Episode 007: The Ball is Pretty - a podcast by Stephanie Axe and Jean Dempsey

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The Minimal Pair: Episode 007

Show Notes: The Minimal Pair
Title: The Ball is Pretty
Episode no: 007
Date: 4/21/14

Topics in Language Learning
Student attendance& making up work
  1. Importance of coming to class, especially in a second-language classroom
  2. Reasons for absences; where do we draw the line?
  3. Attendance policy
  4. Homework that’s due on the day that class is missed
  5. Making up what was missed (including assessments)

[20:18]

Methodology
On the lighter side: fun things we’ve done and would like to do!
  1. Games
    1. Ice-breaker
    2. Mad libs
    3. The Minimal Pair game
    4. Taboo
    5. Simon Says…
    6. “Speed” vocabulary
    7. BINGO
  2. Music
    1. “School House Rocks”
    2. Conditionals& modals, YouTube compilations
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBIawQGe-88
      1. Count& non-count nouns (My Favorite Things)
      2. Conditionals (If I Had a Hammer or Octupus’ Garden)
    2. Vocabulary cloze
  1. Role play/dramatizations
    1. Lower Academic English
    2. Point-of-View
    3. Pronunciation

[38:28]

Adjunct Antics/Culturally speaking…
When worlds collide: varied perspectives in the classroom
  1. Modals: “should/shouldn’t” discussion
  2. “Food for thought”: how sharing food opened a discussion on cultural differences
  3. “Diversity theme” in a diverse classroom
  4. Culturally informed opinions about lecture topics


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