Productive+skills

Productive Skills
> || * Explaining how to do something e.g. play an online Flash game to a partner to apologise >> to compare >> to describe >> to explain >> to express opinion >> to justify opinion to persuade >> to recommend >> to suggest ||  ||
 * **A list of exercises we use in class to develop productive skills (speaking and writing)** || **How the Web could be used to support these skills** ||
 * * Pronunciation exercises || * There are some good pronunciation tools on the Web - for example Pron Pal (http://www.britishcouncil.org/parents- downloads-pron-pal.htm)
 * This pronunciation chart is also useful - @http://www.britishcouncil.org/parents-help-pronunciation-chart.htm
 * Any audio file is useful as it invariably brings different accents into the classroom
 * Chants are really useful as they are based on repetition, or reciting aloud
 * Listening to people with different accents, identifying where they come from (upper level). http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/ielts-interview-skills
 * American/Australian and British English variants
 * * Any functional speaking activity, e.g.
 * summarising content
 * discussion (agree/disagree/express a viewpoint)
 * presenting information
 * describing (a place, a person, an item, a process, etc.)
 * comparing and contrasting
 * narrating ( a story, a sequence of events, etc.)
 * interview
 * debates
 * || * Providing a summary of a **YouTube**[|?] video
 * See an extract of a film without sound. While seeing take a list of notes. then speak
 * Listening to the news, authentic material on the topic as the startpoint for discussion
 * Video conference with partner schools on-line
 * making a video or a presentation with recorded speeches and post it to own blog or sites like U-tube
 * preparing the presentation, showing it on-line with comments
 * * Writing skills
 * writing article s
 * essey s
 * report s
 * reviews
 * short stories
 * letter s
 * e-mails
 * post cards || * Writing questions (for another group or partner) based on text e.g. BBC news
 * Writing messages
 * write a feedback on your lesson or an activity
 * comments on-line to videos, pictures, etc
 * filling-in the questionaries, applications, etc
 * chat rooms
 * writing a discursive essay on having seen a thought-provoking video or having heard somebody giving an account on a controversial issue
 * writing for communication - student blogging, e-mailing, etc. ||
 * * Writing for fluency
 * dictations (running, mutual, gap, etc.)
 * wordgames
 * chainstories
 * descriptions based on evidence
 * instructions
 * guided writing activities
 * dictations (running, mutual, gap, etc.)
 * wordgames
 * chainstories
 * descriptions based on evidence
 * instructions
 * guided writing activities
 * Write a chain story: each student writes 1 or 2 sentences only and then emails to another person. ||
 * * Functional writing
 * writing to advise