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Such an approach is especially appropriate if teaching beginners, and with mixed nationality classes, where translation is not an option. It is also a technique that has been reclaimed by practitioners of Total Physical Response (TPR), a method that promotes initial immersion in a high quantity of comprehensible input. In making use of the immediate environment of the classroom, and of things that can be brought into the classroom, the intention is to replicate the experience of learning one's mother tongue. A TPR lesson typically involves the teacher demonstrating actions, using real objects, and then getting the learners to perform the same or similar actions in response to commands. Typical classroom commands might be: Point to the apple. Put the banana next to the apple. Give the apple to Natasha. Offer the banana to Maxim. etc. (Plastic fruit and vegetables are ideal for this kind of activity.) Pictures / illustrations Visual aids take many forms: flashcards (published and home-made), wall charts, transparencies projected on to the board or wall using the overhead projector, and board- drawings. Many teachers collect their own sets of flashcards from magazines, calendars, etc. Especially useful are pictures of items belonging to the following sets: food and drink, clothing, house interiors and furniture, landscapes / exteriors, forms of transport plus a wide selection of pictures of people, sub-divided into sets such as jobs, nationalities, sports, 15 activities and appearance (tall, strong, sad, healthy, old, etc). Not only can such pictures be used to present new vocabulary items, but they can be used to practise them. The use of pictures or objects as prompts for vocabulary teaching can be enhanced if some basic principles of memory are taken into account, including the principle of distributed practice .(it is important to keep reviewing the previously introduced items, preferably in a varying order) Our ability to produce mental images has led to a memory technique known as the key word Download 0.75 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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