This webinar will help teachers to support learners’ speaking development using retelling. This valuable and flexible task type provides many opportunities for learners to enhance their oral fluency.

Retelling based on written, audio or visual narratives offers huge scope and rich potential – it raises learner engagement and, most significantly, it enables learners to speak for considerably longer turns than we often expect. This is because the content is already provided, so the cognitive load remains manageable on the second and third iteration.

During the webinar, we will explore how to use retelling effectively, experiment with the range of variables available, and examine the benefits it brings both learners and teachers.

This webinar will help teachers to support learners’ speaking development using retelling. This valuable and flexible task type provides many opportunities for learners to enhance their oral fluency.

Retelling based on written, audio or visual narratives offers huge scope and rich potential – it raises learner engagement and, most significantly, it enables learners to speak for considerably longer turns than we often expect. This is because the content is already provided, so the cognitive load remains manageable on the second and third iteration.

During the webinar, we will explore how to use retelling effectively, experiment with the range of variables available, and examine the benefits it brings both learners and teachers.

Sensations English webinar - The Art and Scope of Retelling by Fran Watkins

Fran has many years’ experience as an ELT author, test-writer, teacher and trainer. She holds a PGCE and MSc TEFL from Aston University and has worked in Europe, the Middle East and Southeast Asia as a teacher and trainer for the British Council and International House. As well as providing in-house teacher training and tutoring on Celta and Delta courses, prior to Covid, Fran taught at Reading University, developing language and methodology skills of Chinese primary and secondary school teachers of English.

Fran Watkins, Teacher trainer, exam and materials writer

 

How Sensations English works

Our lesson resources make equality, diversity inclusion and sustainability a central element of language learning. We recognise learners as multi-competent speakers and multicultural citizens who are eager to share their ideas and engage with others on important topics in their lives.

The high-quality, global, news-based study resources take a person-centred approach, representing diverse cultures and identities across our seven learning themes. The wide range of video and article news reports include interactive games and study tools which connect the issues with students’ language learning.

As all resources are graded at five levels (A2-C1), they make sometimes complex topics accessible to all learners. With Sensations English, it’s easy to explore language features and improve sub-skills using inclusive resources which also help to connect lessons to learners’ own situations and experiences. This helps learners to think about their own contexts and develop their own voices.

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