Developing classroom English Bekolo Celestin Objective of this

Developing classroom English Bekolo Celestin

Objective of this presentation • To provide in-service training for state high school teachers with the long term objective of developing their learners’ English to enable them to operate in a global work/study environment.

CL course: Syllabus • • English for Personal Interaction English for Classroom Routines English for Giving Instructions Asking Questions and Eliciting English for Monitoring and Feedback Developing Content Vocabulary Creating a Language rich Environment 3

English for Personal Interaction Objectives: • To help the teachers improve their language Content: • Use of loop input techniques to raise awareness of good language teaching practice. 4

1. English for Personal Interaction

Self introduction Greeting Name Age Where do you live? I live in I am from I come from food Farewell Hello Hi Good morning My name I am ___ is ___ I am ___ Animals School Hobbies Subjects Colors My favorite pet is I teach My Thank favorite _ you is I like I enjoy I love

Asking for Information When ? Time Where ? Place Who ? Person Why ? Reason How ? Manner What ? Object / Idea/ Action

Grammar: Present Tense of the Verb “to be” rammar: Present of Singular Present Plural. Tense Present Tense the Verb “to be”Tense I you he she it am are is we you they are are

Grammar: Present Tense of the Verb “to be” I am a student. You are teachers. You are a teacher. They are friends He is my friend. Today is Saturday. She is a girl. The man is in class today It is cold. My wife is at the grocery store. We are students. The students are in the library

Talk about yourself for a minute non stop … My name is Celestin. My nick name is Sky. I am a teacher. I am 32 years old. I am married. My favorite color is blue. My favorite sport is football. My hobbies are music, reading and traveling.

English for Classroom Routines Objectives: • To increase the teachers’ confidence in using English to manage and run their classes and interact with their students. 14

1. Starting the lesson • • Good morning class Sit down, please. How are you today? Who is absent today? • Take out your books Pens Homework

Sample Lesson Introduction • Good afternoon, everybody. • How are you today? • My name is Mr. Sky. I'm your new (English) teacher. I'll be teaching you English this year. We have 5 chapters to complete. • Let's begin our lesson now. • Is everybody ready to start?

2. Pronunciation and repetition • Repeat after me (Student’s name) Again Say it more slowly Please louder Say Repeat the whole sentence please Read

English for Giving Instructions Starting a Program 1. Put your mouse arrow on the solitaire icon 2. Double click Double Clicking starts the program 3. You should see the solitaire game open (see picture to the right) 18

English for Giving Instructions How to defrag your hard drive • What is Defragmentation? • When you create and delete files and applications on your computer the hard drive will become fragmented. • Data is split into chunks and stored in different areas of the hard disk. To frees up disk space and speeds up your computer

English for Giving Instructions How to defrag your hard drive • First Stop using your computer while you are defragmenting the drive. Stop all programs running including your screen saver. After That Click Start, and point to All Programs, Next point to Accessories then System Tools, and click Disk Defragmenter. Next Click the drive you want to defragment, After that click the Defragment button and Finally wait for the defragmentation tool to finish (this may take a long time).

English for Giving Instructions • First, I get up early at 6 o'clock in the morning. Next, I brush my teeth and wash my face. Then, I put on my clothes and comb my • hair. After that, I eat breakfast. Next I go to work. At work I • have different activities. I also have lunch with my friends at work. After work, I go home. At home, I clean my room and do my laundry. • Later, I eat dinner with my family. After dinner, I watch TV. Finally, I go to bed.

Reading Whole Numbers 4, 658, 089 Millions period Thousands period Ones period Four million, six hundred fifty-eight thousand, eightynine.

Place Value Chart

Large Number Prefixes • For larger or smaller quantities, prefixes are used. • Some examples: Prefix Value Symbol giga One billion G mega One milion M kilo One thousand k deci One tenth d centi One hundredth c milli One thousandth micro One millionth m μ nano One billionth n

Objective - To translate English words and phrases into mathematical symbols and expressions. + _ minus times divide plus subtract multiply quotient add increased by decreased by product diminished by …of. . . sum difference twice ( 2) total less added to subtracted from

DEVELOPING CONTENT VOCABULARY

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Objectives 1. We will learn about teaching vocabulary to our students. 2. Discussion on theoretical framework about teaching vocabulary. 3. Introduce a variety of practical strategies. 4. Strategy-related ideas to teach vocabulary in our content areas. 5. Essential points that will guide the development of vocabulary lessons.

CREATING A LANGUAGE RICH ENVIRONMENT