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• Step 1: breaking the ‘screen’
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• Key concepts of online teaching
• The flipped classroom
• TBL
• Using visuals
TASKS IN ONLINE TEACHING

1. Learning happens when students do tasks.

2. Maximise time spent on doing tasks and minimize
dead time.
3. There should be an element of engagement and
fun in your sequence of tasks.
TASKS IN ONLINE TEACHING: FUN AND ENGAGING

• Interactive
• Interesting
• Personalised
• Varied
• Kinaesthetic
• Motivating
WHICH ASPECTS OF ONLINE TEACHING DO
YOU FIND CHALLENGING?

• Type in your answer – you can use maximum 5 words!

GUIDELINES FOR ONLINE TEACHING

1. Clear planning
2. Become familiar with your new online environment
3. Build routines
4. Build banks of ‘classroom phrases’
5. Use your f2f teaching techniques
6. Personalise your tasks
7. Keep it simple
THE FLIPPED CLASSROOM

How can we
apply this to the
online class?
THE FLIPPED CLASSROOM

• Give students a reading / listening task to do at

home.
• Use online class time to deal with feedback,
give guidance and do practice tasks.
THE FLIPPED CLASSROOM

• Discovery: this is what I call a pre-session stage – it could involve a text

or video-based activity, completing a terminology task, doing some
research into the topic of the upcoming session etc.
• Reflection: The purpose is to help participants formulate questions and
identify areas that they would like to explore further during the online
session.This can be done in pairs/groups.
• Practice: students do practice activities, moving from controlled to freer
and more communicative.
 4. In breakout 3. In breakout rooms,
students share their
rooms, students A
ideas and arguments
and B debate their based on the videos
arguments. they watched.

I. At home, student A
2. Students watches a designated
prepare their video on the benefits of
arguments at being vegetarian. Student
home based on B watches a video on
the videos they the benefits of eating
watched. meat.
 4. In breakout 3. In breakout rooms,
students share their
rooms, students A
ideas and arguments
and B debate their based on the videos
arguments. they watched.

I. At home, student A
2. Students watches a designated
prepare their video on the benefits of
arguments at being vegetarian. Student
home based on B watches a video on
the videos they the benefits of eating
watched. meat.
TASK BASED LEARNING

• Learning happens when students do tasks.

• There should be a clear outcome to the tasks you set.
• Tasks should be as realistic and personalised as possible.
TYPE OF TASKS

1. Brainstorming lists
2. Ranking / problem
solving
3. Real world tasks
4. Research projects
TYPE OF TASKS

A. Things you need in a lockdown.

1. Brainstorming lists
B. Choose the best tools to help Tom
2. Ranking / problem survive on a desert island.

solving C. Create a video about your home (MTV

Cribs style)
3. Real world tasks D. In groups students research how
different cultures yield turns in a
4. Research projects conversation.
USING PICTURES

How can these

help us in the
online class?
USING PICTURES

• Visually arresting and engaging

• Easily adapted to an online environment
• Can be easily personalized
EXAM PRACTICE: LOOKING OUT MY WINDOW
Translate this
into human
speech!
 A: Alex, you look different!
Translate this
A: I went sunbathing.
into strange B: Jealous!
planet
speech! A: It suits me!
B: It does!

A: It’s the tan!

B: I want a tan too!
@nathanwpylestrangeplanet
 Students write stories based on
the set of pictures they receive.

Students read each others stories

and find the differences.
You are the only survivors of a plane crash.
You have made it to a deserted island and
you can still salvage 5 things from the
wreckage of the aircraft. With your group
decide on the 5 things you decide to take
with you. Here is the list:…
Rose, Rose: decide on 2 activities
you want to try out in your next
lesson.

Thorn: is there something that you

are not sure about the activity? Talk
about it with a fellow teacher.

Bud: have you been inspired by an

activity / ideas you saw today? Share
your ideas with your fellow teachers.
Rose, Rose: decide on 2 activities
you want to try out in your next
lesson.

Thorn: is there something that you

are not sure about the activity? Talk
about it with a fellow teacher.

Bud: have you been inspired by an

activity / ideas you saw today? Share
your ideas with your fellow teachers.