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Motivating lessons at NILE

Here I am once again at NILE , in Norwich, England. It's been extremely productive - we'll revamp the stay in England a bit for the next set of students - and also inspiring! But let's just look at the inspiring language aspect and not the inspiring organizational aspect. Today I got to sit in on Mr. Jamie Keddie ( jamiekeddie .com ) and got to focus on two main text-reconstructions activities that I summarize here below: 1) Watch a Youtube short video without sound (e.g. "Procrastination" Tales Of Mere Existence") 2) After watching the video, elicit vocabulary and recreate the story verbally with the learners 3) Teacher has prepared the text in advance. Do some sort of language work with it, such as a running dictation where the learners then have to write the text and put the sentences in the order shown in the video. 4) Learners compare what they wrote with what was provided and correct their answers. 5) Each sentence is written on a blank card. Each lea