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Halloween 6 (Planning A Party)

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What is this?

This is an example slide about planning a halloween party from http://www.slideshare.net/.  It was created and shared by Anna from skype English school. Eight slides contain planning ideas, party tips and so on, which provide a lot of interesting activities and useful information. It can be used in English language learning classroom as a activity material and resource.
Slideshare is a website that allows everyone to share his/her slides, presentations and perspectives. Also, it provides rich resources for everybody to watch, download and share those slides.

Why is the content good for language learning?

• The content in this slide is interesting and creative, which provides rich information and cultural background for learners to learn the language as well as western culture, especially the traditional festival.
• Learners may be motivated to search and learn more relevant language and culture in order to implement a specific activity or step in this slide, in other words, it can increase learners' autonomy.
• The slides in this website is totally free and can be embedded.
• Slideshare contains a lot of authentic learning materials and resources which can be used in classroom.
• It allows learners to upload and share their own slides.

How might you use it in a language teaching context?

• Teacher asks students to work in group and prepare a real Halloween party based on given information and tips in this slide. This activity needs the students to understand the target language itself as well as western culture and to work collaboratively.
• Teahcer can play this slide as a demonstration of a task which asks students to design a party or a small gathering in group.  Then, teacher is responsable for explaining the language difficulties in the slide and giving specific instruction of the task.
• Students can select any topic they are interested in (or the topic introduced in class) and create their own slides and share it with teachers and peers.

 Limitation

• This website may not be accessed in China.
• Instructions in some slides are too complicated to understand.
• Teacher need to do some changes in order to make the material suitable for a specific class and teaching context.

we created a webquest

http://questgarden.com/118/31/1/110204043800/



What is this?

This is a webquest designed by my classmate and me. We logged in Questgarden as a member of University of Warwick on ICT class and creat our own webquest. This is the first time we creat a webquest. We  are not so good at creating webquest as those experienced English teachers, but it is worth a try, we enjoyed it.

Why is the content good for language learning?

• The topic of the webquest is interesting and learners can choose any cartoon characters they like.
• The task is motivating in terms of  improving learners' speaking and listening abilities.
• Learners will have a good opportunity to develop their negociation and communication skills during the process of preparing the task.
• The instruction and process of the task is clear and well-arranged which enables learners to do the task easily both on class and after class.
• The webquest contains a lot of useful online resourses and other relevant webquests. Learners can refer to the website and links.

• Not only will learners develop their language skills, but also increase their creativity and imagination.

Limitation

How might you use it in a language teaching context?

• Teacher highlights the key points of the task in case that students miss the important information.
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• Teacher asks students to follow the process to do the task.
• Step one and two can be done after class. And step 3 should be shown on class.
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• Teacher will evaluate each group's performance and give feedback individually.

• Not suitable for young learners.
• Limited in costumes and properties.