Thursday, 25 April 2013

Eve Unt and Maive Salakka's seminar


On Tuesday April 23rd we had a seminar on the theme ˝Games at Language Classes“. The seminar was held by teachers Maive Salakka and Eve Unt. Nine teachers from 4 different schools of Võru County participated. Different card and board games were introduced, some of them even played.

The organisers hope that participants could get some new ideas how to make their students listen to the other students better, to make them read, speak or write without them understanding that they still have to learn but in a different way, more naturally. Hopefully, some patterns are even remembered better if revised for several times. Games help teachers to create context in which the language is more meaningful than ordinary exercises are. The risks of the games are also there, like making noise, but this is one part of learning, making voice and trying to make yourself understood.

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