Dictation Notes

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DICTATION August 22, 2003-08-30 Tutor: Edna Equihua Notes taken by: Liliana Borbolla Romero I.

CORRECTION TECHNIQUES:

A. SHADOW DICTATION • • • • • • B.

Choose a writer and a listener Teacher reads a paragraph (normal speed) While one writes the other just listens. Then have both reconstruct the story Teacher reads the story again so they can compare their version For mixed ability classes, you can use their skills putting weak-strong students.

PASSING THE BUCK • • • • • • •

Teacher dictates one sentence The students pass the paper to the right Then everyone underlines the mistakes they find in the sentence. Teacher dictates de second one. Students pass the paper to the right Now they underline the mistakes on the second sentence and correct the ones in the previous one. Teacher-whole class review all the sentences dictated.

C. WORD FIELDS a. Teacher dictates b. One student writes, the other monitors c. Then in pairs you ask them to circle all the words related to certain topic. EXAMPLE:

Find the words related to sports She sat in the corner. She took a sip of ther coffee and spat it out because he was foal. Her goal that evening had been to finish her essay, but there had been constant interruptions. For a start , her boyfriend had dropped in. she had heard him whistling as he came up the path and jumped up like a shot to let him in. But they had had a raw that had just made him very defensive. He had just put off what he called his wall and being ready for every move he made. As he thought about it she tried to block his memory from her mind .

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SOUNDS, SPELLING AND PUNCTUATION 1. SILENT LETTER

a) WRITE THE WORDS AND UNDERLINE THE SILENT LETTERS. • • • • • • •

Christmas Walk Platform Knee Sandwich Wrong Half

b) WITE THE NUMBER OF LETTERS AND THE SILENT LETTER: NO. OF LETTERS 6 9 8 8 5 2

SILENT LETTER h h ugh P l

WORD DICTATED honest character daughter cupboard could

LISTENING FOR SOUND/ STRESSED SYLLABLE

TEACHER SAY WORDS. STUDENTS WRITE ON THE APPROPRIATE COLUMN. FIRST SYLLABLE Coffee Forty Record

SECOND SYLLABLES canteen Record cassette

ALTERNATIVE: Add a third column and ask them to write there, words stressed in the 3rd. syllable.

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3. TELEPHONE a) TELEPHONE TREE. (SENTENCE DICTATION) The teacher makes a telephone tree in class and then he/she calls the two first students in the tree and dictates one sentence. Then the 2 students have to call their assigned classmates in the tree and ask them to add one word to the sentence they dictate him. The last student gets the complete sentence and brings it to class, or e-mails it to the teacher, or both. EXAMPLE Original sentence:Property is theft 2. Property is really theft (added word: really) EDNA

55 80- 24 78

GREGORIO 319-35-09

LILIANA 317-51-66 EDGAR 322-24-52

GERMAN 315-36-78

MONICA 102-32-16 RUTH 3-11-22-88

GENY 315-29-12

BETTY 312-23-45

ALTERNATIVE:

This same technique can be used for writing, using the e-mail instead of the telephone.

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4. THE SENSES • •

They take dictation and express feelings. Teacher dictates words and they sort them out according to the sense (s) that work awakens into their feelings. I SEE Church computer cloud rainbow rabbit

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I HEAR yesterday typewriter radio rain music

I TASTE pie rabbit

I SMELL pie rabbit

I FEEL typewriter music rain rabbit

When they finish, they can sit in pairs and compare their tables and discuss their feelings about the words, why did they put them in the columns. 5.

THINK ABOUT MEANING

QUANTIFYING SENTENCES Teacher dictates sentences using adjectives. Students have to add a quantifier to th adjective used. EXAMPLE: SENTENCE DICTATED He gets home lae in the evening They live in a large flat It saves time She’s overweight He spends a lot of time in the bathroom It’s efficient She gets up fairly early at the weekend It’s noisy It often breaks down 6.

QUANTIFIERS ADDED 7 pm 100 mts flat Many hours 20 kilos 1 hour a day very 7 am 100 decibels Every week

HIM or HER?

DICTATE LEAVING BLANKS SAYING “mmmmm” THEY’LL HAVE TO FILL IN WITH “HIM, HER, SHE or HE”. 1. _______is a good goal keeper. 2. ________was 80 and lived alone, but ________lives happily knitting all day long.

5 3. They made __________study medicine. 4. ______went to visit________in prison. ALTERNATIVE: Dictate a story asking them to fill in the blanks with verbs

7. ASSOCIATIONS

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Set the group in pairs . Student 1 and student 2 Dictate 2 words that are similar, student 1 writes # 1 and student 2 # 2 They add 3 words related to the word.

EXAMPLE: PERSON 1 Wood dark, trees, chair Dear wife, Sir, sweetheart Be off, good, tired

PERSON 2 Would llike, modal, might Deer brown, bambi, fast Bee buzz, honey, sting

(SEE HANDOUT ASSOCIATIONS)

8. TEXT RECONSTRUCTION (DICTOGLOSS) GROUP SETTING: who is sitted. • • • • • •

(PREFERABLY IN HORSE-SHOE) Pairs. Student A stands in front of Student B

Teacher reads the paragraph. Student A just listens Student B writes what he can Then in pairs they reconstruct the paragraph In fours thy compare their writing Students write the paragraph on the blackboard to check their work, or teacher shows a wallchart with the paragraph previously written..

EXAMPLE: We will no longer accept your doctor’s statement as proof of unfitness, as we consider that if you are able to go to the doctor, you are able tocome to work. 9. MUTUAL DICTATION (INFORMATION GAP) • • •

Student A has one part of the dictation Student B has the other A has to make questions to find out the missing words in his paper. B tells A the words and then they switch. B asks A dictates.

(See handout TEXT B/TEXT A)

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10. USING THE STUDENTS’ TEXT • • •

Teacher elicits adjectives from sts. & write them on the blackboard. Students choose 4 adjectives they like and write them under 2 columns: DIFFICULT, USEFUL. Then they go with someone in the class and tell his adjectives and the other writes the opposite.

Handsome long innocent guilty ugly

tall

sick near

lovely

green

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11. WORS ON A PICTURE • •

Teacher asks students to draw their favorite place when they were children. Then dictates words and they have to write them in the place that they think fit.

EXAMPLE