• Review the vocabulary again. This time, state the commands while the trainees respond. (Remain seated.)
  • Remember: You are the only one who will be speaking. The trainees are just to listen and follow along.

A demonstration of TPR using the same vocabulary words in Indonesian is also available on videocassette. Training By Design: Total Physical Response. Laubach Literacy Action. (Syracuse, New York: New Readers Press, 1990.)
ISBN: 1 –56420 – 139 - 2

Activity: Part 2

  • Using the TPR handout, continue the exercise. Follow the directions laid out in the tutor training manual entitled, TPR with written commands.

Conclude by discussing the other uses for TPR. Draw attention to the example lesson in the tutor training manual and the section, Using TPR with children.

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C: Information Gaps

  • Introduce information grids and their intended audience.
  • Show overhead, Information Gaps.
  • If time permits, have the trainees do the information gap exercise
    (written for Carine) from their manual.
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D: The Language Experience Approach (LEA)

  • Introduce LEA and it's intended audience.
  • Show overhead, Basic Steps in using LEA.
  • Discuss the basic steps; let the trainee know that the steps provided in the tutor training manual are fairly specific. The overhead is much more general.