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Integrated skills: Using art in the classroom
A brand-new series of articles by Jamie Keddie, containing lesson plans, teaching tips and suggestions for using art in the classroom. All the articles are designed to allow you to develop the ideas further and to adapt any suggestions to your own students' needs and interests.
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Author: Jamie Keddie Level: advanced, elementary, pre-intermediate, intermediate, upper-intermediate Type: general lesson plan
In the fifth part of his series on using art in the classroom, Jamie Keddie focuses on personal perspectives and interpretation. The lesson ideas include an activity to practise critical thinking, a mental picture dictation, writing an evaluation of a piece of art and talking about 'bad' art.
Author: Jamie Keddie Type: article, general lesson plan
In the fourth part of his series on using art in the classroom, Jamie Keddie focuses on concepts, themes and issues. The three lesson ideas include using a video, a newspaper article and a slideshow to get the students involved in discussing art.
Author: Jamie Keddie Type: general lesson plan
In the third part of his series on using art in the classroom, Jamie Keddie concentrates students' attention on the artists behind the masterpieces. His example lesson plan includes ideas based on artists’ quotations, interviews, photographs and biographies.
Author: Jamie Keddie Level: advanced, elementary, pre-intermediate, intermediate, upper-intermediate Type: general lesson plan
In the second part of his series on using art in the classroom, Jamie Keddie examines the stories behind pieces of art with two sample lesson plans. The first lesson practises passives, while the second incorporates listening and text reconstruction activities.
Author: Jamie Keddie Type: article
In this introductory article to his series, Jamie Keddie talks about reasons for using art in the classroom, along with anticipated problems, and gives tips and suggestions for successfully integrating art into your communicative language lessons.
Author: Jamie Keddie Level: advanced, elementary, pre-intermediate, intermediate, upper-intermediate Type: article, general lesson plan
In the first part of his series on using art in the classroom, Jamie Keddie looks at making use of the aesthetics and content of a piece of artwork to generate language. He gives an example lesson plan that looks at using adjectives to describe several pieces of art by the same artist, Marc Chagall.
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