Authentic Material

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Using tourist brochures for authentic practice, submitted by Elena Markova & Galina Goumovskaya

Comments on the Use of Authentic Materials in EFL and Their Cultural Role, submitted by Elena Doroshenko

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Hello!

 

Here I would like to present my examples of using authentic information in ELT. This is also ready-to-use material that has already been published in the "English" newspaper (a supplement to the "Pervoye Sentiabria" pedagogical newspaper).

So if anyone teaches Business English - I am happy to share my materials.

What have I done? I took authentic newspaper articles and created a set of exercises to them, which (hopefully=) would train all their linguistic skills.

 

Good luck,

sincerely,

Alyona Pavlova.

 

HOW TO SELECT BEST CANNDIDATES AND AVOID THE WORST.doc

LITIGATION OR MEDIATION – THAT IS THE QUESTION.doc 

NEW PRODUCTS FOR THE CYCLIST.doc__

PASSENGERS BEHAVING BADLY.doc___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

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Using The Moscow Times in a unit on Media and Newspapers, submitted by Irina

Authentic Newspaper Articles as a Source of Speaking Activities for Teenagers, submitted by Tatyana Kuznetsova

CD cover.doc tied to the curriculum of Computer Technologies and studies of authentic materials, submitted by Irina

Public Service Announcements on TV

Adaptable to all levels.

Introduce the idea of Public Service Announcements (PSAs -- TV commercials that provide a useful social message).

Watch a US American PSA about smoking and teens. 

Discuss:  What PSAs currently appear on Russian TV?  Do students like them?  Do they think they are effective? 

Analyse the PSA (the audience, the story, the message, the kind of language used, etc.)

Have students create their own 1 minute PSA.  You can give each group a different topic (teen pregnancy, drugs, peace, pollution, etc.) or let them choose their own topic (or give them all the same topic and see the different approaches they bring to it).   It can be assigned as a relatively quick in-class activity, or assigned as homework (in which case you'd want costumes, music, memorized lines, etc. for the final "performance")

(submitted by Toni)