oral presentation
May 2, 2024
It’s May, and you’ve got extra time on your hands. Perhaps the proficiency assessment is over, or the last unit went faster than expected. Maybe signing ceremonies or ring ceremonies or a horse race (yeah, I live in Louisville) is messing with the schedule and making it so one period of Level 2 has an […]
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October 16, 2009
When you’re testing someone to place them in a certain level at a language school, you’re supposed to push them until their language breaks down, and the best way to do that is to stop asking “is your mom tall” and start asking “what do you think about interracial marriage?” The assumption is that when […]
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August 26, 2009
Today my AP students will do what they do every Wednesday–give a 2-minute oral presentation based on a print source and an audio source, involving some type of synthesis and persuasion. Our current unit (in my own curriculum) is called “Un Pasado que Me Construyó” and is intended to practice and develop command of the […]
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