Keith West

Inspired English Teaching (eBook, PDF)

A Practical Guide for Teachers

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

What messages are you sending to your class? 55% of communication occurs through our body language, 38% from the tone, speed and inflection of our voice and a mere 7% from what we're actually saying!

Inspired English Teaching will help you to use your voice, facial expressions and movement to assert your authority in the classroom, make the boring bits that you have to do fun and get great results from your students.

The book also contains 20 ready-to-use lesson plans that will excite, intrigue and entertain your Secondary English class, and a companion website that includes:

· links to useful websites
· PowerPoints to display on the board
· handouts for students
· Cheat Sheets for teachers; and
· extra games and activities to supplement those in the book.

Whether you are a newly qualified teacher or a seasoned professional wanting some new ideas - this book will show you how to inspire the students in your classroom.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441190802
• Artikelnr.: 38301088

Autorenporträt

Keith West has taught English and drama for over 30 years. He was head of English in two secondary comprehensive schools and head of drama in one. Keith is OFSTED and ESTYN trained, and he has written a number of publications for English teachers.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Use your body language
The face
Basic emotions
Posture
Eye movement
Hands
The voice
Chapter 2: Taking charge of your classroom
A question of space
Displays
Seating arrangements
Procedures - make your classroom your own
Teaching styles
Planning teaching and learning in English
Chapter 3: Getting to grips with school issues
Literacy as a whole-school issue
Assessment in English
Reports that count
Use of plenary sessions
Use of technology - the whiteboard as a learning tool
Rewards and sanctions
Chapter 4: Making it all seem like fun
Sentences
Paragraphs
Recognizing an interesting story start
A spelling game
Stimulus
Boy-friendly poems
Making a drama out of verbs, nouns and adjectives
Non-fiction materials that are boy-friendly
Non-fiction material
Draw before you write
A new planet - Silvershine
Persuasion
Writing reviews
Chapter 5: Making the assessment focus work
Tackling the assessment focus
Chapter 6: Mostly drama
Mysteries
Drama as a learning tool
Soliloquies
Other activities for Macbeth
Using hot-seating to reinforce learning
Freeze-framing
Giving witness
Re-enactments
From book to script
From script to book
Role play - somebody else's shoes
Drama ideas bank
Media - they've all watched a film
Use of circle time in English
Chapter 7: Lessons that really work
Tribes
Your product
Traditional version versus modern version
Soaps - for characters
A comprehension to inspire less able students
Using the story as a stimulus for improving English
Ghost stories
Student-friendly news and newspapers
Postcards home
Wordbag
Starter lessons
Chapter 8: For the older students
GCSE English: AQA
Fact and opinion
Looking at audience and purpose
Exam practice
Looking at stylistic techniques
A brief look at the A-level syllabus (AQA)
Chapter 9: Answers
Sentences
Capital letters
Full stops
Sentences ending in full stops, question marks or exclamation marks
Vowels
Empty House
Group
pair work
The sinking of the SS Golden Gate
Foxes
Silvershine
Woman in White
Computer Nerd
Juliet's Lament
Questions on Macbeth
Macbeth's speech
Sinister Monologue
Trapped
Sentences
Jumbled sentences
The Attic
Plurals not apostrophes
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Conclusion
References
Index