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Exercising the brain of needy students with recycled and well-known ideas. By Mirela C. C. Ramacciotti Braz Tesol SIGs Get Together October, 20, 2007. Who are the needy students?. PERSONALIZE Make it your own. Recycling ideas. Make use of PHYSICAL ACTIVITY. RUN FOR YOUR ANSWER.
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Exercising the brain of needy students with recycled and well-known ideas By Mirela C. C. Ramacciotti Braz Tesol SIGs Get Together October, 20, 2007
PERSONALIZEMake it your own Recycling ideas
Make use of PHYSICAL ACTIVITY RUN FOR YOUR ANSWER
The brain is a pattern-seeker CATEGORIES GAME
We store information by similarity but retrieve it by difference MAGIC WORDS • Portuguese X English • With Gaps
Help the brain learn best by CHANGING LOCATIONS FOUR CORNERS
Make it challenging QUESTION PYRAMID
SPELLING BEE Using time Using colors Get the brain’s attention
JUMBLE Words Chunks A:__ __ __ __ __? B:__,_ __ __ __ __. A: __ __? B:__ __ __ __ __. Dialogue (example) Are/you/ready/to/order? Yes/I’d/like/a steak/and/ a coke. Anything/else? An apple/ pie/ for/ dessert/ please. Help the brain learn by using visual aids
Use learner-imposed deadlines and peer pressure RELAY RACE With Questions
Can I ....... You? What’s your .....number? What’s.......address? Where are you........? Example of Relay Race
The brain is a pattern-seeker COMBINE YOUR QUESTION
Make it meaningful, relate or create SPIDERGRAM
Relate • OUTWARDS
Make it emotional, energetic and make GOOD use of peer pressure • TIC TAC TOE
Make sentences using these most frequent words (from the Cambridge International Corpus)
Attention for Learning is influenced by Choice & Relevance BINGO
Appeal to visual as well as auditory and kinesthetic activities RAP IT Example: How’s the weather & The Alphabet Song
A Kiss • Keep • It • Simple • Sweetheart!
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