Billy the Taiwaness

Before our demo, Alice said:” you guys seems like don’t prepare for the lesson today..you are not nervious!”  Ha~ Actually,  both of us are dizzy at that moment becasue of the long- time preparation in the previous  night, so you can say “we’re numb and lifeless” before our show…Back to the topic.  Some suggestions Alice made us reallty helpful for our group. First, we should do a summary of teaching speaking after warm up. then it may help the classmate to understand why we set up the activities in this way. Secondly, we lacked the strategy of “repetition,” reinforing the students’ learning.  Thirdly, as the most important point, the ending should be run by reviewing the lesson we taught.  It would also help the students to remember the key points again. Cheers~                                                                     

This link http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/speak.shtml from the BBC website, it lists the major skills of teaching speaking.  At first, it writes that teachers should know “what students need.” The reason is that students are actually taught, but they have no chance to practice, and are afraid to speak when they meet “real people.” For example, students should learn the difference of formal and informal spoken lang. Later, students should be encouraged to speak and should be given enough time to prepare the words or usage they just learn, increasing the range of language used in the performance in the task.  Finally, most strategies suggested in this website are based on “interaction.” Since speaking is comminucation, so teachers need to create an enviroment with some tasks for students to complete through “speaking,” such as role-play. 

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Six teachers from England visited Jung-yi and Ping-deng primary school on 12th April. While seeing the outstanding acitivities performed by the kids, one of the visiting teachers raised the questions, “How about their subject ( Math, Chinese, Science), can they still perform well in their subject since they have spent most of the time focusing on extracurricular activities?” “The courses before 10:00 am are all Subject course, so the kids still have plenty of time developing their hobits,”replied from the priciple.