I’m just going to throw my two cents worth in here while I’m at it.
When you are teaching, be sure to include the tactile/kinesthetic learners.
You can do this in two ways -
Both ways help the students acquire “muscle memory” which helps
in the acquisition process. (It lowers the affective filter too.)
Auditory learners may benefit from not only hearing and repeating the target vocabulary a few times, but it may help if you can search around
and find a sound bite to go with the image as well. For example,
here is a link to a site that has a boatload of sound bites to choose from.
This link will take you to a page of toothbrushing sounds.
FYI – Soundsnap only gives your 5 free downloads a month. This site is free all the time.
Click here for a link to a website that has royalty free photos.
Now, let’s take it a step further. Why not turn it into a game?
Put up three pictures on the board. Then play the sound bite and
have some fun letting them guess which one it is!
introduction
instructions
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Merriam Webster definition
Oxymorons from A to Z & by category.
Lesson plus the printable activity
Colorful white board flip chart
Cute cartoon
Examples of Oxymorons in Poems & Poetry
Lesson plans
Short article
And now for something completely different…
Do you speak English?
The wonderful people over at ESL Gold have a page that is dedicated to Phrases for Conversation which are broken down into the following levels: Low Beginning, High Beginning, Low Intermediate, High Intermediate & Advanced. What makes this site stand out above the others is that it provides audio. The speakers are native North American speakers and they speak slow enough for the ELL (English Language Learner) to pick up on what they are saying, but not so mind numbingly slow that you want to bang your head against the wall. Also, you can tell the narrators are some what professional because the inflection is in the right place, even if it does sound somewhat forced on some of the examples. This would be a great site for Chinese teachers of English to brush up on their English skills, assign as homework or use as part of a language lab.
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