TELT

Shona Whyte:
Nice account of an EFL lesson using authentic online ads for flatmates by Genevieve White, who teaches adult learners in Lerwick and keeps the blog Notes from a Shetland ESOL classroom.

This unit grew out of a vocabulary guessing game based on a class vocabulary box filled with small cards with learner drawings of vocabulary words they had learned.

 

The class of nine 8-10 year-old French EFL learners rehearsed these structures with reference to a large set of previously learned animal vocabulary.

- It can (fly, swim, run)

- It's got (four legs, horns, wings)

- It's (small, dangerous, slow)

- It's a (bird/dolphin/cow).

 

In the final sessions, the learners made powerpoint presentations with audio which they shared online to create a guessing game for the others.