Teaching Tip 2: Reading Aloud How: - Pick a student and ask him/her to read the instructions for
Activity 1/2/3 or whatever. "Marco, please read the instructions for Activity 2
for us".
- Pick a different student each time.
Why: - It saves you doing it.
- You can check pronunciation.
- The other students may well understand the instructions
better when read by another student.
- The students are more likely to listen to another student
than to you.
- If they all read the instructions silently they will all
finish at different times. If they listen to someone reading the instructions
out loud they all finish at the same time.
Extra Info: Getting students to read aloud used to be unpopular because the
powers that be said that it was unrealistic as we never do it in real life -
you read books silently, don’t you? Things have changed since then as it
has since been argued that we do do it, e.g. "hey, listen to this, it says in
the paper here that Prince Charles is already, secretly, married to Camilla!
Listen - 'Prince Charles allegedly married Camilla Parker Bowles in a secret
ceremony at Windsor Castle yesterday. The ceremony was attended only by the
prince’s closest family and friends. A palace spokesman denied the rumour,
saying that...'" © Liz Regan 2003 |
