The Minimal Pair: Episode 007
Show Notes: The Minimal Pair
Title: The Ball is Pretty
Episode no: 007
Date: 4/21/14
Topics in Language Learning
Student attendance & making up work
Importance of coming to class,
especially in a second-language classroom
Reasons for absences; where do we
draw the line?
Attendance policy
Homework that’s due on the day
that class is missed
Making up what was missed
(including assessments)
[20:18]
Methodology
On the lighter side: fun things we’ve
done and would like to do!
Games
Ice-breaker
Mad libs
The Minimal Pair game
Taboo
Simon Says…
“Speed” vocabulary
BINGO
Music
“School House Rocks”
Conditionals & modals,
YouTube compilations
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBIawQGe-88
Azar song lessons:
http://www.azargrammar.com/materials/uueg/UUEG_SongLessons.html
Count & non-count nouns (My
Favorite Things)
Conditionals (If I Had a Hammer
or Octupus’ Garden)
Vocabulary cloze
Role play/dramatizations
Lower Academic English
Point-of-View
Pronunciation
[38:28]
Adjunct Antics/Culturally speaking…
When worlds collide: varied
perspectives in the classroom
Modals: “should/shouldn’t”
discussion
“Food for thought”: how
sharing food opened a discussion on cultural differences
“Diversity theme” in a diverse
classroom
Culturally informed opinions about
lecture topics
Keep it minimal!