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I got my first teaching job in 1984, working at a large boy's secondary school in El Obeid, Sudan. This experience made it very clear to me that there's a lot more to teaching English than just being able to speak the language!

Braz-tesol Diary

Saturday - July 14th, 2012
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Mark Hancock
Annie McDonald
Blog - hancockmcdonald.com/blog

We're leaving for the Braz-Tesol conference today. The conference timetable is still not published, so we don't yet have any idea what to expect. What we do know is that there are 4 plenaries per day making a total of 12, which must be a record!

Pronunciation Games for Brazil

Speaker: 
Mark Hancock
Ricardo Sili
Event date: 
Tuesday, July 17, 2012 - 09:30
Venue: 
Braz-tesol
Location: 
Rio de Janeiro
- hancockmcdonald.com/talks/speaker/1

In this workshop, we present a syllabus of 8 features of English pronunciation of relevance for Brazlian learners. Each of the 8 points are explained and illustrated with a pronunciation game. You can download the handout and the slide show for the talk below. The full instructions for most of the games can be found in the materials section of this site.

  • Pronunciation

Turn Words

Tuesday - July 10th, 2012
By: 
Mark Hancock
Articles and ideas - hancockmcdonald.com/ideas
Many learners want to pronounce the vowel sound in learn, bird, word, nurse differently, according to the vowel spelling. But in fact, all these words share the same vowel sound. Here's a game designed to raise their awareness of this sound and its spellings.

Pronunciation Journey

Tuesday - July 10th, 2012
By: 
Mark Hancock
Annie McDonald - hancockmcdonald.com/about-us/annie-mcdonald

Brazilian learners often fail to make a clear distinction between pairs of words such as tax-taxi. This is because in their own language, unstressed final syllables are often so reduced that they are almost inaudible, and they transfer this to English.

Dangerous Dictation n.2

Friday - June 22nd, 2012
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Mark Hancock
Pron-Puzzles - hancockmcdonald.com/blog/topic/pron-puzzles
Dangerous Dictations are puzzles which depend on word-boundary confusions. For example, 'Bow Tie' sounds exactly like 'Boat Eye', because you can't be sure whether the /t/ sound is the end of 'Boat' or the start of 'Tie'. This could lead to dictation errors. The puzzle for your students is to identify and explain the error.
  • Pronunciation

Dangerous Dictation n.1

Friday - June 22nd, 2012
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Mark Hancock
Pron-Puzzles - hancockmcdonald.com/blog/topic/pron-puzzles
Dangerous Dictations are puzzles which depend on word-boundary confusions. For example, 'The Great Ape' sounds exactly like 'The Grey Tape', because you can't be sure whether the /t/ sound is the end of 'Great' or the start of 'Tape'. This could lead to dictation errors. The puzzle for your students is to identify and explain the error.
  • Pronunciation

What's New?

Friday - June 22nd, 2012
By: 
Mark Hancock
Annie McDonald
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A pairwork activity in which students and their partners describe their pictures and find the differences. The pictures are so designed as to contextualize and elicit the present perfect tense, such as 'I've failed my exam'.

What Happened?!

Thursday - June 14th, 2012
By: 
Mark Hancock
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Let your class get creative with funny pictures from the internet. This is a story-telling activity based on pictures from the internet. You will need to either print the pictures or project them in class. You may use the example pictures provided here or else find your own.

Rome or Home?

Monday - June 11th, 2012
By: 
Mark Hancock
brazilian pronunciation

This is a pronunciation game for Brazil, focusing on the confusion between the sounds spelt by R and H, so that for example 'rat' sounds like 'hat'.

Silent Stories: using pictures in ELT

Speaker: 
Mark Hancock
Annie McDonald
Event date: 
Tuesday, July 17, 2012 - 13:30
Venue: 
Braz-TESOL, room 803
Location: 
Rio de Janeiro
Extra info: 
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Silent Stories: using pictures in ELT - hancockmcdonald.com/talks/silent-stories-using-pictures-elt

Pictures are like silent stories. Silent because they are non-verbal. Stories, because they are pregnant with content to talk about. For these two reasons alone, they are extremely useful in English language teaching. In this talk, we explain these and more advantages of pictures, as well as demonstrating different activity types for use in the classroom.

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