UNIT 16 PRESENTATION TECHNIQUES AND INTRODUCTORY ACTIVITIES

PRESENTATION TECHNIQUES AND INTRODUCTORY ACTIVITIES

When teachers are planning a class they need to be aware of two important facts. First, how he/she is going to introduce the topic to students which are called introductory activities. They are useful when teachers want to activate students’ knowledge of the topic. In addition, teachers could use three types of introductory activities; lead in which is used to introduce the content of the lesson in order to make learners link the topic with the lesson. An example of lead in is brainstorming. Warmers are used to make students feel comfortable or just to wake them up. An example is pair work activity. Indeed, Icebreakers are used to make the class know each other. An example of this activity is mingling survey.

Second, how a teacher is going to present the topic. It is here when teachers use presentation techniques. One of the presentation technique used by teachers is PPP; Presentation, Practice and Production. Furthermore, this technique has plenty of features that teachers need to take into consideration before applying it. The language is taught with a situational presentation in which teachers make sure that learners understand by practicing. All the activities given by the teacher are restricted practice. Moreover, to check if learners understand the grammatical structures teachers will use concept questions. The other presentation technique is Task- Based Learning. In this technique teachers begin the lesson contextualizing the topic and later give students a task to complete. What´s more, teachers will discuss any problem learners had with the task. As a final point, teachers give another task to check if they correct mistakes.

For some teachers PPP is a controlled technique that would not help students to learn the language properly which is not correct because when teachers use PPP technique they are aware if their learners understand the language by providing a real situational presentation. Therefore, Individual, substitution and choral drills are controlled tasks which are going to be part of the practice stage. To conclude, learners will have a production stage where teachers can control if students have learned the lesson. 

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