Teacher-training workshops - teenage and adult learners

A typical workshop structure

• Short ice-breaking - partner work 60-seconds non-stop talking (a fluency activity for secondary school)
• Death and the Gardener - listening to a short story, leading to partner work in a structured re-telling of the tale
• Free Melons - listening to a Nasruddin tale - analysing paralanguage - short whole group discussion
• Participants are divided into two groups, each group receiving a skeleton of a different story. In small groups participants prepare a telling of their story, focusing on paralanguage
• All participants are assembled and re-allocated with a partner who has prepared the other story
• Participants disperse to tell their tale and listen to their partner's.
  They offer immediate feedback (Glows and Grows - i.e. what was good, what can be improved)
• Short whole group discussion on the experience of telling

Methodology

• Mr Fox - a hot seat activity
• Old Woman and her Pig - last line race as fluency exercise