Comments on: Breathing holes http://lessonstream.org/2011/11/21/breathing-holes/ Formerly TEFLClips, ELTON award winner. By Jamie Keddie. Sat, 18 May 2013 12:16:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Jamie Keddie http://lessonstream.org/2011/11/21/breathing-holes/comment-page-1/#comment-6398 Jamie Keddie Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:14:51 +0000 http://lessonstream.org/?p=3171#comment-6398 Thanks Jonny
Actually the current activity (Elf story) uses the same device. I started calling it a Storytelling gapfill. Organic gapfill sounded too rude I think!
Jamie :)

]]> By: Jonny Lewington http://lessonstream.org/2011/11/21/breathing-holes/comment-page-1/#comment-5738 Jonny Lewington Sun, 03 Feb 2013 16:44:49 +0000 http://lessonstream.org/?p=3171#comment-5738 What a great idea – the ‘organic gap fill’! I used it for this lesson, it was amazing! But I’ve also used the activity for different lessons, it’s a really good type of gap fill which really gets them all thinking, is easy to prepare and do, and resource light.

]]> By: Jamie Keddie http://lessonstream.org/2011/11/21/breathing-holes/comment-page-1/#comment-788 Jamie Keddie Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:57:00 +0000 http://lessonstream.org/?p=3171#comment-788 Gobsmacked!
What a great word. And what a great aim for a lesson plan. Imagine if you wrote that on your lesson plan under aims: to gobsmack my learners! Why not? Much better than to ‘teach the second conditional’.
Yes – I agree that good material like this can do the gobsmacking for us.
Thanks for the comment Paul and congratulations on the good lesson
Jamie :-)

]]> By: paul http://lessonstream.org/2011/11/21/breathing-holes/comment-page-1/#comment-786 paul Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:40:30 +0000 http://lessonstream.org/?p=3171#comment-786 Hi Jamie,

I’ve just tried out this activity along with ‘The Blue Whale’ lesson, and they work wonderfully well together. The BBC wildlife documentaries are always abundant with interesting language for the students; the exceptional quality of the filming, the musical score and commentary make up for some memorable moments in and outside class. Anyway, both activities certainly left my young adult intermediate group gobsmacked!
Thanks a million.

]]>