Collins Teaching Techniques for Communicative English电子书

Contents

Acknowledgements

… for the First Edition (1979)

… for the Second and Third Editions (2011, 2013)

About the Author

Preface to the Second Edition (2011)

Preface to the First Edition (1979)

Chapter 1 Communication

1.1 Surprises

1.2 Communication

1.3 Communicative competence

1.4 Teaching communicative competence

1.5 Accuracy versus fluency

Chapter 2 Limbering up

2.1 Getting in the mood

2.2 Possible problems

2.3 Dealing with mistakes

2.4 ‘Getting to know you’ games

1 Adding on names

2 Throw and name

3 Back to back

4 Find out and report back

5 Half and half

6 Find your identical twin

7 Just the job

8 Untie the knot

9 Circle of trust

10 Three make a tree!

2.5 Activities involving gesture and mime

1 Interpreting gestures

2 Mime a message

3 What’s my job?

4 Pass the parcel

5 Guess what the guest means!

6 Mime a story

7 Charades

8 Auditions

9 Build up a character

10 Listen and act it out

2.6 Activities involving intonation and expression

1 React to the news

2 React and make a gesture

3 Mood cards

4 Three or four line dialogues

2.7 What would you say?

Using a Verbal Stimulus

1 Practising set responses

2 Practising specific structures

3 Practising specific functions

4 Practising making an appropriate response

Using a Visual Stimulus

Chapter 3 From script to spontaneity

3.1 Scripted and partially scripted dialogues

1 Using a sketch

Anything to declare?

2 Using a text in reported speech

3 Half-dialogues

3.2 Questionnaires

1 Simple fact-finding questionnaires

2 Multiple-choice questionnaires

3 Checklists

4 Using role-cards with questionnaires

3.3 Cue cards

1 Listen and choose

2 Choose an attitude

3 Picture cue cards

4 Functional cue cards

Conversation 1

Conversation 2

Conversation 3

Chapter 4 Playing a part

4.1 Newspaper articles

Article 1

Simple activity

Article 2

Activity 1

Activity 2

4.2 Cartoons

Cartoon 1

Cartoon 2

Cartoon 3

4.3 Miscellaneous Materials

Maps

Activity 1: Planning a trip

Activity 2: Getting around by tube

Activity 3: Buying a tube ticket

Menus

Building up a role-play

Stage 1

Stage 2

Stage 3

Stage 4

Stage 5

Stage 6

House Plans

4.4 Role cards

Role-play 1: The New Suit

Role-play 2: Diamonds in the Briefcase

Role-play 3: Fully booked!

Role-play 4: Where to go?

Role-play 5: Renting a room

Role-play 6: Making a sale

Role-play 7: Making a sale

Role-play 8: Pop Festivals

Role-play 9: Anniversary dinner

Role-play 10: A dream house?

Conclusion

Notes

Appendices

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