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Whom Can We Trust?

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AIM: Vocabulary for character traits

LEVEL: Intermediate and above

TIME: 45 minutes

MATERIALS:
Photos of people (emphasis on facial features/ langauge), Dictionaries

PREPARATION:
Photo Sources: Photos may be cut from old magazines or found on the internet. Search Google.com. Type in ‘faces’ and click on images. You will find many to choose from. If a coursebook is used, leaf through it and note down the page numbers with some photos to refer to. Try to find a good range of photos to work with depicting varying facial expressions. Using celebrities will help build interest, but try to use non-celebrities, as well.

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Using Instrumental Music For Affect In Creative Writing

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AIMS:
– To foster creative writing
– To help student brainstorm and write elements of plot, character profiles, settings, mood, etc.
– To brainstorm adjectives or other word forms

LEVEL: Elementary, Intermediate, Advanced

TIME: At least 20 minutes (depending on the amount of music played)

MATERIALS: Recorded pieces of music in a variety of musical genres

Using music to support language learning has many advantages, least of all that it supports those students who are more musical in terms of their learning style, and most of all because it makes learning fun and breaks up the monotony of regular day to day tasks.

There are many ways to use instrumental music to help students write creatively or to brainstorm vocabulary, especially adjectives and adverbs, and to help establish context. One of the easiest ways is to use pieces of instrumental music of different genres.

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