High School - 09 - Paralanguage

[jellomando]

I basically took this straight from the JLP Resource book (which, I guess stole it from Valentin Arkov and from this site) and merged it with this online Paralanguage Quiz.

Paralanguage:

• Native Speaker introduces the concept of paralanguage. 5 minutes.
• Native Speaker tries to establish a definition with the students.  5 minutes.
• Students perform Paralanguage Definition worksheet.  10 minutes.
• Native Speaker goes over Paralanguage Definition worksheet with student, filling in any missed details. 10 minutes.
• Students perform Paralanguage Match-up worksheet. 10 minutes.
• Native Speaker goes over Paralanguage match-up. 10 minutes.

Notes:

• When starting off and stumbling around for a definition, try using ‘Are you Hot?’ and ‘Are you Cold?’ since most students already know the respective Panting or Shivering sounds.
• The Paralanguage Definition worksheet is a massive time killer.  Even when the definitions are pre-written on the Power Point presentation, it still takes a couple of minutes per word to go through the process of…
  
  • Asking the students to read the word.
  • Solicit and provide definition.
  • Solicit and provide example sentence.
  Most of the time I ended up skipping the Match-up worksheet and assigning it for homework since the definition activity took up so much time.
• I intended to use the Quiz to as a Bonus, but started using that as  break right after The the Power Point file has the sounds for the online quiz embedded and should not require the *.wav sounds.

• The Power Point file has the sounds from the online quiz embedded within the file.

More information about my lessons can be found here.

[Brian]

* bump *

This is an interesting lesson that might work well for one of the extra classes we'll have after finals, or for an afterschool class. 

I did a version of it for my afterschool class of 9 or 10 middle school students.  It's part of a larger "arc," I guess, of trying to get them to practice conveying emotion while speaking.  Normally they speak in a monotone . . . tone, but through this and my giving praise lesson I'm hoping to change that a little. 

For high school students there's a lot you can do here.  You could probably have them brainstorm different sounds they make when conveying meaning/emotion.  For middle school it was pretty challenging.  The powerpoint got kind of tedious, so I cut it short and didn't go into the quiz.

I'm breaking it into two lessons.  On the first day was introducing paralanguage and the sounds on the powerpoint.  Then we did a few of the sounds on the worksheet, where the students had to write down the meaning and use it in a sentence.  On the second day we'll do a few more of those, and then do the second attached worksheet where the students read the situation and respond with the proper sound.

Anyway, just wanted to bump this in case you wanted to have a look at what jellomando put together.  Go take a look at his other lessons . . . plenty of good stuff you can use or adapt into for middle- and high-school classes.   

[zachmokpo]

I'm going to try it out next week. Great lesson!

[zachmokpo]

It went over very well. Even some of the K teachers were asking about the expressions in the lesson. thanks for sharing.

[Brian]

Here's the lesson from the JLP book, for the sake of completeness.

[zachmokpo]

As a follow up lesson, I had students creats dialogs using 3 of the paralgnuage words.

[andyfoggy]

I tried this today and it was great
I didnt use the PPT attached , I just used a simple one showing each new paralanguage  word as a prompt to get the students talking.
This was with my worst 3rd year middle school class, the dreaded  class of non speakers and it was really funny, all the students and teacher walked away happy after this lesson.
What was really surprising was that the trouble makers actually joined in and made a contribution to the class.
oh and the Korean teacher loved it!!
might try it with my 2nd years next week

[specter13]

I did a lesson on hand gestures and body language this week, I think this will be a great follow up lesson to do next week.

Thanks a lot.

[specter13]

This by far one of the best lessons I have ever done in class. No students are sleeping, students that are always quite are speaking in class and everybody is having fun.

Thanks for this amazing lesson.

[Munchy]

What a great lesson! I will be using it tomorrow on my middle school advanced class. I'm sure they are going to have loads of fun. Thanks!

[jglide]

I just condensed the worksheet in order to save trees. Really good lesson for a low level class. Instead of the matching worksheet I broke them into small groups and gave them slips of paper with situations. They have to come up with the correct paralanguage and then I have them read out loud to the class and the class checks the answers. Just print out page 2 of the pdf if you want to try that.