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King Saud University Preparatory Year Deanship Intensive English Program. Self-Learning 2011-2012 Week 4_level 5 & 6. Think!!!. You see some blocks. T he blocks remind you of your childhood. In this action, what is your mind doing?. Remembering . Understanding . Creating . Think!!!.
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King SaudUniversity PreparatoryYearDeanship Intensive English Program Self-Learning 2011-2012 Week 4_level 5 & 6
Think!!! You see some blocks. The blocks remind you of your childhood. In this action, what is your mind doing? Remembering Understanding Creating
Think!!! After the teacher explains a lesson, she asks you some questions about the lesson. In this action, what were you doing in order to answer? applying Analyzing Understanding
Think!!! Your teacher told you a story. You understood it. Now, the teacher asks you to act it out. In this action, what are you doing? Understanding Applying Analyzing
Think!!! You want to buy a mobile phone. You see two nice phones. You can’t decide which one you like more. You start thinking of the good applications and the problems of each one. In this action, what is your mind doing? Remembering Analyzing Creating
Think!!! Your friend just gave a presentation about her project. The teacher asked you to say what was good about the presentation and how it was useful for you? In this case, you need to do what? Understanding Evaluating Applying
Think!!! When the teacher asks you to design an invitation card, what will you be doing? Remembering Creating Analyzing
Bloom's Revised Taxonomy
Levels of thinking Creating Evaluating Analyzing Higher Order of Thinking Applying Understanding Remembering Lower Order of Thinking
More thinking?!! Warmer What is the idea that connects all the initials in this sentence? My Very Educated MotherJust Served Us Nine Pizzas. All initials in this sentence list the planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto We use ‘Acrostics’ to remember words in a list
Activity 1 Do you want to learn more techniques that can enhance your memory? Can you guess the meaning of the following expression? On the ball What about… . Today all my students are on the ball. They all did the work efficiently.
Will it be easy now to remember this idiom? Why? • We remember the context the idiom was in
This is one of the memory enhancement techniques? Do you know what it is called? Association
How did the association technique help you with idioms? Contextualizing • We need to associatedifficult meanings with certain contextsto be easily remembered
Can you think of other ways to better recall and remember the meaning of idioms? Now, are you ready for a challenge?
Activity 2 In pairs, read the idioms in bold. What do they have in common? They all use games expressions In pairs, read the story and guess the meaning of the idioms then Answer the worksheet
The four words in each group have something in common. What are they all connected with? Activity 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
What do you think this technique of association is? Categorization • We need to organize words under their respective groups to be easily remembered in whole or part
Activity 4 • Free Practice/ student-generated activity • T divides ss into 4 groups. • She asks each group to think of a name of a category and choose another group to give the parts of this category.
Why are we studying remembering in self-learning? • It improves our thinking. • It is one of the self-learning tools (Individual Study Technique)
LET’S SEE HOW WELL YOU REMEMBER TODAY’S LESSON… • What are the six thinking levels in Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy that were mentioned at the beginning of this lesson? • What is the name of the thinking level you learned today? • What MEMORY TECHNIQUES will help you remember the new words/idioms you learn in English? • what is the SL tool used in this lesson ?
Assignment (1) (1)Choose one category from following list and write 10 words that belong to it. 1- Health • 2- Education • 3- Astronomy • 4- Technology
Assignment (2) (2) Think of one idiom and contextualize it in a personalized situation (write not less than 50 words)