Test Techniques

I think the most effective techniques are questions and answers beacause students develop their orthography,their writing,spelling,wording, and reflection.The answers are specifics, the students have to be more prepared and they also develop their understanding..

The least effective technique for me is monologue beacuse students sometimes can't be concentrated and they get nervous so they get lost and can't think about it, frustrating them and there is not reflection.

It also demands long turns which It's boring for the students.

Oral Production

Debate

A debate is a contest, or, perhaps, like a game, where two or more speakers present their arguments intent on persuading one another. Men have been debating with one another since the beginning of time when the serpent first debated with Eve the benefits of eating certain fruits in the Garden. We shall limit ourselves here with discussing formal contest debating between educational institutions, or, in the world of homeschooling, between families that choose to bypass educational institutions and educate their children at home.

link:http://www.triviumpursuit.com/speech_debate/what_is_debate.htm

For Example: The teacher gives to the students a theme and this theme is about abortion , so the teacher divides the class in two groups, in one group the students have to be agree about it and in other one the students have to be disagree. However the students of group A have to give opinions, defending their points of view and the students of group B have to do the same thing and there is a mediator controling the debate.

Speech

The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range of reasoning faculty.

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The art and manner of speaking and conversing.

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Consecutive speech, either written or unwritten, on a given line of thought; speech; treatise; dissertation; sermon, etc.; as, the preacher gave us a long discourse on duty.  

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To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.

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To express one's self in oral discourse; to expose one's views; to talk in a continuous or formal manner; to hold forth; to speak; to converse.

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To relate something; to tell.

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To treat of something in writing and formally.

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To treat of; to expose or set forth in language.

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To utter or give forth; to speak.

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To talk to; to confer with.

For example: At the end of the year of a coourse of fourth year of secundary education must do a speech, so the teacher tell to the students that they have to make a speech about what they have achieved and what they have learnt in the school.However the students are able to understand how to make a speech, they are more trusted, they build sentences, phrases, learning more vocabulary and they understand the grammar structure.

 

http://www.brainyquote.com/words/di/discourse155064.html#ixzz1JB6LlpMo

Text Production

News report

News reports are found in newspapers and their purpose is to inform readers of what is

happening in the world around them. News reports have a certain structure that you need to

follow. This structure is sometimes called the Inverted Pyramid. This is what it looks like:

1. News Reports begin with a catchy HEADLINE.

2. The LEAD PARAGRAPH informs the reader of the most important aspects of the story as

soon as possible. The LEAD PARAGRAPH is often the only part of the story that people

read. Use the 5Ws rule:

• WHO (is involved)

• WHAT (took place)

• WHEN (did it take place)

• WHERE (did it take place)

• WHY (did it happen)

• HOW (did it happen) – only include this if there is space

3. The BODY of the News Report gives more details and provides more information about

the WHY and HOW of the story.

4. The TAIL contains the less important information which is often omitted by the newspaper

editor if there is not enough space left in the newspaper.

Hints

• Your News Report should be easy to understand; every news story should be able

to be read by a twelve year old!

• Try to be fair – include both sides of the story and don’t let your personal opinion

get in the way of reporting the ‘facts’.

http://www.wettropics.gov.au/st/rainforest_explorer/Resources/Documents/8to9/HowTo/NewsReport.pdf

For example:Students have to make a news report about what is happening in the world around them, learning interrogative questions, learning how to build the structure of a news report and they have to investigate about the theme, learning new vocabulary, verbs, auxiliary verbs etc.