Hands up, who did their homework?

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Say a little Prayer by Aretha Franklin(appears in NEF PI page 93)

Did you like the song? Tell your partner

•your favorite song•your least favorite song•a song that makes you happy •a song that makes you sad•song that reminds you of someone•a song that reminds you of somewhere•a song that reminds you of a certain event •a song that you know all the words to•a song that you can dance to•a song that makes you fall asleep

Which do you think it is?

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1. Talk about a song from the list2. What’s the best excuse you have given or heard

for not doing your homework? 3. How important is homework? For you? For your

students?

Stand up, go find someone you don’t know. Go introduce yourself and ask…

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1. How important is homework? For you? For your students

2. Why do you set homework?

3. What kind of homework do you set / can you set?

4. Do you like marking homework?

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1. Students would rather get told off or copy 2. Homework is seen as a punishment or irrelevant 3. Homework is too mechanical making it easy to copy4. Homework is seen as boring / difficult / too easy5. Leftovers = undesirable bits and pieces not finished

in class6. Students see English as ‘work’ and don’t want it

encroaching on their free time! 7. Many times homework assesses nothing but

organizational behavior.

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“The number one problem with homework is that they just don’t do it”

Prodromou and Clandfield – Dealing with difficulties

useful, relevant, interesting and varieddifferent ability/learning style groupschallenging but achievableconsolidate classwork, not replicate it. tasks which are nearer to real life use of languagemanageable in terms of timefind out time, preferences, resourcesteacher takes an interest in it

Golden Rules of Homework

What can we set as homework?

Google maps and google street view

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