welcome to the new school and tonight's events
collateral learning and hence is the ESL classroom withstand the L bomb
I'm Kate Morgan director of English language studies at the new school
and we are so pleased to be partnering with highly 7 gauge learning
to bring you an exciting and hopefully and most importantly
useful evening up grammar teaching ideas
and inspiration no matter whether it's your first year or you're twentieth year
teaching
we are always on the hunt to find more and better ways
to teach grammar to make it meaningful
readily applied fun and
memorable context we know is key
to teaching grammar and now with the internet smart rooms
smartphones smart boards and the media rich
environment we live and we can conjure more context
in our classroom than ever before how can we best navigate these Mary ad
choices to promote
learning fortunately we have sandy L bound with us here tonight to provide
some much
appreciated guidance thank you so much sandy for being here
and thank you to my colleagues at highly sherry Alan and Emily Stewart for your
collaborative
efforts for this event and a very special thank you
to the newly retired happily retired
hi I'm lease sales rep the legendary
and most exuberant stupak felled
to my father Pfleger and many have you have had to
I'm doing for so many years I'm still got the ball rolling
with me last spring on this and it's wonderful to have him
here tonight coming out of retirement to help out
and it's his birthday no less
so that commitment what a high only at heart kinda guy
newspaper thank you steer thank you so much for everything for all the years
thank you um and now to introduce our feature speaker
please welcome my colleague from kindly send gauge learning I'm restored
academic marketing manager for itself that I'm a little bit nervous I've never
used a
microphone right my face I normally do the a level where
on as kaelin said on the academic marketing manager with highly send gates
and it's a pleasure to be here and I want to thank you all for coming out of
your busy schedules on a Monday night
and taking time to watch
very inspirational presentation by Sandy album
and I'd like to introduce her and give you a little bit of background
information
about sandy because she's a very special woman who has done
a lot of a lot of I'm important things in special things with the SL throughout
her life
on starting from when she was just a little girl
sandy had experience early on as an ESL teacher
because she is a child of immigrants herself
so had to spend a lot of time translating and teaching her parents
as she was learning English so she with this background
it inspired and her on the ad
the ability and the need to teach others and that connection with
ESL students and I'm
people immigrants I'm from all over
so it started she started young and then she did end up going into a career in
teaching
yes ellen has taught for over 30 years on
both at the secondary higher education
school all different levels so she seen it all
and then too many many different countries Slovakia
up the former soviet union Mexico Puerto Rico
so she's traveled a lot and has experienced a lot and still to this day
very active helping refugees
I come who are coming to this country transition to this country
so she has a lot of that experience to this day
um to share with you all and how she helps them transition
with that being said I'd like to just read her acknowledgment
love which is in the book that you have because it's truly inspirational and it
really says a lot about sandy herself
okay this new edition is dedicated to the millions of displaced people in the
world
the US is the new home too many refugees who survived unspeakable hardships
in Burnaby rwanda sedan for my
Bhutan and other countries they're resilient
resiliency and starting a new life and learning a new language
is a tribute to the human spirit so
with that being said I'd like to introduce and the album i'm for this
presentation on grammar and collateral learning thank you very much
hi thank you for coming augie very often when I meet people for the first time
they say well what do you do for a living and I said well I'm an English
teacher they say
0 all well then I have to be careful with my grammar don't I and they start
to worry about the i's and Me's in the whose than the holmes is a no no I'm not
that kind of an English teacher
I teach English as a second language and you can imagine the next question
you probably have confronted this yourself what's the next question they
usually ask you
what language do you speak or just what they are yes or do you speak Spanish
and I say just take all those languages and I stepped up to score seaway
dog at I speak all those languages up but I think the next thing where people
think about what I say I'm an English teacher
is a think back to the time when they said they had a diagram sentences or
do those kind of crazy little things that we had to do an elementary school
and I think that grammar is boring and I'm here to tell you the grammar is
boring
okay shocked I it's alright
so I mean II go you go he goes I mean there's nothing really exciting it's not
like history where you're telling a story
you know up there you have to have something to really spiked up grammar
and make it interesting
so what I've devised at my methodology is to
combine grammar with collateral learning to think if you're learning something
else while you're learning grammar
that would be a great thing and that would in a especially if it's something
that peaks your interest
so I'm here to show you what I'll
of many classes I've taken it look like this many ESL classes that I have
visited have looked like this
and %ah and I'm hoping that nobody in this room has a class that looks like
this I think the only one in this class who is interested in anything is the cow
because it's relevant to the cows life why there's a coward in English class
I have no idea okay now I when I first started teaching ASL
a typical grammar book look does some I don't know if you go all go back to the
days of WoW toe in Dixon
if anybody is old enough and they all kinda look like this at that time his
latest the late
where is he you are here are you here where are you I was turned on by a
string
Who Am I ISO I
I am mister I'm a student MI is student makes absolutely no sense
I don't know if anybody was here for the Scott Thornbury I thought I saw the
YouTube
and our I was so impressed with that because I love the one where
I am touching your nose turret yeah
%uh yes also this is what are never use any place so I MUST
so I ended up back in the old Dixon lotto days that I shouldn't put these
guys down because
well it was the bread and butter back but let me know any better back but
let's just say that
they had exercises that look like this which was just a simple fill in the
blank exercises
and out what does this chin learn from doing these exercises
they learn to fill in blanks %uh
is this exercise interesting well obviously not
I is this exercise is this XIII should say is this exercise gonna wake up the
taxi driver in your classes been driving a taxi for 14 hours
and now it comes to your class here she okay probably not
I am if you ask me this exercise is geared more to the teacher than it is to
the street because
the dirty word in education is easy to grade
yeah so we want to stay away from that sort of like
so I'm gonna give you a little %uh joke that one of my students actually told me
and I it's something that we can use to
to teach in ESL all blessed with I'm
a I'll let's put it that I'm in Chicago and I have a friend visiting me from
Venezuela and my friend is downtown
and my friend calls me on the phone and she says
I'm lost and I say you're downtown am i right
and she says I I think so
of are you near bridge no I'm not are the state streets wide yes they are the
building's
tall yes they are is the train nearby no it isn't
I finally say okay take your phone I'll go to the street signs
tell me the street signs I will come and pick you up
so my friend goes to the street signs in says I'm at the corner walking
don't walk sup I A N
has probably happened to me in many countries okay I
so we're going to take the ER original I'll I
grammar explanation that I show drew and
I i'm going to compare it to something that you can do with the verb to be
you can say it said saying he is late is he late
you can say his downtown is he a low
why is he downtown you are lost are you worried
where are you I'm near bridge am I in the right place
where Am I so that can be used of for teaching the verb to be
co-op and so we go from something which is
a illogical sequence going back to the Scott Arbor I'm
touching your house kinda thing he is the way to seal a
nobody would ever say that kind of thing say he is downtown is he alone
somebody might say that kind of sequence so we go to a logical sequence from an
illogical sequence
so im in my book grammar in context which you all have a copy of
I it by the way is a four part series I you all have the top
a four-part series that has a number three but there's here's a basic the QoS
be
good news everyone on I believe the context is very important
I you have to wake up your students and context also gives you a lot of extra
things
I anybody wanna call out why context is so important
if you believe it so yes
used yes we use a language has to have meaning anybody else washout something
out
you remember because it's related to something so these are some other
reasons that I i have for
using a context when you other successful language learner learns
language holistically
to communicate we need to communicate about something I am Lake MI late is not
communicating about
anything of context reinforces vocabulary so you gotta lotta recycling
a vocabulary within the same lesson
and other studies have shown that it isn't enough to show somebody vocabulary
once
but you have to have various contexts related context
repetition of these contexts so that the vocabulary becomes more ingrained
other than grammar teachers few people are interested in just
naked grammar you're all interested in grammar but
ask any american friend appears are you interested in grammar there goes that
up you know i i don't like where I'm not good enough
they don't realize how well they know grammar thought so they're
instinct is I don't like grammar I don't know grammar very well
and offer a lot of people to teach ESL
to teach grammar specially to students who have never really studied forever in
their own languages
it's boring and intimidating and another really compelling reason for context to
be so important
is context for promotes collateral learning
now unlike collateral damage collateral learning is something good okay
a few about ten years ago in american educator which is a wonderful
educational magazine Journal I read a story I
that I thought was just so compelling and it's on your head a little bit a bit
is under handouts all along
longest place but edward O wilson who is a biologist a scientist
believes that everything should be taught in the form of a story everything
I and his um compelling reason for doing so is he says everyone loves a good
story
especially gossip which email he mentions to the article
facts presented stories as opposed to list are much
easier to remember likewise fax the stir up intense emotions are quickly and
easily stored in the brain
%uh storytelling is that something we just happened to do is something we
virtually
have to do if we want to remember anything at all
I think this is a very important quote and even before I read this article from
I started writing grammar in context in 1983 I believe
first edition came out in 1986 and I just instinctively knew this
and I was so I it was so fabulous for me to read this article because the kinda
validated what I thought I always knew but I never really had much validation
for
and a lot of other text books were not doing this sort of thing at that time
so I started to think well what do students need to learn
b-sides yes English as a second language what are the things that usually come up
shot something up because I know you know the answers to these questions
what how to survive in the city
I'm repeating just so it every how to shop
consumer things how to be polite
how to make a doctors appointment and I and II Emily mentioned you know when I
was a child I had explain a lot of these things to my immigrant parents who
didn't know I had to help them along
children up immigrants often parent their own parents
and very often assumes that you have if you have adult students their children
are helping to parents them to so rather than
giving the burden to the child in the immigrant or the refugee
weakened we can provide it for them so some other things that
they need to learn our culture customers that was when you talk about politeness
of survival skills they were talking about shopping how to make a doctors
appointment
of information about the United States some other current trends
consumerism and current events
and all this is what I call collateral earning
and so I combine grammar will all of these things in a few weeks through this
book after you leave you'll see how I do that
I and its I think it's important for are for the grammar
up for the context come from a variety of disciplines
first off %uh some of these people are gonna go on to college ok
credit courses and they're going to lets a study sociology or nursing and they
should be exposed to a variety of disciplines
also different people are interesting even if they're not going on to higher
education
different people are interested in different things and so you kind of get
everybody if you have
history geography different types of things
on so out contest can teach culture and customs and I'm gonna give you some
examples from
about how we do that I one of the things I like to use our Americans and their
pets
up naming customs the importance of being on time
and some wedding customs and I'll give you some examples here's a little page
from %ah book to a grammar into context switches
about pets so just rather than just giving a bunch of simple present tense
sentences its all in context anyway have
of the highlighted words are also present tense
and talks about the relationship that Americans have with their pets
up but you don't have to stop there i mean they're a lot of fun things that
you can do that are beyond the book
and so what is cultural about pets
this and cultural about pets what are things that Americans do that they don't
do in other countries
bury their
treat them like a member family dress
well sleep sleep with them okay you can actually
chefs you thinking have the weather
low hey there too their tongues out the door window drive the car practically
so here are some other things that I've come up with some of which you mention
with Halloween costumes for pets %uh cemetery somebody mentioned bearing
oh I just passed just 02 I just came from another city where past I passed
out pet hotel
I thought was a hotel where owners could stay with their pets but it was
no it was just kept okay there are restaurants for pets
of pets live indoors that may not be true in a lot of countries
dogs and cats often sleep with their owners anybody here have a doctor kept
sleep with you
fess up okay and I we have groomers for pets
and I we pick up after their dogs if anybody is ever going to
para ser Buenos Aires they know it it isn't done a lot of places
so %uh you can get a bite to discussing all these things and they're fun they're
just so lotsa lotsa fun
and you bring in pictures like this that makes it even more fun well
%uh you know you can create a simple present tense lesson based on this
and I of intestines or if you have a smart classroom where you can project
the Internet
you can go to Petsmart dot com you can have your students look at all the
things that can
I'll be done for pets and they can come up with their own set this is the things
that they find desire
and now this being Halloween this big Halloween I will show you some of my
favorites
I and by the way I'm gonna up mention right now
I before I forget that I am I make by of presentation available to anybody who
attends these
so if because you may want to use some love these visuals in class and you
don't have to invent the wheel
you can add to it you can modify I don't care what you do with that I was so if
you %uh send me an email which is at the top of my emails at the top of your hand
up I would be happy to send you the presentation
I and it is in four parts because I
I it's too large to send as is one email so I had to chop it up into four parts
so we have these Halloween costumes for pets I love
scaredy cat here of hot dog up %uh good I'll
bad jock
I I wonder what he did wrong I at like kitty Gaga
we don't want to we don't dislike the cat owners over here
and that one of my favorite is Hello Kitty
dressed up this Hello Kitty I'm a beast
the things that really got me you bring these things into class and enya is to
start laughing they start becoming more engaged
and your teachings simple presence helps I another thing I use
is up for American customs is I use American names
hot naming customs and I use this
to teach possessive forms and I'll show you how I do that
okay I do a little other thing called what's in a name
and up it could be a first day activity if you need a first day activity just
people getting to know each other or if you're doing are less than
possessive forms and pronouns personal pronouns object pronouns
and the way you do is write your full name on the book on the chalkboard
whiteboard smartboard whatever bored I still say black for that shows how old I
am
I N you tell how you got each part of your name I'm gonna demonstrate it
and %uh then it and if you do it in class it's really good if you will
demonstrated and then other people come in and and join you
okay so I'll tell you up my name is Sandra and
L bomb my and noticed but what I have in bold here or
I have another I of that color also this will be the focus of the lesson
my first name is Sam drop my friends call me sandy
my parents gave me my grandmother's name
her name was Saura she died before I was born
they thoughts or or was to European sounding and names so they
americanized is just and right today who knows I they probably call me sundance
today or something but
with the way things are today %uh so if you demonstrate that in your class
everybody has a chance to get up to the chalkboard whiteboard and
write their name and when you do it in a mixed cultural environment you will be
so surprised you will
learned so much about the cultures that these people I work a lot with upper
Indian people right now I
in as refugees I adopted a Corinthian family and
on everybody in the family actually has a different last names with the started
out that way
and they name there they give them a last name like
he was born on a rainy day that's the last thing like jobs was born on a rainy
day kind of thing
so I the family that I deal with thought is
a disarray no one has hired no one is is less than is not getting on a bus
no one is higher than God so they they just put a sentence together
and that's your last name tell us a little bit about out Native Americans
doesn't like a
yeah %uh so you find out of a lot about people and about their cultures by doing
the names
okay another thing I do is I like to talk about weddings and the customs of
weddings
well what's different about American weddings as far as you know
shout something out food
somebody here just got married or just paid for daughter's wedding
I anything else shorter shorter than what
some 0
oh that's right they can go on for days and days in some countries that's true
yes anything else by
bright only wears one dress as opposed to wear
what country are you thinking up where the bride wears more than one dress
yes yes okay
yes they changed our apps okay somebody else's us adjust
three days
he hit list to you
you just you just pay for daughter's wedding right okay
here are some other things that I think are up many for students find is
different
%uh they out there's a gift registry we ask for gifts
that may not be true in most countries it may be changing as time goes on
people are becoming more Americanized but I fixtures for absolutely appalled
that you would ask for
your own gift destination weddings of yes let's all go to Tahiti spend a
fortune
so you can celebrate my daughter's wedding reply cards
I've been to weddings where anybody ever in Mexico and even everybody can come
bring your friends there's there's no limit I we have a specific number of
guests
I'll there's a custom about where to bring the
up bring your son presence I return receipts
you get return the third toaster whatever it is I'll
think you Carson even same-sex marriages these are things that
may and that maybe not all of them but some of them are different
I thought you could have your students go to wedding channel dot com
up by the way on your hand out I have I'm almost every
reference I have I on the backside I have almost every reference a website
that I use
is listed there so that you can easily find it too
okay they got a wedding channel dot com they can find out
from I the types of things that
that people ask for a wedding you can develop %uh
a whole lesson about household items if that's a vocabulary thing
he wants he needs his ass he's at asks for blah blah blah
about the different household items and it would be a very good vocabulary
lesson
%uh a wedding videos also a very appropriate thing to bring to class
if any have your students have a DVD off from their wedding or their parents
wedding urs
brothers wedding or whatever I it makes a very very good way
up teaching the present continuous tense the present continuous tense
or some people call progressive is a very dead tens
because you want to make it a live music okay
guys what's happening
I'm standing talking you're sitting listening
he's filming back there and there's not there's not a lot and it even standing
and sitting
and wearing are kinda static kind of things they're not anything that has any
motion to them
so we bring in a wedding video and I a student
now gets to show his with parents hopefully
not all three days but hopefully you know maybe 15 minutes love the most
important part of the wedding
and the student now can say she's carrying this they're drinking this
and now you I once had a it is.
woman from Bangladesh in my class and almost all
soviet I'll right well ukraine's whatever
but soviet people during soviet days and they were just amazed
and the the Bangladeshi woman had never met her husband before the wedding they
were just
absolutely appalled and they had a million questions like
why is she looking down why is she looking so sad so a lot of question
formation came up
about something that's real I am talking you were sitting
is boring as I said grammar can be brought boring bring in the wedding
video and you've got something really interesting to talk about
and if and it's also very cultural I think it's rich
and it's also let's say if you had a class love almost all hispanics and you
had one person from
poland I mean it might be really interesting for that person to bring in
the video
hey another thing that cultural time what's cultural but I'm
what is in cultural about time I'll when is it necessary to be on time when is it
acceptable to be late when should we be early
are some people a bit really late argue most americans where watch
I heard on NPR nowadays people don't wear watches anymore they just carry
their cell phones
okay so sale watches his guard down
%uh now let's say you're you have a are you're teaching a very basic class
in your teaching of what time is it is nine o'clock what time is it
well something more interesting is to go to the world clock on the Internet
and now you can have say the senses like what times in California
what time is it in this tumble are is your watch faster slow
are usually on time is it important to be on time
you have a %uh a lesson about being you have a lesson about time
its in a very basic level a at three honey are copies a facebook
basic I you can see how I do it in the in the very basic book
I am getting Cherry Street shake shaking her head
so it's more interesting that 0 I have to tell you this
a my my grandchildren at were actually my career Indian
Rancho their americanize now I they %uh
I I told them a couple weeks ago I we split up and I said meet me back my car
10 24
and they said tell us in real time so would mean real-time
10 24 said tell us in real time so what's real time
like 3 25 it they all know digital clocks
sup that's interesting too okay
I somebody mentioned before survival skills are really
%uh necessary what are some other survival skills
%uh tenants rights finding a job filling out forms and shopping
I and when you teach students survival skills really empowering them
they become less dependent on their children I had to figure these things
out for them
and less dependent on you I and
they can get things done that a better so I here's a survival skill a lot going
to the supermarket and we have
of free samples free backing automatic checked out unit pricing
all those kind of things and let's look at the kind of grammar we can derive
from that
you can do a lesson on be got it is expensive it is
chip bid for style is a second I'll I you can do things
singular and plural how many boxes are other boxes
a loaves the bread the bananas
you can do are counting on count nouns
and you there isn't there are for example of
is there a cashier in this line 0 there isn't a cashier it's an automatic check
out you couldn't so all the cultural survival things come out
and I %uh and they're practicing the grammar patterns
I often use peapod dot com what I want to teach count
not count nouns and you can say I'll
merchant a what's on sale of how much is the
which is the ice cream I so you
you can deal you can start to categorize which of these things are count nouns
which of these things are not kowtow as anybody familiar with peapod
it's a to home shopping so %uh site if you want dole
don't want to go out shopping I don't know if they have in all loca
localities but I you can still find it online whether they have it or not so
some people can order you have a fresh direct okay so use that as your website
Tuesday okay
all filling out forms on what I used to have
what in before the Soviet Union fell apart mostly by students were from the
Soviet Union
and they always told me that there were more forms to fill out the United States
from there were
in the soviet bureaucratic they said were far more bureaucratic then-soviet
union
so what kinda grammar would come from filling out forms somebody guess
what kinda grammar lot of things can come out no wrong answers how do you
like that
anything come to mind infinitives give me an example
you need to do this it's important to do that something like that
okay anything else
okay but I'm talking is specifically about the form
yes I retired good answer parents yes I'll take another good answer
yeah very good okay those are the things that come to my mind imperatives
or modles very good I let me show you here so Social Security Administration
application which many of your students probably have to fill out at some point
and up you look at all the circle things you've got all these imperatives
and it's also important to point out I i noticed that in in
forms they never say don't they also do not which is
a much more formal way you know %uh
so of there you have a lesson in imperatives or you can also transform it
into modles like
you should do this you shouldn't do that you must do this okay
arm another survival skill is our jobs and careers
I can you think of any grammar that would go with jobs and careers
anybody wanna take a guess simple pass give me an example simple past
yes you have to okay simple past applies to job history
you could also use present perfect because in an interview
other a the interviewer was a have you had any experience of how long have you
worked at such and such a place
so I in the in grammar in context 3 I use it for present perfect but I'm sure
you can find other
really appropriate uses are and so students need to know how to write a
resume how to prepare for an interview
of body language during an interview I'll its
it's very hard for some people to sell themselves they find it a very
foreign kind of thing to do and very uncomfortable
on appropriate clothing for an interview punctuality
are selling yourself and following up on an interview
our I also use the Occupational Outlook Handbook it's all
the the website is listed on your hand out to worry about it and I here's one
for computer systems analyst I used to use one for ESL teachers and was so
depressing us
I stopped using it but anyway so outfit
I is anybody you're familiar with the Occupational Outlook Handbook
yes yes okay it's great for students they're trying to just %uh younger
students especially
or trying to decide on a career I you can guide them through this it's very
helpful for them to
to look at this and I'll they get the future they get the
arm future this career will this profession grow in the future
so if somebody is interested for example in becoming I love
I don't know whatever where everything is outsource these days
you might say well let's look at let's say will there be jobs for this kind of
person in the future
this career in the future of Ford nurses they
always seem to have jobs in the future for out and anything having to do with
care of geriatrics it seems a and anything that can't be outsourced
okay so another thing that you're going to get in the Occupational Outlook
Handbook
is the nature of the work and if you
take a look at all the things I've circled I don't know how clear it is way
in the back
what tenth is coming up here simple present tense
even if the student doesn't understand everything
about this he would be more if if he's
if he's in need of a job it is a native selecting a career
he's going to be motivated to try to understand what these words mean
I even if he doesn't remember them %uh a little bit later on but he's still gonna
be motivated to try to learn what they mean
any get a sense of how the simple present tense issues
okay so often another thing is
survival skill is renting an apartment I'll any
grammar that you could think that might come up when we talk about terms the
police
negotiating the least number of people who could mean Department heating
problems pest problems
pests pets okay conditional
give me examples conditional 3
good if I do this well I have to do that
somebody mentioned modles I'll and thats
what I kind of look at it as is a modal a slim weathers
it's always good to or you could
yes no question especially
exactly it's a great
a great way to practice to do a little role play
one person is the landlord is that what you call here
your tone here okay and a.m. the other person is the potential tenant
and they can do the role play and then you can practice questions and I don't
know about you but my students never seem to master questions
yet yet for example of look at the
where lives are brother that kind of thing or
why you joked %uh speak Spanish or something like that so if you i i pull
this out Ave
attendants up book probably in Chicago
and you know this how many models are there and it's a good time to tell your
students
don't use must all the time it's usually in official documents you know legal
documents it's not something like
I'm tired I must go to sleep it say they tend to overuse that
that kinda lost I so you could point out to them that this is where you would
of most likely see must and an ordinary speech we would probably say have to
okay authors also consider this and other things to say to learn is
consumerism
of buying the use car
coupons rainchecks rebates telemarketing
up by the way everything I mention here isn't one of the four books these
these topics so on take a look at that when you have a chance this also
empowers your students
on what about this lesson work hold up by three cars here better for sale three
years cares what do you think you could do with that
there you go you can if yet doing two cars you can do a comparative less than
if you're doing three cars you can do or more a superlative lesson
so you can take your students to %uh with such as this
does this Kelley Blue Book or
yeah %uh kit yet these are often these are dead shots these are just screenshot
so they're not live
okay KBB dot com Kelley Blue Book dot com
they can pick up three cars that they might be interested you can assign
it once chin to pick up the car isn't it even centuries just said pick up hairs
that they're interested in buying
have them sit together get this information compare the cars
another web site you can go to is of fuel economy dot gov don't bother
reading these things down there all on the back cover sheet
I and you can repair not only the cars themselves but you can't compare fuel
economy
so somebody says well I'd really like to get that that Hummer
and you find out that it's like 0 miles per gal
year ago %uh so that that might change their mind about buying the Harvey
are and it's a really good way I love are informing them
about that these things are a lot of schools don't know that all of this
information is available
by now most diverse chins are pretty proficient in internet use
up but they're probably just fooling around the things that they're very used
to like Facebook and may not ever
confront these kinds of things so it's nice to point them out
I also have a lot of other things that I think are just plain old contemporary
and an interesting things
um of I have mentioned Facebook the fact that this is a 24/7 society
I'll Twitter of course most musicians probably are already using these things
and Groupon which I'm gonna mention are a little bit later
up but one other things is freecycle does anybody here
heard a freecycle one person
okay we got about I yeah maybe eight or nine people have heard a freecycle
okay I have a story about recycling one other books
let me explain to you what it is freecycle is a website that was
developed by
hours some some guys who decided that too much stuff goes into landfill
and I have stuff that you may need you have stuff that I it may need
I wanna clean out my closet on my grandpa just died and we had to get rid
of all of his stuff
okay how do you get rid of it you put it on freecycle you joined by your
me it locale I don't know if New York City if you
it may be broken down into the borough's or whatever I
in Chicago there's probably a with all the suburbs there's probably at least 10
twelve different recycles that you can join in the Chicago area
and euless things as %ah
wanted or offer and it's not an exchange it's not I give you my
guitar and you give me your boots it's not like that at all
its I have a guitar I never use anymore
I want to clean out my closet I put it out there you become part of a greater
community
a people forgive and get in give
and get and a lot of your students probably need to get stuff
I when I work with refugees you know they need o'clock they need a radio they
need a TV
boys it easy to get a TV thats that size %uh the flat screens
you know everybody's everybody's throwing their TVs at getting the flat
screen
I so if I have a a refugee's that says I need o'clock I said I could probably get
you one tomorrow
and i cant I just go on freecycle I say what a pan and let me give you just a
little bit
if you plan on using freecycle let me give you a little tip
if its whole story about why you wanna you're more likely to get
because I often too is it refugee they just arrived in Chicago week ago
it and they have an empty apartment at the really be this
you know at like 30 people come up with the clock for me you know
obviously things that are more modern and more
%uh you know up to date like a DVD player Blu ray player
you're not going to find that very much on freecycle but you can get people TVs
and things like that
that why do I what kind of grammar character
drive I love this I Drive adjective clauses and let me show you how I
how I do this I sir II um boxed
these I'll two things of wanted
a noise reducing canceling headphones working or not
I'm this is an actual page from freecycle I didn't make any other sup
I have an autistic son is very sensitive to noise we have to avoid certain
situations but about
second one offer pony backpack lightweight
10 for small child's backpack never used of the next one offer
child she music case personalized Katie
ok let me show you how to turn that into a lesson what's
to her of recycler has a son who is autistic
edge if clauses a free cycler has a daughter whose name is Katie
a first like there has a backpack that is never used
they've learned how to do the grammar
and they've learned how to get the things that they need in a nice little
package
yeah you know I i've done this presentation a number of times and very
often
even a the people who are not coming for my presentation but they might be
the people filming it hurt you the ancillary people here this
use freecycle was really great you know it's a great way to i mean i i freecycle
at least once a week at least once a week I find something in my closet that
I absolutely don't need
I have to tell you a little story though I'll little side
I the guys on the guys that started this I don't know their names but they were
on NPR and the
they were interviewed and they said what was the most bizarre thing
you ever saw advertised on freecycle
and by the way there are some regulations no live animals out there
are some regulations you know really all I mean
you know that's not where you want get rid of your little kittens or anything
like that
up he said the most bizarre thing he ever saw was laundry lint
somebody wanted pounds and pounds of laundry lint
why it was for an art project w/o you don't get your step ahead II
you know I mean I had a box a bowl buttons that dolly's mismatch buttons
and
I mean I put it on freecycle about probably ten or fifteen people wanted
them it was
tough to make a decision everything from elementary school teachers who needed it
for project
you know yes yes
oh that's a very good question
very very good question I'm its anything
you want it to be what it usually is I
is leaving something at the it front door of your house
and then you don't have to let a stranger into your house
hot that I have so many recyclers that I have already know because we've traded
so many things for so many years now
that i'm happy to open the door handed to them and
you know say hi how are you %uh I want me the most is our 1
at the most desire exchange I ever made was
the woman was coming up from I live a
in Chicago and she lives near the Wisconsin border
and she had a travel quite far hot to give me
or I travel quite far so she said I will meet you at a parking lot
FBI at I'll the jewel which is our
a big grocery store there %uh which was halfway between where she lived
and where I live and it was actually somebody who needed cameras to take 20
gotta
so that children on the street could take pictures of how their lives were
and I was collecting cameras for ogata
and she had a lot of all cameras to give to me so we met we pulled up in a
parking lot
next to each other she handed me a paper bag we said I said thank you
I felt like was a drug deal yeah
but its anything and everything up but the most this safest way is to leave it
at on your door
at your doorstep okay on another thing that just occurred to me
I don't like dancing with the Stars but I was that I was visiting a friend the
other day and rather than look at me she was
shook her head kept verdict dancing the first to ever sought
you probably vaulting right no no
okay also it's got some the contemporary a lot of questions have probably seen it
what can you do with it argument sample a chair and
desert very good ok that was an easy one
okay anything else
describing the outfit so you can get adjectives anything else
questions okay and what came up for me what
adverbs for example he's dancing gracefully he's dancing awkwardly that
kind of thing
okay and what came up for me was comparisons I'll who is a better dancer
which is a pretty your costume
all kinds of things and you get comparison lesson out of this
this just %uh that just this morning I was checking my email
and of course I get Groupon every day to you guys to all occur finest on her part
and I just threw this one in at the last moment so Groupon dot com is not on your
list because it was just
something that occurred to me at oh my god okay
I'm a vegetarian so there's this new vegan restaurant that's opening up in
Chicago twelve dollars well
so I as I started because now I'm thinking a lot about grammar because I'm
here to talk about grammar
I started to think in terms of what this means grammatically
anybody wanna come up with anything we want me just tell you
I'll just tell you okay um what came up for me was motels and I'll show you how
you don't have to pay full price for the Groupon you can save money
thought you shouldn't wait the deal ends tomorrow
and by the way I that came back to my room later the deal was it was gone
I what about whether it was gone I you should read the fine print because
they're all kinds of disclaimers and things like that
and you have to use the Groupon by February 2012 that's the specific group
%uh
that I just showed you okay %uh
so I gotta lotta moats I love it that a lot of mileage and then you're teaching
your students how to get something that it
I don't know if foreign students is into the Groupon thing but it's kinda fun
anyway on this thing is I like to bring an interesting people
and what is interesting to me may be different from what's interesting to you
but
you'll find the grammar uncut
up people I consider interesting and when I choose interesting people I
always look for things that are
people overcoming the odds I like stories like that
you know and I also like immigrant and refugee stories
%uh of people that have been successful some famous like Albert Einstein
I'll the family I deal with I have a story about the lookout the refugees
Charlotte and Terrence from around there a story about them
are the Lost Boys of Sudan I bet you some if you have them in your classes
right
nobody has lost my sister I'm shocked
I northern New York um and anyway
I'll show you how I do it %uh this one such a no brainer
you'll know what the grammar thing is I love this story
%uh it most people who have use this book comment about the status during
President George Dawson
everything that we're using it in my book
vigil do like the story
yes hotel researcher Justin yet to work
from a very very young age and and he never had a chance to go to school in
the
he was 98 years old in a decidedly wanted to learn how to read
so he went to an adult learning center you learned how to read i don't know how
well but he learned how to read to his satisfaction
and I he wrote a book called life is so good
and so it is all it is a nice lesson
in simple past tense are he died a
recently at the age of 103 and when I tell my students the story I always say
the moral of the story is
learning to read can kill you cause and effect
ok I have lost boys have Sudan and I think that their
very fascinated they I say they have a very very interesting story
I think it's book 3 that has story about Lost Boys of Sudan
offer three months they walked hundreds of miles until they reached
ethiopia another non-related sentences John
dating by the way the prop prop they're often the Dinka tribe in many
Luol Deng you know from the Chicago Bulls he's from their tribe also
you know it's probably me for Chicago but
ever hears you I i mean i got now that michael Jordan is good maybe you've
never heard a scuffle fills a
okay I John de nevers supermarket until he came to the United States so we have
all of these time hours for until before
after and a lot of the what uninteresting part of the story is
I'll when some of them stepped into a stupor
they came from not only another country they came from
two hundred years ago as far as how life was
in that country they had no electricity plumbing
anything that you can imagine and when they walked into a supermarket and the
doors
open for them home while and then they looked at whatever they had such
scarcity you know
and they looked at all the food and somebody I I swear to God I read this in
an article
thing was in time and newsweek that said he asked if it was the
are it with it was the palace with the King America
I mean it it's very it's funny and it's touching all at the same time
us we have our time words from that story context can also be personal
and let me give you an example up for use to
I like to bring my high school yearbook to class and gross everybody out with my
hair do
up absurd
oh I'll show you very soon okay yeah he'll be fair you asked
so I bring in use to their a.m. I
it's sort of like a layaway the lake with France's like everybody said that's
princess Leah
I suppose that anybody want to get the year get the year
sixty their clothes 65 is the close X 24
64 so I can bring in all the little things about 1964
I used to wear knee socks with penny loafers ever remember the penny loafers
I used to have a bouffant hairdo are used to iron my
here that was before they have those straight we use like regular you know
tiredness but where and it any encourages students to bring in pictures
of them when they lived in their countries when they were younger and
they can talk about use to
hot context can also give information about the United States
%ah they're here they're interested in the United States and here are some of
the ways we can do it
well we can talk about US
an American about American cities we have San Francisco Chicago I don't want
to leave out your lovely new york's I put that in there
at the last moment and I what do you think you can teach from doing this
I give me an example if there is there are
good okay you can use it for their is there are there are tall buildings in
New York there is a lake in chicago very good
past okay the bridge was built and then you go to Wikipedia for when it was
built of course
okay I use it for comparative and superlative but you are free to use it
in any way you choose
okay and let me give you a website is again it's on your list
I this place is dotnet is a really cool website
I it will compare two or more
American cities of giving you cost a pothole
are the kind of people who live there the household income the climate the cry
crime education health transportation and religion let me give you a webshop
over this %ah this is what it would look like if you go there you can ask your
students
ought to pick a city maybe they have a maybe they have a cousin who's living in
Pittsburgh or
of or they're thinking of moving to Los Angeles because
their I don't know they get a job where they have a relative living there
on you can %uh I'll put in let's say we have here
compare okay you would click on compare of
let me show you this again in case anybody was looking you click on compare
you put a city here you put another city here
and then you could compare and you will get a comparison
up to American cities so you can start to talk about
I'll chicago is more crime than
Pittsburgh chicago is bigger than Pittsburgh's the
a the property to housing in New York is probably more expensive than housing in
chicago
so you can compare on a number of different job
coordinates you can compare are two
or more cities so you can assign different cities to research to
different
students and they can get together and have a comparison lesson with two cities
superlative lesson with more than chip of course
American holiday so what do American holidays which is that
what else does that bring up for you
I will bring up civil I could be future it could be next week is
Halloween you could do is future if it's an ear thing
but basically you're going to talk about what the customs of the holiday are
hot so I see it as a simple present tense less fun
another thing I bring up for up for this is %uh
for the united states is jury duty on students may or may not be interested
they may actually
a if they're already citizens be called for jury duty
anything %uh come to mind for you about jury duty
modles yes you must do this you can't do this you should do this anything else
I use it for passive okay let me show you how I use it for passive
this is from the Chicago jury duty problem
manual or online thing all what should I wear you've got your models in their
on but you've also got a lot love
passive voice here and I think
I love the part where it says will I be paid in says yes you're paid
you will be paid you will receive seventeen dollars in
twenty cents per day Boyce sign me up
okay so you could but yes it does lend itself very very well to motels and it
lends itself to pass a voice
on also current events you've got your on
you've got your thing going on its feet hurt here you've got your %uh
Occupy Wall Street I've obviously it's not in my book any
my books is just happening right now what can you use it is what you use it
for
in your class
present continuous present for it you know they're carrying signs they're
marching on the street
%ah there shouting the other a you know you can do that
are there what what services the texting
other protest yes they're protesting and then you get why are they protesting
what kind of signs either carry
so you have a nice present continuous less than you can even do this
at a very very low level if you have beginning students
you can just do %uh you know she is
angry oz he is up man is behind the woman you could do very very simple
things with this
and they get a sense a participating in what's going on right now in New York
nm the United States and I understand even internationally
this is going on now okay another thing that's very
contemporaries as Steve Jobs jobs I want to jolt
at Red and what does it does bring to mind in terms of
are what kinda tense you could do
unfortunately its past tense go out past tense
in there okay I you can bring in um
health and safety issues what I've got is safe driving
I and what does that call up for you in terms of grammar
modles okay I'll do you text and right can you text and drive showed you text
drop why shouldn't you text and drive what can happen if you text and drive
got a moral lesson right there okay I just through this and because it
its new york okay you could also take other signs from the
from the driver spoke and you can have a a modal slawson or you can have an
imperative lost a lot of that
%ah here is from up Pennsylvania driving book
and it's all motels automobiles in there
again your emphasizing that must is all the more to love
a for a formal think up there's also something fun I don't know if we are
going to have time
how much going on time back there good ok
art I let me show you some things I use I use up mister bean
a lot I'll do it right if the ER
the mister bean no cover over there yes
this is my favorite thing and
teaching English my absolute favorite
the vignettes are about five minutes long I bought in a package that's called
the whole being there are 38
yeah their 30 parts to this and each part has many other subparts
and I find that you can do really good lessons on
almost anything in this case
I have an example of this turbine is is mister been stealing the Mona Lisa
why is he looking over his shoulder on and
now if I have time off actually show you what a mister bean
I'll clip I'll by the way nowadays
I noticed that you can act and I put this on your hand up
that mister bean is also available I love either on youtube or there's a
disturbing website
Sadar even have to buy this anymore I P thirty five dollars on Amazon it was the
best purchase I've ever made my teaching career
others website called with is that shop
ok the it we have cute overload dot com and I want you to take up
take a look at the following pictures: and see what comes to mind
in grammar this picture
this picture
okay and you get for positions
let me go back to the whole thing
the chick the chicken is said check it the check is next to the dog or near the
dog
the chick is in the dogs my of
the the the chicks are around the
the dog and I'll the check is I love the tractor and you can I school prep
shoot overload is a great great great website for
really funny pictures om here's another one I really love
I love vanity license plates and I'll tell you how are you vanity license
plates
I vanity license plates can teach how to use lost for inference
like if you look at the one for Michigan you say
this person the owner of this car must be an educator must
mice must be a teacher educator up though if you look at the Ontario
want me what you say this person must hate must be very impatient must hate to
wait
%uh if you look at the Illinois license plate %uh
says this person must have a good sense of humor this but first must love to
laugh
and I just kinda went through a whole buncha from
and by the way this %uh I love I love these
that the home thing we were talking about before this person was to
if must be proud of the fact that this like her doesn't get good tips pilots
what's the inference this person must drive real fast
okay what what do you want to say about
lost about this person
this person must be show off yeah
I these are real these how are you
this person must be recently divorced okay
Aug another thing I have is I used up dear abby: up for
anyway out et I'm not to mention once again like if you just want to use my
power point
last already had use it adapt to it add to it do whatever you want with it
son for it and I'd be happy sent you I also use %uh
dear abby: problems where students can do role play
and this often are this often it leads to
all a %uh bowls like
I think you should i think you must I think you can it also was good for
question formation because I have students
I right questions for the person who was going to roll paper
the problem so let's say somebody says my wife is a lawyer in New York I'm an
engineer I got an offer to use to
lift Washington I S chance to write questions how long have you lived in New
York
what is the salary your wife is gonna get so they can practice question
formation
before they give their advice and I'm almost I'm almost there
nothing is that use %uh a lot of songs %uh in class
I have a a highly us engage website
where I have a list up and I I have if I told you the website it's one of those
web sites that have all kinds of like question marks in other
and they're very hard to type in accurately so I have
on the %uh on the handout just google
cengage L bomb ask offer
and you will find that website and I have a listed
songs that correspond to various grammatical
patterns and for example anything you can do I can do better
on will correspond to
of its gonna go %uh corresponds to
on comparisons okay
and up with me on going to visit her family and fill in the blank
Dominican Republic sought a good one up
excellent excellent choice okay and she has a dog I let that she has such a
while
and does she is going to the airport she's going to a party are
JFK probably and she says up
this dog is very very important to me
please I have to take this dog to the Dominican Republic take
very
she these nope no probably she gets on the plane
she arrives in the Dominican Republic she has to go through customs is taking
time
the meantime the baggage people opened
the box and they say oh mike got the dog is dead
all the woman is gonna kill us it's a brown shoe while law
it's a female there's a pet store nearby run to the pet store
we're gonna get that show our show will put it the box she's never gonna know
the difference
okay so they so they they by the time she gets have customs they have the dog
they have that the brown shoe all-male trial in the box and the ancestor
she opens the box and she says this is not my choice our
just yes it sure it's your job watches you know this is not my dogs
yes it's yours no it's not my
yes it's yours no mine was dead I was bringing it to the Dominican Republic to
area
okay so you
so you can take a up
you can take possessive adjectives a possessive pronouns and make a left turn
and and and what you have is this
nice little lesson these walks just haven't been the same since
Rex died okay so
of I what I want to just wind up by saying
is your grammar classes enriched in your students our
Iran powered with collateral learning that's my story and I'm sticking to it
weekend break
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I we're gonna pass like about you you ever bother them with
thought descriptive names like these remote also do you just
do the whole lesson in Figure though internalize it %uh
I I almost have to you know I I like to put it in the category if you can avoid
it I mean is so much the better
you can get them to internalize it %uh sometimes it's just helpful but
you know but the problem is they say that they went to work in the afternoon
American coworker
could you tell me how to use modles Americans never heard of it
I whatever works for you II use the categories but
many people don't would rather they internalize that this we're focused
vector
about the basic
Paulo her how low
is basic out basic is it it's pretty low and its
I'll deals mostly with survival skills I wouldn't say it's a stark beginner you
might have to have a little but it's over there you can take a look and judge
for yourself
thank you anybody else
I yes I would probably bring that up at a higher level at a lower level
I me the book it has it is a category but thats
that could be mostly for the teacher that that the teacher convicted Vitner
category
so I think we're gonna break thank you so much sandy thought was
wonderful got home in like a