In this session, participants discussed practical ways to encourage students to interact with the topics they're learning and their classmates.
The session begins with a discussion of the three principles of teaching and the rest of the session discusses and shows how these principles are implemented using one page from the Oxford American English File 2 .
The following list includes some of the practical tips shared by the presenter:
1) Lead-in questions: These can be integrated using the whiteboard function. Sample questions related to the page above: do you have pets? what type of pets?
2) Vocabulary practice activities: in additional to the standard matching activities, students can practice the language using the chat box with questions such as: what is your favorite animal? what is your least favorite animal? what is the least favorite animal of the class? which animal is the smallest? the biggest?. This activity can be turned into what the presenter calls "30 teachers and 1 student" in which students, either orally or using the chat box, ask the teacher questions.
3) Coffee Drinking Activities (CDA): these are activities which engage students in doing the work during the lesson. For example, one student asks the questions using their microphone and the rest of the class answer on the chat box. Students take turns to ask questions.
4) Listening activities: pre-teach vocabulary before the activity. In addition, use the listening script, display it on the screen and ask students to justify their answer by using the annotate function to highlight the justification.
5) Student Operated Automatic Pronunciation System (SOAPS): While students look at the script, they find a word within the script which they are not sure about. Then they type that into the chat box. The instructor says that word out loud and clearly.
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