I always make use of Powerpoint slides to assist my teaching. Students are often attracted by the animated pictures in the powerpoint slieds. Actually, it is pretty easy to make a Powerpoint slide. However, at the moment, I am still not very good to make Powerpoint slides with a variety of effect. I still need to learn about it in order to facilitate my teaching.
I think it is a good idea to include some recording in the Powerpoint. My students always claim that they do not know how to pronounce words when they are doing revision at home. I will try to record the target vocabulary and dictation scope for them. They can get access to it through the Intranet. Hopefully, the Powerpoint slides will remind them of the pronounciation of difficult words.
In the Millionaire Game, students will be tested about the past participle and past tense of regular and irregular verbs. Most of my students seldom spend time on memorizing the different forms of verbs. To challlenge students with Millionair Game, it is hoped their participation during class will be enhanced as well as their incentive to memorize the correct forms of verbs.
Try this game to challenge yourself !
sally said,
November 10, 2009 @ 5:59 am
Hi Claire,
I think it’s a nice idea for you to record your own voice to help Ss remember the vocabulary, provided that you have enough time. For me, I would ask my Ss to get quick reference from this website:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/
And I also like the one introduced by Paul as we can hear the same word pronounced by different people (w/ different accents) from around the world:
http://forvo.com/
I hope they can help you and especially your Ss to facilitate self-learning.
sally