☆ Read to Think & Learn To Explore ☆ Tips to Power up the Reading Class

1. ☆Read to Think & Learn To Explore ☆ Tips to Power up the Reading Class

2. You are the only expert to your students!

3. Being an English Teacher: Dreams or Nightmare?

4. Challenges for EFL Teachers in Taiwan Need for Survival? For Test Only?

5. Challenges for an EFL teacher/learner in Taiwan English as a Foreign Language One doesn’t need to speak the language to survive.

6. Learning a language is like…

7. Learning English in Taiwan is like…

8. Put on the Thinking Cap

9. Questions to Ponder • What matters most in your English Class? • What do you think how one learns? • What is your philosophy?

10. What matters most in my class… • Motivation • & • Involvement

11. What do we mean by “learning”?

13. Aren’t there any other possibilities?

15. How Much Grammar Do we Need? • Janice Yalden(1987), The communicative Syllabus: Evaluation, Design, and Implementation

16. The Beginning Level Linguistic Form (pattern drills/ verb tense/ sentence structure) Communicative Function

17. The Intermediate Level Linguistic Form (pattern drills) Communicative Function

18. The Advanced Level Linguistic Form (pattern drills) Communicative Function

19. Three Levels in a Balanced System Linguistic Form (pattern drills) I II IIII Communicative Function

20. What happens in our classroom?To Teach English as a Subject for Test? To Teach English as a Tool to use?

21. Looking for the Missing Piece! • Exposure and Involvement

22. A Motto for Effective & Enjoyable Teaching • Motivation matters! Involve them! Get Them Busy! Tiny Achievements! Work Hard, Play Hard: Pleasure and Fun!

23. From Learners to Users Use it to Keep it!

24. Keep Them Busy Right from the Start • Start the class like a fire!

25. Warm-Up: • A Proverb A Day • A Quote a Day • A Riddle A Day • A Tongue Twister A day • A Mini-Speech A Day • A Joke A Day • A Song A Week…

26. A Riddle a Day What have four fingers and a thumb, but no flesh, bones, or blood? Gloves

27. A Riddle a Day What do you call a witch at the beach? A sandwich.

28. Riddle Fun What is more useful when it is broken? An Egg

29. A Riddle a Day Pun Riddle What’s higher without a head than with a head? A Pillow

30. What am I? What is greater than god, More evil than devil; The poor have it; The rich want it, And if you eat it you will die? Nothing

31. A Riddle a DayA Brain Teaser Where does afternoon always come before morning? In a Dictiomary

32. A Riddle a Day Pun Riddle Why is “heat” faster than “cold”? Because people catch colds

33. A Proverb A Day • Turn Proverbs into Plays

34. ~A Proverb A Day~ • On a regular basis? • Why not stop and smell the roses?

35. 1. Haste makes Waste. • 2. Everyman has his price. • 3. Don’t put all the eggs in one basket. • 4. Laughter is the best medicine. • 5. Handsome is that handsome does.

36. 1. Haste makes Waste. • 2. Everyman has his price. • 3. Don’t put all the eggs in one basket. • 4. Laughter is the best medicine. • 5.

37. A Joke A Day A birthday present that goes from 0 to 200 in 5 seconds A Scale 1 pound = 0.45 Kg

39. Clean clams crammed in clean cans.Betty bought some butter, but the butter Betty bought was bitter,so Betty bought some better butter, and the better butter Betty bought was better than the bitter butter Betty bought before! A Tongue Twister A Day

40. Whether the weather be fine, • or whether the weather be not. • Whether the weather be cold, • or whether the weather be hot. • We'll weather the weather • whether we like it or not.

41. Swan swam over the sea,Swim, swan, swim!Swan swam back againWell swum, swan!

42. A Quote a Day • Students take turns sharing a quote every day! • Procedures: • Review the last three quotes! • Introduce the new one! • Tell us why this one! • Examples

43. How to Find a Quote • 1. Google: Quote • 2. By Topics: Learning, Friendship, Success, Life, Knowledge, failure, family, love, humor… • By Author: Mark Twain, Einstein, Churchill, …. • 3. Keyword: quote+ Topic word

44. Today’s Quote • Winners never quit; quitters never win. ~ Vince Lombardi (Famous American Football Coach )

45. You may delay, but time will not. ~ Benjamin Franklin

46. What doesn’t kill me only makes me stronger! • ~ Nietzsche (German Philosopher, 1844 - 1900)

47. If life gives you an orange, enjoy it. • If life gives you a lemon, • . Make it lemonade!

48. Great Wisdom in Simple Words • Be the change you want to see in the world. ~ Gandhi • We can do no great things, only small things with great love. ~ Mother Teresa • Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. ~ Helen Keller

49. Language Art: Parallelism • The proud man counts newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings. • ~ Fulton J. Sheen Bishop • Time is what we want most, but what we use worst. ~ William Penn • "A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." • -Walter Winchell

50. Great Wisdom in Simple Words • You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. ~ Golda Meir • People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. - Joseph Fort Newton • The mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open. ~Frank Zappa