I demonstrated this activity a couple of weeks ago at TESOL-Spain in Lleida. It’s very similar to a standard picture dictation.
During a standard picture dictation, the teacher describes an image to the students who then attempt to draw it based on the teacher’s description. During the description, the teacher will probably be looking at the […]

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Great conference as always. Thanks to TESOL-Spain for the invite and to NILE for the sponsor. And thanks to eeryone who came to my talks. Here are the links that I promised:
Teacher Talk: Quality not quantity
If you came to this talk, you might remember (or you might not!) that we didn’t get all the way […]

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Had a fun weekend in Zagreb last weekend. As promised, here are the links to the activities we looked at together:
Grammar Drawings

Mexican doodles
Passive flashcards (full lesson plan to onto teflclips.com soon). Handout here: passive-noun-phrases.pdf

Grammar to draw: Noun phrases; Sentences or structures from the course book (third conditionals, for example); Question forms; Prepositional phrases; etc
Ways […]

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