Collins Teaching Techniques for Communicative English. Jane Revell

       Contents

       Acknowledgements

       About the Author

       Preface to the Second Edition (2011)

       Preface to the First Edition (1979)

       1 Communication

       1.1 Surprises

       1.2 Communication

       1.3 Communicative competence

       1.4 Teaching communicative competence

       1.5 Accuracy versus fluency

       2 Limbering up

       2.1 Getting in the mood

       2.2 Possible problems

       2.3 Dealing with mistakes

       2.4 ‘Getting to know you’ games

       1 Adding on names

       2 Throw and name

       3 Back to back

       4 Find out and report back

       5 Half and half

       6 Find your identical twin

       7 Just the job

       8 Untie the knot

       9 Circle of trust

       10 Three make a tree!

       2.5 Activities involving gesture and mime

       1 Interpreting gestures

       2 Mime a message

       3 What’s my job?

       4 Pass the parcel

       5 Guess what the guest means!

       6 Mime a story

       7 Charades

       8 Auditions

       9 Build up a character

       10 Listen and act it out

       2.6 Activities involving intonation and expression

       1 React to the news

       2 React and make a gesture

       3 Mood cards

       4 Three or four line dialogues

       2.7 What would you say?

       1 Practising set responses

       2 Practising specific structures

       3 Practising specific functions

       4 Practising making an appropriate response

       3 From script to spontaneity

       3.1 Scripted and partially scripted dialogues

       1 Using a sketch

       Anything to declare?

       2 Using a text in reported speech

       3 Half-dialogues

       3.2 Questionnaires