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    52: a year of subversive activity for the ELT classroom
    52: a year of subversive activity for the ELT classroom
    52: a year of subversive activity for the ELT classroom
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    52: a year of subversive activity for the ELT classroom

    By Lindsay Clandfield

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    This is an activity book for English language teachers. 52 asks the question: can one new teaching idea per week make a difference? The authors use radical texts, subversive images and lateral thinking to suggest new ways of doing things inside the classroom and to prompt teachers and learners to think differently about the world outside the classroom.

    The book contains 52 activities that fit loosely into the following categories.

    Disruptions – ways of subtly disrupting the class dynamic to challenge existing power structures and explore alternatives
    Discussions – prompts and stimuli for conversations with a difference
    Images – subversive spoof ads from the media foundation Adbusters
    Language – activities critically exploring prejudice in language, slogans, social media and even English for protest signs
    Action – activities to prompt and empower your students to take action outside the classroom
    Scenarios – tired of the same old business English situations? Here we explore real-life functional language with a twist!

    52 is written by Lindsay Clandfield and Luke Meddings, co-founders of the round - an independent collective of authors in language education materials.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLindsay Clandfield
    Release dateFeb 17, 2012
    ISBN9781465960191
    52: a year of subversive activity for the ELT classroom
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    Lindsay Clandfield

    Lindsay Clandfield and Luke Meddings are co-founders of the round, a collective of authors and creatives in language teaching materials. The round's first book on Smashwords is 52 - a year of subversive activity for the ELT classroom.

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      52 - Lindsay Clandfield

      Introduction

      This book is not for everyone.

      52 originally began life as an idea for a blog. We wanted to focus on critical, subversive and minimal stimulus for language classrooms – the kind of stuff that doesn’t usually get past the publishers’ radar. Luke had been exploring the use of minimal stimulus to prompt conversation in his work in Dogme ELT, and Lindsay had been developing a more critical approach to mainstream materials writing.

      In addition, we were living through a time of great change and upheaval. Austerity measures, economic crises, cutbacks in education and other public services, joblessness, continuing environmental damage, and at least two disastrous wars were just some of things we were witnessing every day on the news and in the streets. Yet we both felt that much of what was going on in language classrooms was happening in a comfortable little bubble, divorced from reality.

      We started experimenting with ideas: things we had tried ourselves as teachers or as participants in workshops. We began to look outside the field of ELT at what our colleagues in anti-racist education, peace education and education for social justice were doing. Slowly, the idea of a blog with a few activities developed into something bigger.

      You are looking at the result: a year’s worth of critical, subversive and unconventional activity for language teachers – if you do one of these things per week.

      But be warned: some of the activities may shock you, some may shock your learners. We don’t aim to shock people just for the sake of it, but a jolt is sometimes what is needed to wake us up from our delusions. And we feel that, sometimes, that is the responsibility of the teacher.

      If you don’t feel comfortable with this, or if you feel it is your job to teach only the language, and leave any political or social ideas at the door, then perhaps it would be best to leave this book well alone. It is not one-size-fits-all; there is plenty of that for language teachers in print and online.

      If you think otherwise, turn the page and let’s get started.

      How to use 52

      There’s no ‘right’ way to use 52. The activities don’t come in any order, so one way to use this book is to just dip in and see what appeals – although you can always start at the first activity and work your way through numerically.

      But this isn’t meant to be a book that you ‘work through’. Some of the activities require a certain amount of set-up, others less; but each is worth thinking about over a cup of coffee or a glass of wine. They aren’t last-minute lessons to grab

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