Please make sure you have

• A piece of folded paper

• Your pen or pencil at the ready

ideas for using images and sound in the language classroom

Before words:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/larahsphotography/2795012899/

Who is Mike Harrison?

ESOL teacherBromley College of Further and Higher Education

Why use drawing and sounds?

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Mike Carla Yohimar

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kurros/150160910/

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Why use drawing and sounds?motor çalıştırılıyor

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Mike Carla Yohimar

Do people literally think in English [...] or are our thoughts couched in some [...] language of thought, and merely clothed in words whenever we need to communicate them to another listener?

Pinker (1994)

Mentalese?

Where are you?

• Play music or sound effect and ask students to imagine where they are

• Give them a situation• Let it run

• Music files from website• http://www.pacdv.com/sounds/

• BBC sound FX CDs

Drawing monsters• Take a piece of paper• Fold into four• Mark neck, waist,

wrists and knees• Draw head, pass on• Draw upper body,

pass on• Draw thighs• Draw feet• Unfold

Drawing monsters

Predict a poem1

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Predict a poemShow images / Predict content /

Watch and reassess

Musical stories• Divide a piece of

paper into quarters• Number 1-4• Play 4 pieces of music• Draw or write words

for whatever comes into your head

Musical stories

Thank yous

• @carlaraguseo and @Yohimar for agreeing to appear in my imaginary Turkish lesson

• @IsılBoy @springrose12 (Tuba) @ErenNesrin @DaveDodgson for help with Turkish translations

• @burcuakyol and everyone involved at ISTEK for the chance to be here

Useful links and bibliography• Free downloadable sound FX– http://www.pacdv.com/sounds/

• Posts on my blog– http://bit.ly/mikedrawing (monsters)– http://bit.ly/mikepoem (First Day At School)

• Pinker, S (1994/2000) The Language Instinct; Penguin pp47-78

Mike Harrison www.mikejharrison.com / @harrisonmike

Mike Harrison’s Blog (Facebook)

Sentence to pictures and back again

• Write a simple sentence pass it on

• Second student draws a picture that represents the sentence, folds and passes on

• 3rd student guesses the original sentence from the picture