The document outlines a workshop on exploiting authentic materials as alternatives to textbooks in English language teaching. The workshop uses photographs to design language learning activities and tasks. Participants work in groups to analyze activities done using a photo and to create new activities for different photos based on criteria like interest, skills practiced, and potential for extension. Groups then present their activities to the class. The workshop aims to demonstrate how photos can be used to develop meaningful, engaging tasks for language learning.
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Exploiting Authentic Materials - Photographs
1. The 5th National English Language Teachers And Lecturers
NELTAL Conference - 2013
MATERIALS AND MEDIA
IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING
Faculty of Letters
State University of Malang
March 30, 2013
2. I / A / L / F
Education for Development
Workshop
EXPLOITING AUTHENTIC MATERIALS
AS ALTERNATIVES TO TEXTBOOKS
Using Photographs
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3. Map of the Workshop
Model activities from a photograph
Tasks and language analysis
Creating tasks and activities from photos
Discussions
Questions and answers
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6. What photo is it?
Where/when was it?
Are you in the photo?
If not, where were you?
Work in pairs, talk to your partner
about where you were
and what you were doing at that moment.
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7. Look at the photo again,
identify a person whom you know in the photo.
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8. Write down his/her name
on the back page of the photo.
Get ready to describe the person, i.e.:
His/her physical appearance,
The clothes he/she is wearing,
What he/she is doing.
Stand up, talk to other people in this room.
Find out the names of all people in the photo.
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10. Think about the activities you have just done.
Analyze the activities using the criteria below:
1. General interest of the topic.
2. Grammar and vocabulary practiced.
3. Skills practiced.
4. Potential for task extension.
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11. 1. General interest of the topic:
Personal experience, describing people.
2. Grammar and vocabulary practiced:
- Present continuous tense,
- Lexis of parts of body and clothing,
- Adjectives describing people and clothes,
- Prepositions of place.
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12. 3. Skills practiced:
- Speaking for fluency and accuracy
focusing on describing people,
- Listening to detailed descriptions
to find reference in the photo.
4. Potential for task extension:
Writing task describing a person in the photo
or the conference.
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13. Creating tasks and activities from photos
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14. Work in groups of three.
Design some activities for the photograph given.
Consider the criteria discussed previously:
1. General interest of the topic.
2. Grammar and vocabulary practiced.
3. Skills practiced.
4. Potential for task extension.
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15. Discussions
Tell the class about
the activities and tasks
your group has designed
for the given photograph.
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