Training session for Chinese language teachers sponsored by Macmillan Education (publishers of Discover China) and the Confucius Institute at Manchester University.

1. Let’s Talk
Communicate in
Chinese
Dede Wilson

2. Having fun is a
serious business
Taking it off the page

3. Clear aims
Learner styles and
expectations

4. Warmers, fillers
& coolers
For the in-between moments

5. Stand up if…..
Opportunity to listen and respond
Reminding/revising of language learnt
Motivating, confidence building start
Punctuality motivator

6. Warmers, fillers & coolers
Shaking hands

7. Student question: Fun,
but
why?
Fun,
but
why?
Warmers, fillers & coolers

8. Aims
What? How? Why?
Assumptions
What students know
What they need to know
Warmers, fillers & coolers

9. Door window
Warmers, fillers & coolers

10. Ping pong numbers
Warmers, fillers & coolers

11. Warmers, fillers & coolers

12. Using coursebooks
Teachers need them
Students need them
Why?

13. Doctors and Nurses
Receptive skills

15. Sports Ways to describe
Facilitate – personalize
Teaching vocabulary
Use student knowledge
Brainstorm

16. Set active listening tasks
Recognition tasks: true false; order number;
sequence; tick; wrong word
Prediction tasks – use student life knowledge
of context

17. Feedback
Check in pairs first
Listen/read again, elicit answers
Use questions
Students ask and answer
Elicit reasons

18. Types of Listening
Listening to each other

19. Listening to each other
Name Sport Reason

20. Memory v Listening
Listening in a foreign language
 Difficult to concentrate on every word
 Anxious
 Nervous and worried
 Trying to guess what’s coming next
 Want to ask questions and take notes when
you miss something

21. Listening problems
1. Unfamiliar, strange- resistance
2. Noise
3. Too fast and too many words
4. Recognition – vocabulary – pronunciation

22. Listening solutions
 Pre-teach key vocabulary/ pronunciation
 Facilitate – simplify
 Make it visual
 Make it active
 Make it familiar

23. dedewilsonuk@yahoo.co.uk
www.mydiscoverchina.com
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