Copy of Humanistic Education and TPR Seminar em Portuguese
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Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners TV series.
During this class, I asked a psychology student what topic interests her. She said OCD interests here so we found a show from England, which allowed her to practice listening to different accents then American English! The show involved Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners going to the homes of hoarders to clean! As the TV show gave statistics, I would occasionally stop it and ask her questions about what was said. If she didn’t understand, I’d explain what happened and have her listen for it again. The teacher can occasionally stop the video to ask comprehension questions as well.
Teaching students how to understand words by listening to the context of words that they do understand. For instance there would be the word harsh, dusty or dirty, three words the student didn’t know. I’d repeat the phrases, by emphasising the words that she did understand. I’d then does the word harsh, sound positive or negative in the context. She’d say negative, and I’d say exactly!
For exams such as the TOEFL, listening comprehension and understanding at least the general meaning of a word is essential for such exams. Teaching students these kinds of critical thinking skills is essential, rather than just memorising word meaning, knowing how to use the phrases that come before or after a word that you don’t understand, allows the listener/reading to at least infer about potential meanings!
Here were the two videos we watched from the Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners TV series. I then asked the students to write a short resume of what they learned and what happened.
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Hand out a series of pictures of people, and students need to describe a biography of that person and how they died, based on how a traditional Obituary is written!
Send me the story when you’re done and I can edit it for you and share it on the blog!
Watch this video about FIFA’s World Cup in Brazil, and write an opinion response to it. Even though we don’t have physical class, every week I will post one interesting fun work assignment for those who want to continue practicing English.
Do you agree or disagree with the video? What do you like and not like about it? What do you personally think of the World Cup, FIFA and Brazil? List two or three new things you learned from the video. It doesn’t need to be a long essay, it can be a short paragraph as well! I look forward to hear your reactions!
You can send me what you write up or you can type up your response and post it directly to the comments section of this blog under the title!
Have a great break, and GOOOOO BRAZIL!
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FUNWORK: Tell a story and use as many adjectives as possible in the story with a some partners. The story starts like this. During the World Cup in Cuiaba, the city will be….. 
Transitive Verbs:
are verbs that must be followed by an object.
Transitive Verbs Examples:
| bring | Please bring me a glass of water. | buy | Do not buy hamburgers at that restaurant. |
| cost | My coat cost a lot of money. | get | My children get good grades in school. |
| give | Our family gives gifts at Christmas. | leave | I leave home at 8:00 in the morning. |
| lend | Could you please lend me five dollars? | make | Did you make coffee this morning? |
| offer | My boss offered me a great new job. | owe | I owe you ten dollars. |
| pass | All the students passed the test. | pay | Don’t forget to pay the phone bill. |
| play | Jennifer loves playing the piano. | promise | She promised me she would come to the party. |
| read | They read the newspaper every day. | refuse | The customs officers refused to let me enter the country. |
| send | My girlfriend sends me an e-mail message every day. | show | My neighbour showed me her garden yesterday. |
| sing | Muriel sings songs at karaoke every Sunday night. | take | Travellers take planes or trains to their destinations. |
| teach | Our parents teach us to be kind. | tell | The author tells a good story. |
| write | Tommy writes short stories about the South. | ||
The Intransitive Verb
An intransitive verb has two characteristics. First, it is an action verb, expressing a doable activity like arrive, go, lie, sneeze, sit, die, etc. Second, unlike a transitive verb, it will not have a direct object receiving the action.
Here are some examples of intransitive verbs:
Huffing and puffing, we arrived at the classroom door with only seven seconds to spare.
Arrived = intransitive verb.
James went to the campus cafe for a steaming bowl of squid eyeball stew.
Went = intransitive verb.
To escape the midday sun, the cats lie in the shade under our cars.
Lie = intransitive verb.
Around fresh ground pepper, Sheryl sneezes with violence.
Sneezes = intransitive verb.
In the evenings, Glenda sits on the front porch to admire her immaculate lawn.
Sits = intransitive verb.
Flipped on its back, the beetle that Clara soaked with insecticide dies under the refrigerator.
Dies = intransitive verb.
Some Intransitive Verbs
These verbs do not occur with objects, so they cannot be used in the passive voice.
agree
appear
arrive
become
belong
collapse
consist of
cost
depend
die
disappear
emerge
exist
fall
go
happen³
have¹
inquire
knock (sound)
laugh
lie (recline or tell untruth)
live
look
last (endure)
occur
remain
respond
rise
sit
sleep
stand
stay
swim
vanish
wake²
wait
FUNWORK: Students will choose one famous person, alive or dead. They must research major historical facts about that person and remember them. They should know essential information such as their age, what they did during their life, why they are famous, where they are from? The other students must ask interrogative questions about the famous person, to try an guess who the famous person is.
Ensina Cuiaba 
