Monday 20 August 2007

A TEXT IN PIECES

Have you thought about a group with discipline problems? I believe everybody has already had at least one experience in the career. I don't mean the students are bad, but they are talkative and so noisy that is extremely impossible to keep a good development of the planning activities.

I would like to share a planning class to keep them busy, and they also can talk with a partner, but of course, it is all about the subject you intend to work with.

Find a very interesting text, suitable for the group;

make copies enough for the group to work in pairs;

cut the text in some pieces; ex: 6 pieces;

make sure you have a complete mixing piece text for each pair;

they are supposed to read it and order the pieces to get a fully understanding of the text;

prepare some questions to be discussed in pairs and later without the text they can report to the class in a sharing bases.

It is funny, you are going to keep them busy, and they can still talk to their partner and to the class.

Try it and let me know the results. Good luck!

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