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Slides from my workshop at ISTEK on Sunday 3rd April in IstanbulTRANSCRIPT
Please make sure you have
• A piece of folded paper
• Your pen or pencil at the ready
ideas for using images and sound in the language classroom
Before words:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/larahsphotography/2795012899/
Who is Mike Harrison?
ESOL teacherBromley College of Further and Higher Education
Why use drawing and sounds?
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Mike Carla Yohimar
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kurros/150160910/
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Why use drawing and sounds?motor çalıştırılıyor
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Mike Carla Yohimar
Do people literally think in English [...] or are our thoughts couched in some [...] language of thought, and merely clothed in words whenever we need to communicate them to another listener?
Pinker (1994)
Mentalese?
Where are you?
• Play music or sound effect and ask students to imagine where they are
• Give them a situation• Let it run
• Music files from website• http://www.pacdv.com/sounds/
• BBC sound FX CDs
Drawing monsters• Take a piece of paper• Fold into four• Mark neck, waist,
wrists and knees• Draw head, pass on• Draw upper body,
pass on• Draw thighs• Draw feet• Unfold
Drawing monsters
Predict a poem1
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3
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6
Predict a poemShow images / Predict content /
Watch and reassess
Musical stories• Divide a piece of
paper into quarters• Number 1-4• Play 4 pieces of music• Draw or write words
for whatever comes into your head
Musical stories
Thank yous
• @carlaraguseo and @Yohimar for agreeing to appear in my imaginary Turkish lesson
• @IsılBoy @springrose12 (Tuba) @ErenNesrin @DaveDodgson for help with Turkish translations
• @burcuakyol and everyone involved at ISTEK for the chance to be here
Useful links and bibliography• Free downloadable sound FX– http://www.pacdv.com/sounds/
• Posts on my blog– http://bit.ly/mikedrawing (monsters)– http://bit.ly/mikepoem (First Day At School)
• Pinker, S (1994/2000) The Language Instinct; Penguin pp47-78
Mike Harrison www.mikejharrison.com / @harrisonmike
Mike Harrison’s Blog (Facebook)
Sentence to pictures and back again
• Write a simple sentence pass it on
• Second student draws a picture that represents the sentence, folds and passes on
• 3rd student guesses the original sentence from the picture