 Good morning everybody. My name is Eleanor Malloy and I'm actually based here in Dublin Business School So I hope I do from proud. None of them are here actually dear. It's nice Thanks guys. I started teaching in 2003 actually. I started teaching in school where Stephen was based so it's nice to see you Stephen and I started working here in 2007 and I teach in the English department with Leo Darcy. I'm the head of studies the DOS and I also teach in the arts department, so I'm teaching students in the journalism and media studies so my main aim really with the students and I'll talk about this with the intercambio is Speaking I like to speak also I mentioned which will come into the the idea is that I work on there radio station Dublin City FM Everybody listens into the radio station. I like radio and I do that show once weekly it's a live show I had Peter on as one of my guests Friday morning So I do like to talk and I try and encourage my students to do the same and to be able to speak with fluency I'm not going to ask you to stand up and do any dancing today Or do any singing also some people like it. I teach the older the third level students So I think you've got to ask them to get up and do a bit of a dance. They be looking at you You know, it's good though to get them to get up and move around So intercambio what exactly is intercambio? It's intercultural exchange not just on The language of course we're focusing on English, but not just the focus is on the language. I Want to try and get them to talk. I want to try and get them engaged I want to get them interested in a topic and I like to kind of pull together ideas and Drawing in the kind of what I'm doing on the radio as well Anything that's newsworthy anything that's in the news that anything that's in a but like buzz The people are talking about Controversial, let's just say I'd like to bring controversy too much obviously to be quite sensitive depending on the line on the students where they come from But how I'm going to get them to talk and that's my main aim And I obviously have to have a lot of variety in in the classroom They are third level you need to try and challenge them a little bit and I get them thinking I don't want to do all the thinking I bring the top against the classroom and I get them to roll to go with it And how can I prepare them obviously I have to focus on parts of the language you have to prepare them with their vocabulary So we do a lot of kind of brainstorming in the class Before we I suppose launch into the whole topic of what we're doing. So I'll bring the topic in right on board On the board also just to take him from the students And what would you associate with this topic and they all kind of will start speaking or hopefully you'll get them to Kind of speak it's one that might raise some eyebrows on what does it mean? So you may even have to explain exactly what the topic is you're going to be talking about Depending on the level of the students What are the kind of issues that you could possibly have within the classroom Of course many of us who have been teaching will always kind of have find an issue Under problem and some of the ideas of some of the issues that you do have would be The levels now I normally would have mixed levels in my class So how do you do with that you do break them down within you know elementary beginners it's really what I have beginners But the intermediate upper intermediate and so forth. I like to mix them up And I find this helps the student learn more Why because they kind of they help each other? I think that the idea that they can kind of push each other along They can correct each other and I actually openly encourage the students to correct each other It's not just me Standing over them because they might get a little bit more You know distance a bit shy if they see me constantly, you know correct them correct them correct you Which I have to do some of it of course But I like them to to you know to help each other along and I do openly encourage it within the groups And I divide the groups into smaller groups into pairs depending on the numbers and But it does get them to kind of come out of their shell a little bit You do get students also who are quite shy That's going to be probably that can also be related to their nationality as you may know if you've taught people from Brazil They're great students some of the students for their countries are not great But they will openly talk you can bring any topic into them and they will just go with it It's actually sometimes you have to even stop and talking they as you probably are aware of the Brazilians However, if you kind of come across cultures like Asian They find it very difficult maybe to open it and that is a cultural thing and that is something where you have to kind of Give them confidence tell them it's okay to make mistakes Actively encourage mistakes if you can or if they want because they're one of the things they're afraid of making mistakes They're afraid of and I suppose making fools themselves in some respect they that's what they think But you have to try and get them to think it's okay to make mistakes. It's okay to speak It's okay to have an accent. It's okay that we you know, we are gonna, you know actively help each other And I think also in relation to the the cultures some of the topics I have to be quite careful on what I choose not too careful because as I said before I want to try and Raise their kind of I want to get their opinions. I want them to talk. I want to debate I want them to you know have issues what I'm talking about and this it does work And as I mentioned also the the vocabulary there will be a limitation and as I said the brainstorming does work a lot And I do help them say something or give them alternative ways of saying so they might use the same phrase again and again I go hold on why don't we you know say the different way we put the phrase or something more We use text box or text books in classes a lot I kind of say and I may be Stephen kind of relate to this like down with the textbook We're very focused on textbooks and how we speak do we speak you know? Hello. How are you? I am fine. Thank you Okay, yeah, we do but I mean where there is a lot of colloquial phrases that they don't learn through a textbook And I like to kind of throw the phrase up, you know, give them idioms give them metaphors give them ideas about different ways We can use and I'll give you an example of the day in class. I was teaching the students how to say, you know They were saying oh, it's a problem. Oh, it's I kept they kept repeating the word problem And I'd say okay, in other words, we can use issue. What about the word hassle? Have you ever heard the word hassle and they're like, no, how can we use the word art with the word hassle in our Context we can say, you know, I said the next time you have a class with one of the other guys My rick who teaches them I said when my rick asks you to do something you turn around to mark and say no hassles mark So they I've actually got a text of mark there. I'm on Saturday said no hassles. Oh, this is great They're using us is when you learn it and when you when I teach you the phrase I want you to use it and throw it out there and use it in context And they think it's great that they're learning this colloquial kind of phrases and you but they're brought into class Going down to cultural sensitivity yet. There is Obviously, I have to be quite respectful of their cultures but I kind of draw on this kind of sensitivity and I kind of think okay, what will raise the bar What will they be go really you're going to talk about that? So I'm going to talk about some of the topics in a moment that we've I've used and But so I said the main thing is contribution. How do I get the students to contribute into class? How do I build our confidence? It's it's all a personal thing each student is going to take their time It'll take a while. They have to find their step. They have to find what motivates them They have to find Themself to be able to speak and once you can get there by different means You've done your job and once at the end of it that they're they're using their English that they are you're teaching them They're actively talking Then you're there. You're nearly there. You just have to get them to try and look and as I mentioned also peer correction and I Always kind of even for doing presentations in the class I'll ask the students to have a notepad and pen and take notes on the other speakers and actually Actively give them feedback about what the mistakes they've made how they could improve It's not just me who's giving it and they love that they kind of think it's kind of competitive in some way And and it has worked in the past The group dynamic as I said depending on the numbers the pair we're depending on the nationalities Depending on the levels if I have mixed nationalities I'm going to obviously mix them as much as I can if I have the Brazilians and some Chinese or the Korean French they like to talk They're they're quite easy Europeans Germans have quite a good level of English generally But I try and mix as I said the levels with the nationalities and all mixed up and it works quite well And so what is open for discussion? What is topical? What is going to be of interest now? Of course you can't interest everybody one person's gonna be mad into soccer and other Person's gonna be into fashion obviously depending I've been quite sexist here, but the girls do like talking about shopping and things But what is it that's going to overall try and get them to? Debate I'm hoping that there's going to be an argument in the class Obviously, you know no punches or anything like this But I don't want them to walk out of the class either, but I'm gonna ask them to try you know Well, do you agree with that? No, I don't agree with that and you find that they were going to argue depending on their culture and where they're from And I'm gonna talk about some of the topics that I've used and they've worked quite well also in the class So some topics of interest which I have used open knowing up I have to learn about the students I have to get to know the students I have to find out what you know what gives them what what you know drives them What are their what are their interests and I have a feeling and this might give me some idea Cultural stereotypes what you know, they will talk they they present to me who they are where they're from What's culturally except in their country what they do in an everyday basis what their feelings are about you know Even an Ireland come to Ireland. Do you find this culture very different to yours? Yes, we do What do you find different you will see people from I have a lot of Kuwaiti students at the moment They the concept that we would you know openly, you know go to pubs and that we drink beer It's just like okay. They probably see throw aware that our culture is quite different to theirs But in their country you can't openly buy alcohol and that's something that they get a strange go to find It's strange for women to be drinking alcohol and drunk women in Ireland No, no, so it's like Really just a one. Yeah, that's quite yeah, it's quite unusual. I think yeah So society social segregation the other day we did a topic on em the Syrian the civil war in Syria and asylum seekers and How you know that they may be coming to a country if they're accepted into the country How you know opening borders is it a good thing where they agree with this? You know we were talking about in their country the different cultures that are they very much You know settled in a community. That's not part of their community And do they you know do they accept them as part of their own to become you know part of their citizens? Can they get citizenship and they were telling me all about their different ways? What do you think of you know what here would have the issue maybe with the Roman gypsies? And they didn't understand why we would not be accepting them was just and it opened a whole area for discussion And also I showed them a short documentary Which was quite about be ten minutes was like maybe bring in the beginning to show what they think of this from maybe some of you are aware of Online device. Maybe you might put vise news or vise.com They do lots of short documentaries really really good kind of cutting-edge documentaries, so I found one on the The asylum seekers trying to get come over in on the boats and these kind of you know The death boats and things like that and people were shocked at the images They saw but that was it that was good because they opened up the whole idea of asylum seekers and what we should do for them And I'm just going to see running at a time blah blah blah And also addictions that maybe works obviously depending on the on the cultures. I've done that Fads and crazes. I don't know if any of you aware. We had an interview in the radio During the summer of this new fad was called morning gloryville. It's called. It's kind of an early morning breakfast rave Some of you probably aware and it's kind of very hippie kind of you know hipsteria I suppose and I showed them a short documentary on that and I said what do you think of that? Would you do that would you take part? Some of them were like, but there's no alcohol involved. I'm like no and they were like really? Yeah, so I think some of them like kind of liked the idea of it, you know But it's kind of you know strange when I said would you would do something at this in your country go to a rave? That's like seven o'clock before and they thought this is great, you know, so Talked about marriage was a great topic because Our kind of laws on marriage and divorce that kind of opened up ideas But also Middle Eastern their culture some of that the men are allowed to have seven wives and The women only one husband and we open to this really what do you think of that? You know and then the other cultures were like and the resilience in the class were like wow, that's great Isn't it for you guys and blah blah blah so that opened up a whole you know Interest so I just kind of threw the topic at them. I let them roll with it What do you think of this but that much think of this and it just it was great and The media we talked about that. I kind of love anything that's in the news I I don't want to get them reading too much. It's all about the speaking So it's more what's in the news? What are we talking about get them to even choose a new story and to get them to talk about the news story? So kind of gets them up to speed what's going on in our country what's going on out there? So they're not kind of closed in to their whole culture because they kind of find they all stick together But you want them to kind of educate them in a way actively to get them reading get them kind of looking at what they They're you know their interests are gun laws and crime punishment of capital punishment We believe in capital punishment and that kind of opened up but also something else for discussion Okay, so my sources of information that I have used and I do use maybe some of you maybe can give me some ideas What I can use in the future News reports breaking news the journal there the journals great because it's got kind of short snippets of news And I maybe bring the article talk to them about the article If I do ask them to very rare to do any reading They would just it'd be to be quite short to be edited versions of the articles. I'll bring in As I mentioned before this is an excellent if any of you are trying to you know get some topics or some ideas for discussion Vice news is excellent. I have to say I've kind of just discovered this and the documentaries online or they're free And you can just they they I think every week or so they they produce new documentaries are quite good Sorry really that's quite interesting. Yeah. Yeah, it's have you have you did it. Yeah, it's good Brilliant and the book which I've referred to this book as the book that just keeps giving is to booze and issues Maybe some of you use and every time I pick up to booze and issues I'm like great that they just always have a great topic and they're always very topical always great for discussion always But you know to boo topics to boo issues Amazing I'm sure a lot of you are quite aware if you've been teaching to booze issues is great discussion book for the type of topics in doing and So and also then as I said before at the radio what I do on radio I take them in to the classroom as well, and they think this is great. This is like something This is something we can use. This is something topical and this kind of raises their awareness If they haven't been and get some talking and getting them to culturally exchange, which is the whole idea of the intercambia. Thank you