New technologies are very related to young people,
one of the electronic devices with which they are very familiarized are: the mobile phones.
Most of them have a mobile phone , which is sometimes a problem in class.
In order to abbreviate language , mobile phones have adapted their language to new times.
Here is the list of some abbreviations:
2 : two
msg: message
2day: today
2nite: tonight
CU : see you
NE1: anyone.
PPL: people
WAN2: want to
THX: thanks.
WKND: weekend.
H8: eight.
M8: mate.
NJOY: enjoy
R: are
RU: are you
FYI: for your information
NO1: no one
We can create some messages such as:
CU 2NITE: See you tonight.
CU L8R : See you later.
THX FYI: Thanks for your information.
Apart from these abbreviated language , we can learn some useful sentences like these :
Ø What’s your mob phone number?
Ø Please , switch off your mobile phone.
Ø My phone needs charging.
Ø You get a better signal at the corridor.
Ø I have a missed call from home.
Ø How do I download that ringtone?
Ø I’ve got my phone on “vibrate”.
We can make a session in class , teaching all these aspects, they will enjoy with the
abbreviated vocabulary .This is a very real topic and with a very attractive content for our
students.
viernes, 13 de febrero de 2009
USING SONGS IN ENGLISH CLASS.
Teaching English can become bored if you don´t introduce some different ideas every day. Teachers should try to be innovator in our classes every day.
The idea is just not only grammar but including other aspects such as : phonetics, vocabulary (crosswords, quizzes, word searchers..) , role-plays, and why cannot include a song every week ?, just at the end of the week it is a good idea to break the routine, give them a break and offer the possibility to work with an English song.
First, we can listen to our students preferences ,they even can get the song , and then the teacher prepares the exercises , we can look for the lyrics of any song in this page:
http://www.lyrics.net/ , we choose the author o the title of the song and we get the complete text of the song that we want to work with.
There are lot of possibilities to work with songs:
-Fill in the gaps.
-Match the pictures with the pieces of the song.
-Listen to the song and answer the questions
-Find words or phrases in the song with these meanings...
I have been working some songs with my ESO students, in each song we can work some grammar point. My favourite titles are:
-Spice Girls: if you wanna be my lover. (Conditional clauses)
-Gery Halliwell: It´s raining men! (Present Continuous)
-Aqua : Barbie Girl. (Abilities, Orders)
-George Michael: Last Christmas.(Past Simple tenses)
-Sting. Every breath you take.(Present Simple)
-Grease. You´re the want that I want....( Relative clauses)
Sometimes you can find the song in some textbooks , such as English File, Oxford Exchange...
Other times I download the song from the internet.
The textbook for 2nd year of Bachillerato (Take a note 2.Longman) offers us a song in each lesson:
Unit 1: No particular place to go by Chuck Berry.(Past tenses)
Unit 2:We are the champions by Queen. (Past Particples)
Unit 3: Should I stay or shoud I go? by The Clash.(Conditional Sentences)
.......
Using songs in class we give a break to our stressing students at the end of the term,for example.
So , I advise you to put a song , not only in your life , but in your class.
The idea is just not only grammar but including other aspects such as : phonetics, vocabulary (crosswords, quizzes, word searchers..) , role-plays, and why cannot include a song every week ?, just at the end of the week it is a good idea to break the routine, give them a break and offer the possibility to work with an English song.
First, we can listen to our students preferences ,they even can get the song , and then the teacher prepares the exercises , we can look for the lyrics of any song in this page:
http://www.lyrics.net/ , we choose the author o the title of the song and we get the complete text of the song that we want to work with.
There are lot of possibilities to work with songs:
-Fill in the gaps.
-Match the pictures with the pieces of the song.
-Listen to the song and answer the questions
-Find words or phrases in the song with these meanings...
I have been working some songs with my ESO students, in each song we can work some grammar point. My favourite titles are:
-Spice Girls: if you wanna be my lover. (Conditional clauses)
-Gery Halliwell: It´s raining men! (Present Continuous)
-Aqua : Barbie Girl. (Abilities, Orders)
-George Michael: Last Christmas.(Past Simple tenses)
-Sting. Every breath you take.(Present Simple)
-Grease. You´re the want that I want....( Relative clauses)
Sometimes you can find the song in some textbooks , such as English File, Oxford Exchange...
Other times I download the song from the internet.
The textbook for 2nd year of Bachillerato (Take a note 2.Longman) offers us a song in each lesson:
Unit 1: No particular place to go by Chuck Berry.(Past tenses)
Unit 2:We are the champions by Queen. (Past Particples)
Unit 3: Should I stay or shoud I go? by The Clash.(Conditional Sentences)
.......
Using songs in class we give a break to our stressing students at the end of the term,for example.
So , I advise you to put a song , not only in your life , but in your class.
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