1 Unit (4) Advanced searching skills for professional purposes

Unit (4) Advanced searching skills for professional purposes Objective To empower participants with advanced searching skills for professional purposes. Content 1. Google 1.1 Google advanced searching skill 1.2 Google scholar 1.3 Google videos 1.4 Google image 1.5 Google translate 2. E-books on the internet 2.1 library.nu: http://library.nu/ 2.2 englishtips.org: http://www.englishtips.org/ 2.3 Gigapedia: www.gigapedia.com

Dr. Nazmi Al-Masri [email protected]

Technology for Teaching English 2011 English Dept - IUG

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Advanced Searching Skills

A) Lab Task (1)

Familiarise yourself with these advanced searching skills to find the items next to each skill. Save all the items you found in a folder on your flash as you may use them later for assignments. 1.

Google 1.1 Google advanced searching skill: find and save a PDF article on using videos or mobiles in teaching English. 1.2 Google scholar: find and save a PDF article on using drama in teaching English. 1.3 Google videos: find, download and save a video for teachers on how to use songs, story-telling, drama or games in teaching English. 1.4 Google image: find 5 pictures related to teaching these words (taken from Grade 8 and supposed to be unknown to you). 1.4.1

Zucchini (Unit 4: p24)

1.4.2

Giant panda – Seal – whale

1.5 Translate: find how the following statements are translated: 1.5.1

Lend me your ears please

1.5.2

Ladies like good manners

1.5.3

He gave us a word of honor

2. E-books on the internet 2.1 library.nu: http://library.nu/ - find and save a recent book on using technology in teaching English 2.2 englishtips.org: http://www.englishtips.org/ - find and save a recent book on teaching English 2.3 Gigapedia: www.gigapedia.com - find and save a recent book on teaching English



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B) Teaching Task (1) As a Palestinian English language teacher, how you can benefit from these searching skills in promoting your language skills and teaching competences. Think and list 4 pedagogical benefits for using the above searching skills in enhancing your English learning competence and English teaching performance. 1. 2. 3. 4.

Assignment (4) Read carefully all these questions and answer them. 1. Google & E-books: Use Google advanced searching skills you have learned in this course to a. Find, download and save 2 recent books (2002+) related to English language teaching. b. write the following information about the 2 books in a table: Author(s), title, publisher, publication date, publication place. c.

Save the table and the books on a CD and submit it in class.

2. Journals and papers: Use Google advanced searching skills to a. find 2 e-journals related to teaching English language other than the ones you are familiarized with and list them below in a web hyperlinked form and next to each write a brief description of each one of them. b. Search 2 e-journals and find 2 articles related to only one of these 5 topics:

1. Using computer in teaching English 2. using videos in teaching English Dr. Nazmi Al-Masri [email protected]


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3. using PPP in teaching English 4. using email in teaching English 5. using internet in teaching English c. Write the sources of these 2 articles in a table containing: author(s), article title, journal title (Hyperlinked), year of publication, Vol., and issue no. d. Write a summary of the points you learned from these 2 articles in a bulleted form (Your reflection). e. Save the 2 articles and the table on a CD and submit it in class. 3. Google & songs a. Find 2 songs related to some of the lessons in English for Palestine 1-12. b. In a table write the following information about each song: 1. Title 2. Objective 3. The level it suits (1-12) 4. The unit it is related to 5. The link to the song

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