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      Submitted by hafize on 15 November, 2009 - 23:02

      Hi from Balıkesir TURKEY.I am attending ETTO (English teacher training.course) for 5 weeks. Our trainer gave the site's name then and advised ıt but I couldnt have time to join but now I see you share wonderful ideas here. We, at course , study on how we can teach a language (English) better. Teaching methods, techniques, ice-breakers such as games, songs etc.ı t is an online course. Have you any idea on VAK activities? Give a sample activity? Thanks a lot

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      Role-play with realia and background music?
      Submitted on 17 November, 2009 - 04:35

      One idea I like is the idea of developing regular role-plays into more life-like ones by having background music or sounds and bringing in real-life objects.

      For example:

      Regular Role-play:  Shopping.  Student A - sales person.  Student  B - customer.  Student A has a list of products, prices, and possible discounts.  Student B has a list of things he/she wants to buy and preferred prices.

      Life-like Role-play:  As above, but instead of a list of products, Student A has a table with, for example, ten real items of clothing (the T brings in some old clothes, 3 T-shirts, 2 sweaters, etc).  Student B has Monopoly/fake money.  A cassette is playing sounds from an outdoor market (people bargaining in the distance, etc).  Whenever B buys something, they exchange goods/money.

      Visual: seeing the products on the table

      Auditory:  the sounds of people bargaining in the distance

      Kinaesthetic:  exchanging the goods/money