TEACHERS ROLES

A group of primary English teachers look at various CALL websites and talk about which would be suitable for their students to explore.

At the end of Friday’s class, the teacher says ‘Have a great weekend, guys!’

It’s February and the teacher emails a link from www.youtube.com about Pancake Day to her class of teenagers. The next page of the coursebook includes a pancake recipe which she wants them to make, but doesn’t give much context on this English tradition.

The students write a list of three topics they’d like to be given for journal writing prompts in class. The teacher goes through the topics and makes a shortlist which suits her aims for the class this semester.

The students write emails and the teacher hesitates a few seconds behind each screen pointing to small mistakes and feeding in vocabulary ideas or just saying ‘Great!’

The teacher asks small groups of students to label a map of the world with some of the two-, three- and four-syllable country names blanked out and provided in a separate alphabetical list. She listens quietly close to each group and notes down any word stress problems.

The teacher explains that the word ‘chocolate’ has just two syllables and shows students how to notice this from the phonemic script in their dictionaries.

The teacher notices that some of the new vocabulary taught in class the previous week has been used wrongly in stories.

The teacher selects and rejects coursebook activities to use the time left in the last week of class effectively.

The teacher makes a worksheet adapting a popular song in order to focus on third person ‘s’.