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Moodle 1.9 for Second Language Teaching

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Moodle 1.9 for Second Language Teaching

Overview of this book

That word Moodle keeps cropping up all over the place ñ it's in the newspapers, on other teachers' tongues, in more and more articles. Do you want to find out more about it yourself and learn how to create all sorts of fun and useful online language activities with it? Your search ends right here. This book demystifies Moodle and provides you with answers to your queries. It helps you create engaging online language learning activities using the Moodle platform. It has suggestions and fully working examples for adapting classroom activities to the Virtual Learning Environment. This book breaks down the core components of a typical language syllabus ñ speaking, pronunciation, listening, reading, writing, vocabulary, grammar, and assessment ñ and shows you how to use Moodle 1.9 to create complete, usable activities that practise them. Each chapter starts with activities that are easier to set up and progresses to more complex ones. Nevertheless, it's a recipe book so each activity is independent. We start off with a brief introduction to Moodle so that you're ready to deal with those specific syllabus topics, and conclude with building extended activities that combine all syllabus elements, making your course attractive and effective. Building activities based on the models in this book, you will develop the confidence to set up your own Moodle site with impressive results.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Moodle 1.9 for Second Language Teaching
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Activity 4: Prediction activity using Lesson


Aim: Help students predict a recorded text

Moodle modules: Lesson

Extra programs: None

Ease of setup: ***

It's often challenging for students to follow conversations between native speakers. One way of helping them attune themselves to natural conversation is to get them to predict what people will say. The Lesson module allows us to set up such a prediction activity in much the same way as we did in Chapter 6, Reading Activities, Activity 7, where students anticipate text that they read.

For this activity, record a conversation. Write out a transcript. Use the Lesson module to provide multiple-choice questions on what comes next.

Here's how to do it

See Chapter 6, Reading Activities, Activity 7 for instructions on setting up the Lesson module. In the Page contents box, replace text with recordings using the Moodle player or NanoGong. Moodle player is more appropriate if you are using pre-existing recordings. NanoGong might be more convenient if you...