Jim Scrivener at IATEFL 2010

Situational Presentations - When I first trained as a teacher, the key technique for teaching grammar and vocabulary was the situational presentation. But over subsequent years this technique rapidly fell from favour, derided as part of the generally criticisms of a Presentation -- Practice approach to teaching. Yet -- I admit to being quite shocked on checking with recently-trained teachers and finding out that the vast majority nowadays have little idea of what a sitpres is or how to do it effectively. In this talk I will recant some of my misspeaks and earlier crimes and suggest why the sitpres needs to be put back at the heart of initial training.

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Education

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• Teaching
• teacher training
• presentation
• TEFL
• IATEFL
• Macmillan English
• ELT
• CELTA

[rachmaninovisthebest]

jim scrivener = god of situational presentations

[moacir2]

The camera should show the screen being presented - maybe even for a little editing show the slide with presenter's voiceover.

[mulliga8]

@jimscriv Hi, I wanted to say thanks for your 'Learning Teaching' book- I taught for 2 years in Japan on JET + then also taught in a few lang schools at home in Ireland, and re-reading it a couple of times, it was v helpful- even with thinking about my own learning for a masters- I'll be curious to have a look at the latest offering! best regards