Unit 6 FInal task
Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2018 9:39 am
We use Succeed in English at our school and I like it very much. There are a lot of activities in the syllabus, we can choose according to the level of the student and there are plenty of communicative activities as well. I had a look at the content page and the speaking activities are varied and offer a lot of possibilities to practice free speaking once the activity the book suggests has finished. It is important they do those first. Some of the topics are - Describe first impressions, talk about the weekend, express opinions and preferences, speculate about the future, express regret, describe and discuss photos and talk about memories. I guess that there are not many suggestions for free speaking activities but teaching methods don’t often do that, right? I mean, they give cues and ideas on how to organize the activities and they tend to be well guided. But then the free activity can be generated by both the teacher and the students…. the students prepare new speaking activities using expressions and useful language the section has offered. Most of the activities are based on pair work but we have to keep in mind that we are dealing with 30 students in the class…bigger groups would make the activity difficult to follow. It is difficult when doing pair work already! I sometimes allow students with a good level to pair together, sometimes I have to pair kids with different levels so that one helps the other.