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Chapter 5: Standing in the Spotlight: Presenting to the Class
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Whatever you have on the board should be legible and logical. Some good practices for board work are:
✓ Writing in a straight line.
✓ Using different colours.
✓ Dividing the board into sections if you have slightly different fields to consider.
✓ Stepping back to check spelling and punctuation.
If you’re a bit poor at spelling, have dictionaries in the classroom and encour-
age students to check words for you as you write.
You can use the board quite a few ways to make meaning clearer through dia- grams in the Presentation stage. For example, use diagrams like the one in Figure 5-6 to show clearly the relationship between items of vocabulary, including sub- ordinate groups or categories. You can have students add words to each group to demonstrate that they understand. It’s a fairly simple diagram to copy down too.
Fruit pear
Fish salmon
Vegetables carrot
FOOD GROUPS
Figure 5-6:
Showing relation- ships on the board.
Meat chicken
Carbohydrates pasta