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  • hello and welcome to the teachers room to show that by teachers, four teachers.

  • I'm sure I'm done on this episode.

  • Stopping is last episode.

  • We showed you some ways to make dictation fun like a running dictation or shouting dictation.

  • In this episode, we're gonna continue with the same thing by showing your fume or ways to make dictation fun.

  • So in addition to running and shouting, you can also dio chain dictation.

  • That's right.

  • Get students to stand in a line in the first front, whispers the message, the next person, and they go down the line until the last person writes down the message.

  • Then they switch places.

  • All the person in front of the but front gets about Yes, something.

  • He went to the body with his ex girlfriend.

  • You can also dio back to back dictation.

  • This is really good because you can't see each other's body language and you can't read lips.

  • This is great practice for students for when they're telephoning and they can't see the person they're talking to.

  • Okay, Shawn, you ready?

  • I am ready.

  • Here we go.

  • John Smith.

  • I was born in Brighton.

  • He lived by the sea on ate fish and chips every day on a goodness may fit.

  • Was it fish and chips?

  • Fish and chips every day?

  • I'm hungry.

  • I'm starving.

  • That's no part of story.

  • And you don't have to just dictate text words.

  • Why not do a picture?

  • Dictation.

  • This is good for things like propositions, adjective shapes, descriptions of people in places.

  • Okay, I have a picture for you, Dan.

  • It's really salary.

  • Okay, So eyes around, face on short, dark hair.

  • Exactly the same.

  • And speaking of picture dictations, here's a great tip that I got from a teacher at I a temple about doing picture dictations with young learners.

  • My teeth for young learners is Ah, a tip for when I'm teaching human body, I put them around the table on day, I give them a piece of paper on the After that, I felt them to draw something like draw head a big head.

  • And after that, something like three arms or two legs or one leg.

  • And I asked them what is in that piece of paper?

  • And they are telling me about the monster after begin color.

  • That monster on the master is gonna be funnier and funnier.

  • afterwards.

  • At the end of the lesson, they are having a little fun now.

  • Those were just a few of our tips, guys.

  • But we know that you guys have some great tips.

  • Send them to us.

  • Exactly.

  • You can find out how to do that on our website.

  • BBC Learning English Baby Sea leading dot com.

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  • Next time, that's it.

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