👩‍🏫Teaching Speaking 🗣

Hi, welcome back to my blog! 👻

Last time we talked about "Writing", so now it is the turn of "Speaking". To be more precise, today's topic is "Teaching Speaking" 🗣. As you already know, speaking is essential in our day-to-day life, and in the case of students with teachers it is a very important skill for the learning system, besides, like any other skill, it can also be polished. 💁

In all the sessions with Teacher Orlando, we always talk and participate as much as possible either in sharing opinions about the topic, saying what we know before developing a specific topic, or among ourselves as classmates when we do an activity, the practice is constant and our skill keeps developing more and more. It also helps teachers to get to know the students better and adapt to their needs, and try to make the teaching method suitable for everyone to be able to perform different speaking activities. 

There are several activities for speaking, some of them are singing songs, preferably their favorites, role-plays which focus on the interaction between students and the characters they play, there is also simulation that is done for students to practice solving a particular situation, and finally, real play where situations already experienced are put into practice. 

Also, we learned about Jazz Chants💫 by Carolyn Graham, a teacher at NYU and a jazz singer. Jazz Chants serve as a teaching tool where they involve rhythmic body movements and singing, it helps students practice their pronunciation, work on accentuation and reinforce it. In class, we did groups to create a short Jazz chant, with my group we did a simple one that I don't remember how it was😅, but it was to mention various animals found on a farm.

And that was all for this entry, I hope you liked it and see you in the next one. Bye-bye🙌💜