Speaking blog posts

To articulate or not to articulate, that is the question

Friday - February 17th, 2017
Posted by: 
Mark Hancock
Blog - hancockmcdonald.com/blog

In speaking styles, there is a continuum between mumbling and rolling your ‘r’s –. What I mean by mumbling here is speaking with as little mouth movement as possible in order to minimize effort on the part of the speaker.

  • Pronunciation
  • Speaking

Bringing the corpus back to life? Reflections on McCarthy on spoken grammar

Monday - October 6th, 2014
Posted by: 
Mark Hancock
Event date: 
Saturday, October 4, 2014 - 11:30
Conference Reports - hancockmcdonald.com/blog/topic/conference-reports-0

Mike McCarthy gave the opening plenary at English UK Academic (North) conference last Saturday (Oct 4 2014), revisiting the topic of the grammar of spoken English. Spoken language, he pointed out, is in no way an imperfect, poorly realized version of the written form.

  • Speaking

Stephanie Williams on adverts to stimulate speaking

Tuesday - March 12th, 2013
Posted by: 
Mark Hancock
- hancockmcdonald.com/blog.xml/10

Stephanie began by pointing out why video adverts are a fabulous resource in the ELT classroom: they're short; adaptable to different levels; authentic; relevant to most student's worlds; offer visual support; context rooted and catchy and motivating by design. A compelling list of attributes.

  • Speaking

David Bradshaw on getting them speaking

Monday - March 11th, 2013
Posted by: 
Mark Hancock
- hancockmcdonald.com/blog.xml/10

David Bradshaw explained how speaking is a very difficult skill to promote in secondary school classrooms, and how he used to dread it. He then went on to demonstrate a series of activities which he has found to work in that context, really motivating the students to want to talk, and incidentally providing excellent preparation for Cambridge exams.

  • Speaking

Debbie West on presentation skills

Monday - March 11th, 2013
Posted by: 
Mark Hancock
- hancockmcdonald.com/blog.xml/10

Gillian Evans opened the session with a warm-up exercise of body movements to refresh us at the end of a long day.

  • Speaking
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