Dear All
This is the space in our ELT e-Reading Group to share ideas related to using and discussing literature and reading in English language teaching.
Please, post here your classroom ideas, activities, your experience with literature projects and whatever more comes to your mind related to this area of interest.
You may also want to post links to related sites you feel other teachers would be interested in taking a look at.
This is a space for chatting & sharing, and I hope you drop a line here from time to time to discuss your literature/classroom ideas and experiences, or perhaps ask your burning questions :)
Please, do not forget to click on the 'Notify me when new comments are posted' box at the bottom of your post box so that you will know when other people reply to you.
Cheers - Chris
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Dear All
Just to let you know that our Reading Group here at Teaching English is being quite popular :)
This is the approximate number of visits we have had since we opened this space: 1,000 hits on the Welcome thread, 800 on the Poets' Corner, 700 on 'Ullswater' and 300 on 'the Nightingale and the Rose'.
Thanks a lot for your visit and please, do keep coming!!
Cheers - Chris
Thanks a lot. This is a useful space for students and teachers, readers and writers, and most of all for sharing the joy of reading and sharing stories and poems with others. or, I can not forget the interesting interaction with teachers around the world, that´s the best of all experiences. I´ve had the pleasure of reading and accessing stories and poems . Thanks for your facilitation and coordination, Chris, that keeps the group meeting and discussing about reading habits. It happens in real time.
Tanguene
Hi All
Please, let me suggest you take a look at Georgina Hudson's blog here at Teaching English where she discusses the use of minifiction or mini-shoirt stories. You may find it interesting.
Just check the link below
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/blogs/georginahudson/minifiction-or-sh...
Cheers - chris
Dear All
We are now selecting new short stories and poems for the months to come and it would be great to have your suggestions in this forum. Please, let us know what texts you would like to read and discuss together here in the Reading Group. As long as they are available online, we will be more than happy to consider your recommendations.
Cheers - Chris
Thank you Chris! I love all your tips! Georgina
Thank you Georgina for bringing this up in your blog :)
And here is another Literature link on Teaching English that you may want to take a look at and engage in the discussion. The topic is Children's literature. Check it out
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/top-stories/childrens-literature-elt
Cheers - Chris
As some of you may know, the ELT e-Reading Group for English Language Teachers has just moved into Teaching English, but we have been online since August 2007. During all this period, the Poets'Corner has been one of our most active forums and group members have shared there a number of poems they wrote themselves.
We are now bringing these poems to light in a collection to be published here on our Group at TE. The idea is to share our members' poetic creations and perhaps inspire other teachers to also try their pens on poetry writing.
The collection is now being edited and I hope it will be available early next year.
I hope you consider this good end-of-the-year news :)
Cheers - Chris
Thanks a lot, Chris, for this exciting news. We are more than grateful to you for your high commitment . We would also like to address a very thankful word to the British Council and BBC Teaching English website for this motivating initiative.
It is a very special gift not only for those who have been collaborating but also for teachers who might join in for discussions on poems. We will certainly keep learning from that collection as well as enjoying the beauty of poetry.
Looking forward to tasting the whole content.
Cheers,
Maria
Dear Chris and All,
Thanks for promoting the group and for turning our writing visible in this space. Publishing adds motivation to the group and add value to our attempts at scribbling words and looking for meanings. Sure one day you’ll make us poets or writers because the progress we’re making changes our inner selves and you activism project the changes outwards every time.
Tanguene
Dear All
Here is a bit of a lesson plan I created to explore literature and painting in English language teaching. The theme is Winter and I hope you find it interesting and useful.
Task 1. Individually, Ss make a list of words they associate with Winter. You may give some suggestions: weather words, clothes, food, drinks, activities, feelings, etc. In pairs, Ss compare their lists and tell their partners why they have included those specific words.
Task 2. Ask students if the word 'snow' is in one of their lists. Tell them that in many countries there is snow in the winter and that the landscape changes completely. Show them Monet's 'Snow Scene at Argentuil'. Use the link below to get the image and information about the painting.
Snow Scene at Argentuil. Claude Monet
Tell Ss that this is a street scene and put the following questions on the board. Tell them there there is no right answer and that they have to use their imagination to answer them. Ss discuss the questions and take notes.
Where is this street? In what kind of town or city?
What place can people go in this town when it is cold and snowing?
Who are these people in the painting?
What are they going to do at this time of the day? Where are they going?
How are they feeling in this cold snowy afternnon?
Task 3. In pairs or small groups, Ss use their notes to create a short story (50-100 words) to match the painting. Ss share their stories with the group, either displaying on the wall, emailing them to others or posting to the Class wiki or blog.
I hope you enjoy it. I'll post the second part of the lesson soon :)
Cheers - Chris