In this episode I look at how you can use images effectively in the classroom and give your students more of those "a-ha" moments.
Through a job posting in a small Russian village, via a polyglot war hero, past split brain experiments and behaviourist studies, into Atkinson's Keyword Method (a vocab-learning approach) and out into the magic formula for "a-ha" moments, we look at what makes a perfect image.
At the end of the episode there are suggestions for different images you can use in the classroom today to teach various vocab and grammar points.
All content for The Clark and Miller English Podcast is the property of Clark and Miller and is served directly from their servers
with no modification, redirects, or rehosting. The podcast is not affiliated with or endorsed by Podjoint in any way.
In this episode I look at how you can use images effectively in the classroom and give your students more of those "a-ha" moments.
Through a job posting in a small Russian village, via a polyglot war hero, past split brain experiments and behaviourist studies, into Atkinson's Keyword Method (a vocab-learning approach) and out into the magic formula for "a-ha" moments, we look at what makes a perfect image.
At the end of the episode there are suggestions for different images you can use in the classroom today to teach various vocab and grammar points.
Episode 44 - The Quest for the Holy Grail of English Grammar | An Interview with Christopher Walker
The Clark and Miller English Podcast
1 hour 20 minutes 53 seconds
2 years ago
Episode 44 - The Quest for the Holy Grail of English Grammar | An Interview with Christopher Walker
In this interview, I talk to Chris Walker, a long-serving teacher at International House and author of English is a Simple Language.
Join us on our quest to “get to the bottom of it all,” examining and uncovering the underlying structures of English, following in the footsteps of Michael Lewis.
During this engaging conversation, we ask:
“Can we get to the heart of the meaning of modal verbs?”
“Can we summarize conditional sentences in a single sentence (or maybe two)?”
“Can we divide English grammar into either subjective or objective forms?”
But I also ask whether there really is a “Holy Grail of English grammar.”
Is there a system behind it all?
Is there something that unlocks the way grammar works?
Or is it more complicated than that?
At the end, and for a bit of a laugh, we also have a look at some badly-written test questions and how they can help you and your students understand these deeper, underlying dynamics at work in the language.
Don’t forget to check out Chris’s blog/archive at: www.closelyobserved.com
Music: bensound.com
The Clark and Miller English Podcast
In this episode I look at how you can use images effectively in the classroom and give your students more of those "a-ha" moments.
Through a job posting in a small Russian village, via a polyglot war hero, past split brain experiments and behaviourist studies, into Atkinson's Keyword Method (a vocab-learning approach) and out into the magic formula for "a-ha" moments, we look at what makes a perfect image.
At the end of the episode there are suggestions for different images you can use in the classroom today to teach various vocab and grammar points.
