UNIT 16 PRESENTATION TECHNIQUES AND INTRODUCTORY ACTIVITIES

    In this unit, I learnt  about presentation and techniques and introductory activities. First, presentation techniques are the ways used by teacher to focus learners' attention on the meaning, use and sometimes form of the new language, when introducing it to them for the first time.also, teachers use introductory activities to introduce a new lesson or teaching topic but teacher always is asking students if they got it through concept questions/checking. It consists on a  question asked by the teacher to make sure that a learner has understood the meaning of new language for example; teaching the new grammatical structure used to, using the example - He used to live in Paris. Concept question - Does he live in Paris now?; Am I talking about something definite or something indefinite? Another way to teach is by Situational presentation where teacher uses pictures or other aids to help him/her create situation. E.g., the teacher tells the students about something that happened to her one day at school. However, a way of presenting new language through a simple story or situation. The teacher may eliciting students when he/ she thinks that some learners will know a piece of language or other information, he/she asks targeted questions or gives clues to get, or prompt learners to give the target language or information rather than simply providing it to the class her/himself. In the activities pre-teaching the teacher can teach vocabulary from the text which she thinks the learners do not already know and which is necessary for them to understand the main points of a text. Finally, each lesson has warmers used to raise students' energy levels or to make them feel comfortable before the main learning of the lesson starts using realia, mine (body movements used to convey meaning without using words). They are not always connected to the topic of the lesson; e.g., they could be a quiz, game or pair work activity.

MORE RESOURCES:

1. http://www.finchpark.com/courses/tkt/Unit_15/presentation_techniques.pdf
2. http://teachingknowledge.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/pppytbl.pdf
3. https://prezi.com/favx3bysftea/what-are-presentation-techniques-and-introductory-activities/