King Saud University Preparatory Year Deanship Intensive English Program

King SaudUniversity PreparatoryYearDeanship Intensive English Program Self-Learning Program 2011-2012 Week 4_ Levels 1-4

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

Look at the picture and discuss the following: 1- What can you see? 2- What words might come to your mind when you see this picture?

Now, do you think the picture helped you to remember some words ? Association This is called:

Activity 1 2 1 • Let’s see how association works with your memory: • Divide the class into 4 groups. • Ask each group to choosea number from 1-4 • In groups, choose a leader and a time keeper. • Start recalling and remembering the words of the things you can see in the picture( at least 5 words). 4 3

Association Technique (1) We connect words with relevant pictures to remember them easily. (Association through Visualization)

Let’s learn more memory techniques Activity 2 Computers orange apple classroom fruit speaker rabbit library animals horse screen school

Association Technique (2) We organize all the words we learn under their categories so we can remember them in groups or in parts. (Association through Categorization)

Activity 4 Now lets have some fun: (cut-outs) • Divide the class into two teams. One for “the whole group” ss and another for “the parts.” • Choose 4 students to be the whole group students while the rest of ss are the parts. • Each “part” student picks 1 or 2 words from the shuffled cards. • Now, find the whole of which you are part. Meet the other parts and make a group.

Remembering This Is the first level of thinking in Bloom’s Revised Taxonomywhere the learner is able to recall, restate and remember learned information.

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 you learn in each lesson? • what is the SL tool used in this lesson ?

Summary:

Week 4 Homework - Choose 2 different words from the following list and applythe two memory enhancement techniques you studied today to show how you can remember them:1-sunflower2- healthy3-notebook4-fountain5-pyramid6-Science See the given example in the next slide

Technique (1):Association by visualization: the word ‘fun’ fun Technique (2):Association by categorization: the word ‘hospital’ ambulance doctor medicine laboratory hospital patient appointment operation nurse

How will your homework be assessed?

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