TKT (Glossary 3)

To tell a story or to communicate actions or emotions using only body movements; not using words.

• Show

• Wave

• Mime

• Pick up

An activity which involves learners walking round the classroom talking to other learners to complete a task.

• Mingle

• Paraphrase

• Miming

• Single

The very first language that you learn as a baby, which is usually the language spoken to you by your parents.

• Parents tongue

• Mother language

• Father tongue

• Mother tongue

The speed of the lesson. A teacher can vary it in a lesson by planning different activities in order to keep the learners’ attention.

• Speed

• Tempo

• Pace

• Rate

Feedback given to a learner by another learner in the class; e.g. learners can give each other feedback on things that are good and things that can be corrected in a piece of written work.

• Seed feedback

• Peer feedback

• Teacher feedback

• Student feedback

To say or write something that you have read or heard but using different words.

• Reword

• Narration

• Retelling

• Paraphrase

To learn a language without studying it, just by hearing and/or reading and then using it. This is the way we learn our first language.

• Pick up

• Select

• Match

• Collect