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Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 13mins
What does TTT mean?
Test Teach Test
Time Tracking Template
Teacher Talking Time
Theory Transition Trauma
How much TTT do we need to have in our class?
A lot
50%
As little as possible but not 0%
0%
Giving instructions are part of your TTT. So, instructions must be...
Very detailed
Long and understandable
Short and understandable
There should be no instruction. It reduces TTT
How can you reduce TTT in class?
Simplify your language.
Talk only when it's neccessary for your students.
Get more pair-work
Get more frontal work
What gap is it?
Opinion gap
Information gap
What gap is that?
Information gap
Opinion gap
Why are gaps important when teaching speaking?
There's no speaking without gaps
There's no communication without gaps
It's easier for students
It's easier for the teacher
When I say 'create the proper speaking environment', I mean...
give every student a voice recording device
arrange a class so that it's easier for students to talk to each other
allow using L1 when they want to
boost the atmosphere of friendship and support
How can you make your SS speak more English?
Introuduce a L1/L2 switch. E.g. a laminated card
Teach and REVISE classroom language
Ask them to translate everything they say in L1
Praise them for using a lot of English
What shall you do before a listening activity?
Ask them to listen carefully
Help your students anticipate what they are about to hear
Start listening without delay, while the discipline is still good
Pre-teach some hard words or phrases
What challenges are specific to listening?
new challenging vocabulary
complex grammar
speed
irreversibility
What can we do during a listening activity?
Comment on the content without stopping the track
Make pauses and discuss with students what they've heard
Make pauses and repeat or pronounce the most challenging parts
Slow down the track
What can we do after a listening activity?
Ask them questions to check how well they remember the content
Give students some more listening activities
Listen once more after using the script and checking everything
Use a script to check their ideas
If you have several listening activities, how do you sequence them?
From harder to easier
From easier to harder
From general to more specific
From specific to more general
How long should a reading class be?
Short
Long
50% of the lesson time
It depends
What factors does it depend on?
How deep you want to go with the content
How interesting the text it
How many new words there are in the text
What sort of knowledge you want to revise/integrate with this reading lesson
What do you do before you start reading?
Ask them to translate the text
Ask them questions about the text
Use pictures and other cues to teach new words
Provoke students' interest
If you want to ask questions on the content, how do you know which questions to ask?
Find some details and ask questions about them
Student's answers should outline the important twists/features of the text
Use as many different grammar features as possible
Choose the most abstract questions
If there are so many new words in the text, how do you choose the ones to teach?
Teach them all
Teach the most difficult ones
Teach the ones that students will need to complete the tasks
Teach the words that your students will most likely use in every day communication
After the reading activities are done, it's time to...
ask your students to read this text aloud
do grammar
make a project or a speaking activity based on the idea of the text
use dictionaries to translate the text and write out all the new words
How was that?
Hard and useless
Hard and useful
Easy and useful
Easy and useless
