation	37	(1)
Disccussions you learn from	38	(1)
Distancing	39	(1)
Dreamy language feedback	40	(2)
They make it easy	42	(1)
Exam worry	42	(1)
Feel--think--do	43	(3)
Good learning, bad learning	46	(1)
Graphs of learning	47	(1)
Language autobiographies	48	(3)
Language-learning experiences	51	(1)
Language-learning anxiety	52	(2)
What about mother tongue?	54	(2)
Spoken three-ways	56	(1)
Your own ABC	57	(1)
Playing with meanings	58	(2)
Rough copy	60	(1)
Spelling test	61	(1)
Study habits	62	(2)
Students write their own exam papers	64	(2)
Time management 1	66	(2)
Weak points, strong points	68	(1)
When do I speak well?	69	(2)
Group process	71	(38)
Anonymous envelopes	71	(1)
Ballon debate	72	(1)
Circle of light	73	(2)
Group collage	75	(1)
Does this teacher help me?	76	(2)
Ducks and pigeons	78	(2)
If you were a flower	80	(1)
Good gossip	81	(2)
Group sculpt	83	(1)
Loud and quiet	84	(2)
Mood-sharing dictation	86	(1)
My name's ... and I...	87	(1)
Negotiation	88	(1)
Introducing a new student	89	(1)
Norming	90	(1)
One thing I've learnt	91	(1)
A penny for your thoughts	92	(1)
Biography in pictures	93	(1)
Sharing projections and interpretations	94	(1)
From proton to molecule	95	(2)
The quality of silence	97	(1)
Red herrings	98	(1)
Starting up	99	(1)
Support partners	100	(1)
Where do I sit and why?	101	(2)
What's on top	103	(1)
What are you writing to?	104	(2)
Who would you like to talk to?	106	(1)
Yolks and whites	106	(3)
The coursebook	109	(13)
absent friend(s)	109	(1)
Students analyse their coursebook	110	(2)
Analysing a coursebook unit	112	(1)
Book babies	113	(1)
Book fair	114	(1)
Coursebook quiz	115	(1)
Humanising the coursebook	116	(1)
Roleplay the coursebook	117	(1)
Self-accessing the coursebook	118	(1)
Strudents teach each other	119	(2)
The wrong book at the wrong level	121	(1)
Ways of learning	122	(20)
Four ways	122	(2)
Difficulties with listening: three cases	124	(2)
Modes of perception: 1	126	(2)
Modes of perception: 2	128	(3)
Multiple intelligences	131	(1)
linguistic intelligence	132	(1)
musical intelligence	133	(1)
logical-mathematical intelligence	134	(1)
spatial intelligence	135	(2)
bodily kinaesthetic intelligence	137	(2)
interpersonal intelligence	139	(1)
metaphoric intelligence	140	(1)
naturalistic intelligence	140	(2)
Correction	142	(14)
Correction from eavesdropping	142	(1)
Freeze-frame	143	(1)
Owning your own feedback	144	(1)
Possible or not, yes or no	145	(2)
To praise or not to	147	(2)
Students choose corrections	149	(2)
Stick or twist homework	151	(1)
Student-corrected homework	152	(2)
Total feedback	154	(2)
Teacher to teacher	156	(15)
Blow your colleague's trumpet	156	(1)
Change five things	156	(2)
Creative listening, or: everyone has their own solution	158	(2)
Displaced feedback	160	(2)
Getting labelled	162	(1)
Remembering names	163	(1)
Sharing a class	164	(3)
Students love teachers	167	(1)
Teacher mapping	168	(1)
Time management 2	169	(2)
Bibliography	171