Game of Tones

Good afternoon all,

In further adventures from the land of STRIP I bring you. "You Had Me at Hello" This is a wonderfully quick activity which helps students understand the difference tone makes. With a great number of languages tone is absolutely vital so this concept is usually be very easily transmitted.

I start by asking the Ss what difference tone can make. I then arm them with two words. Hello and Really.  I  make sure they are aware the power these two words can weild and then I let them unleash that power on their partners.

For the first half of the activity I ask students to use one of the situatuions on the powerpoint (paper, boards) and speak to their partner in the tone of voice one would imagine a person in that situation would use. Their partner then has to guess which one they are trying to convey. If they get it wrong and feel their partner has misunderstoon the phrase then they can show them how it should be done.

It always helps to model the first two or three situations just to get students up to speed with the task. Especially those who aren't as quick as your star students.

When the students get to the Really section, I get them to translate or simply share with the class what each phrase means. Then they get 5 minutes to practice with a partner and finally they are called upon at random to do the same action as before, however, this time to the whole class. He, (or she) who guesses correctly get's to choose who speaks next.

The funnier you make the situations the more fun the students will have doing mock, over the top tones of voice.

As always you can find the slide for this within the STRIP presentation just there ------>STRIP materials
in  even more materials.

I hope your students enjoy this task as much as mine.

hasta la proxima.

H

S.T.R.I.P

A massive thanks to all of those who came to my presentation yesterday. I had a really great time doing the presentation.

As I said the materials are just across if you follow the link to 'even more materials' there is a whole bunch of other guff in there as well. Fell free to steal, adapt use and abuse whatever you desire. 

I'll be posting a slightly updated version of yesterday's PowerPoint when I get to work tomorrow with the two new activities I added. 

If anyone wants a handout with a quick reminder of any of the games. Just let me know. 

Twitter business: @EFLuencyfella

Gigantic piles of gratitude to all y'all who fought the temptation of staying in the bar for one more hour and coming along. You guys made it what it was.

Esl love.

H

Just around the corner

With ACEIA just days away I've uploaded all of the content from my talk onto the link to the right (just a few materials.)
The talk has evolved ever so slightly so for all y'all who saw it at TEFL del Sur, there are some new treats and one or two changes and additions.

If you're at the conference this weekend. I assure you it's worth staying until the end. I'll treat you to a spectacular somewhat akin to a live Muse concert. Ok, that might be a bit of a lie, there will be no fireworks aside the metophorical ones flying around the room.