Humanising Language Teaching
Year 3; Issue 2; March 2001
First and last letter dictation
(Section 5 General revision )
level: post-beginner to intermediate
- Choose a unit reading passage that you worked on 3 to 4 weeks ago.
Dictate between three and four paragraphs of it and ask the students to
only write down the first and last letters of each word, leaving an appropriate
space in between.
- Group the students in threes and ask each person in the triad to read the text to the other two.
Acknowledgement : This dictation idea comes from the set of Gurdjieff practical exercises to be found in On Love and psychological exercises, by A. R. Orage.
