Speaking

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Speaking

• How to improve

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how to make the most of speaking in an english
Lesson

• Make a good atmoshere
• Choose a challenging topic
• Give enough preparation time
• Present new needed vocabulary
• Leave as much as you can on students

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Problems in speaking

• How to begin
• Problem with recalling words
• Poor wordpower
• Speed and correctness of the speech

• Topic
• Class
• Teacher
• Stress
• Lack of interest

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Before speaking

• Set a topic
• Revise old vocabulary
• Teach new vocabulary

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Try to use mind maps

• Help to Revise
• Organize
• Include new
• Remember
• Learn
• Communicate
• vocabulary

• Involve mainly pupils
• Are easily adapted to the way each pupil thinks
• Include both hemisphers
• Ease off stress and fear
• Make the pupils work creatively

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Mind Mapping

• Mind Mapping is a powerful but simple way of
  using diagrams to show information in the same
  way you think.
• Mind Mapping makes it easy to
• understand
• remember
• communicate complex information.

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How do we create a map?
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How do we create a map?

• start with a central topic
• add branches radiating from the center, and then
  sub-branches
• use your own words and connections that make
  sense to you

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What is it good for?

• Students first think before they speak
• They can learn new vocabulary in their own way
• They work creatively
• It takes less time than writing the whole text
• It is more effective than reading a prepared
  speaking text
• They can have fun

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when are they useful?

• As a preparation for any speaking tasks such as

• Interview
• Discussion
• Presentation
• Description
• Role play

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revision

• For revising old vocabulary
• Teaching new vocabulary
• For speaking complex ideas
• Organisation of ideas
• Visualization of ones thoughts
• Crative writing and speaking

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A few words about smartboards

• Critic

• Students are passive
• Insufficient time for everyone being at the
  smartboard
• No interactive effect as was expected

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Great possibilities in lessons

• One great advantage besides others that include
  various programmes for smartboards
• Authentic access to the internet

• You can use materials provided on the internet
  for teaching English
• Great possibilities of pictures, music, texts,
• You can use modern programmes like novamind for
  teaching directly in the lesson

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novamind is a programme for creating mind maps
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Some exercises
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reOrganize those words in to a mind map

• Merry Christmas
• Mistletoe
• Christmas tree
• Trimming the tree
• Christmas ornaments
• Turkey
• Christmas lights
• Manger
• Nativity scene
• White Christmas
• Stockings
• Santa Claus
• Christmas eve
• Christmas dinner

• Reindeer
• Sleigh
• Wrapped gifts
• Eggnog
• Christmas carols
• Christmas cards
• The Holiday Season
• Christmas shopping
• Write a letter to Santa Claus
• Christmas Wish list
• Sit on Santa Clauss lap
• Santas helpers
• Carving the carp
• Christmas pudding