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ÑA Multiple Intelligences Road To An ELT Classroom
There follows a list of aetivities designed to develop the eight intelligenees. You mightlike to try to eategorise them under the eight different headings before you check theanswers to see if you were ccrrect.
• background music• charts• eompleting worksheets• diagrams• group diseussions• leamer diaries• mindmaps• personal goal setting• reading articles & books• self-study• videos
• brain gym• circle dancing• craftwork• giving presentations• groupwork• listening to lectures• pairwork• problem solving• reflective leaming activities• songs• visualisations
• brainstorming• classifying &
categorising activities• guided díscovery• jazz ehants• logic puzzles• peer teaehing• projeet work• role-play• storytelJing• wordgames
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Unit 1: Learning Styles And Intelligence Types
The following Multiple Intelligences Checklist for EFL students is adapted from anartic1e by Mary Ann Christison published in !he MEXTESOL (Mexican braneh of theAmerican Teachers 9JEnglisll To Speaker» OJOther Langllnges) [ournal, When the originalartic1e was published, only seven intelligenee types had been identified. More recently,the naturalist intelligenee has been added to the Iist and the eheeklist has been rewrittento take this into account.
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Multiple Intelligences Checklist. Rank each statement 0,1, or2. Write O if you disagree with the statement and write 2 if youstrongly agree. Write 1 if you are somewhere in between.
linguistic Intelligence
_ 1. r like to read books, magazines and newspapers_ 2. I consider myself a good reader_ 3. r like to tell jokes and stories_ 4. r can remember people's names easily_ 5. r like to recite tongue twisters
~ 6. I have a good vocabulary in my native language
Logical-Mathematical Intelligence_ 1. I often do calculations in my head
_ 2. I'm good at chess andlor draughts_ 3. r like to put things into categories_ 4. r like to play number games
_ 5. r love to play around with computers
- 6. r ask lots of questions about how things work
Spatial Intelligence_ 1. I can read maps easily_ 2. r enjoy art activities_ 3. r can draw well
- 4. Videos and slides really help me to learn new information_ 5. r love books with pictures
_ 6. r enjoy putting puzzles together
Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence
- 1. It's hard for me to sit quietly for a long time
- 2. It's easy for me to copy exactly what other people do- 3. I'm good at sewing, woodwork. building or mechanics_ 4. I'm good at sports
- 5. I enjoy working with my hands - working with doy or model-making, for example
_ 6. r enjoy physical exercise
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