Serena GammonFeb 17, 20211 min readPresent in Style - Beginning English PowerpointI love making powerpoints. They lend themselves to visuals. It's easy to add music and video to them. Plus - you can project them onto...
Serena GammonNov 17, 20203 min readImagine UP #2 - Graphics for a Lesson PlanYou've already seen a lesson on "UP is higher on a vertical axis." But what if that axis becomes a path? We now access the metaphor: ...
Serena GammonNov 17, 20203 min readImagine UP #1 - Graphics for a Lesson PlanIf you want to create a graphic for the classroom you have two choices: abstract image, or descriptive image. The abstract image is an...
Serena GammonNov 10, 20202 min readCore Meaning and Clay Modeling: A Lesson PlanI think clay modeling is an excellent way to really visualize the core meaning of a particle/adverb/preposition, and then creatively...
Serena GammonNov 10, 20203 min readClay Modeling - Serrano-Lopez, 2003If you have children in kindergarten or first grade, you might have already seen this technique used. Instead of reading words or saying...
Serena GammonNov 9, 20202 min readIllustrating Polysemy: Go on Butterfly! (Lesson Plan)Most phrasal verbs are polysemous, meaning that they have more than one meaning. Let's explore this starting with the very first verb...
Serena GammonNov 9, 20202 min readBenjamin White's Teaching ModelBenjamin White (2012) proposed a new cognitive approach for teaching phrasal verbs. His lesson plan looks something like this: Reorient...