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Grammar activity
A grammar activity to prepare for the end of the year exam or to review  grammar points in the beginning of the year or to raise awareness of what has already been learnt and where problems still lie. This activity is very effective because each question focuses on one important, specific grammar area.

Total Physical Response is a language teaching method which is based on the assumption that the coordination of speech and action will boost language learning. It was developed by  James Asher in the 70s He drew from a variety of areas,  including psychology, learning theory and humanistic pedagogy.

The origin of Suggestopedia
Suggestopedia is a language teaching method developed by the Bulgarian psychologist, Georgi Lozanov (see picture on the right.) Like Community Language Learning and the Silent Way Method, Suggestopedia is an innovative method that promises great effective language learning results. Lozanov claimed that by using this method one can teach languages approximately three to five times as quickly as conventional methods.

Chain game!
Objective:

Revising vocabulary
Spelling

Find the mystery person!
Objectives:

describing
vocabulary:

adjectives (black, white, tall, long…)

clothes

The Silent Way
The Chomskyan criticism of the theories upon which the audiolingual method was founded led to an interest in  not only the affective factors but also on the cognitive factors.  While Community Language Learning, drawing from Carl Roger’s philosophy, focused on the importance of the affect, new methods were developed in the 70s to highlight the cognitive domain in language learning. The Silent Way is one of these innovative methods. In Fact, Caleb Gattegno, the founder of the Silent Way,devoted his thinking to the importance of problem solving approach …