Kalinago blog Tacky? Tasteless - using disasters to encourage speaking
January 18th, 2009
Disasters in the news are great opportunities to get your students talking.
Whenever a major crisis hits the news media, words and facts fly out and students begin embedding statistics about the event in their brains.
If your students are anything like mine, after any major incident, they arrive in the classroom bursting to share what’s happened.
They’re often able to tell, in English- even the lower level students - just how many people were involved, where ‘it’ occurred and the process: the before, during and aftermath.
