Communication is the meat of the standards. Like a main

course that can be prepared by boiling, frying, baking. or grilling, communication also comes in different forms –

speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Some examples of communicative classroom

activities include

If communication is the meat, then cultures are the rice.

You can’t have one without the other. Enjoy all of those fun, cultural exploration of

holidays, food, society, daily life, and then help your

students to really understand the “why” behind them. Culture is filling for the

soul!

Once your main course is established, enrich it with a variety of dessert. Foreign language learning is more powerful when the target

language is used to develop into social studies, politics, literature,

art, math, history, or science. After all, a meal of just meat and

rice might taste great, but it is not as nutritious and exciting as

a meal should be.

When tasting a new beverage for the first time, you savor it, comparing the taste to something you know. Let your

students taste the target language and compare it to what they know. One of the benefits of studying a

foreign language is a better understanding of one’s own language and culture. Ask your students to stop

and think about similarities and differences. Fore example diagrams are one effective activity for making

comparisons.

In the English class students can work in groups to write, produce, and videotape a fifteen-to-twenty minute English language news show that include news events; a live from-the-scene report; weather; sport; and commercials. The news include items from the English-speaking world.

1-Students work cooperatively in groups.

2-Students produce the newscast in the language studied.

3-Students present news stories that reflect a perspective from the culture studied.

4-Students develop news items on a variety of topics.

5-Students use the language in classroom.

6-Students develop insights necessary for media literacy.

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Nora AlqarniBushra  Alhussain

Modi AlmajaflSarah AldaoudArwa Al-Fayez