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      A new day, a new start.
      Submitted by babakartal on 17 January, 2012 - 13:00

      Difficulties of teaching English are being solved by skills of teacher profession. First, you should have your studens interests in the class room. Sometimes I give them some examples about their interests. Suddenly they wake up. Then teaching is easier. That's enough for only that lesson. Every time you should find a proper example.

      When you do it, "a new day, a new start". good lessons :)

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      Rabia Akcay's picture
      Rabia Akcay
      Good point
      Submitted on 17 January, 2012 - 19:25

      It is the same with the adults. If you ask me to talk about politics I may say one or two sentences but if you ask me to talk about my job or something else I like you can't stop me :)

      My students used to like football or horro movies 'saw' they wanted to talk about saw but I couldn't :)

      If they don't personalize the language of course they will get bored. If we don't know our students, they may prepare questionnaires about their likes&dislikes and we can make use of the result :)

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      babakartal
      my blog
      Submitted on 18 January, 2012 - 11:45

      Thanks for your comment..

      gizemunsay's picture
      gizemunsay
      HELLO
      Submitted on 19 January, 2012 - 16:13

       

      I was at Gulfem Aslan’s workshop and she asked us I believe a very intriguing question. She asked: ‘ Do you know the popular terms that your students use these days?’ And we actually could not give a proper answer.

       Sometimes, we teachers and as we get older -well, not that old yet but you know – we do not speak their language anymore like we basically do not know their interests in a way.

       

      And as you say  in order to give examples of things that interests them we should be able to in  a way know their language/the terms they use/their interests,etc. That's I believe the only way that we can give them a proper example as you put it. That's how you engage your students.

       

      But then is it enough to sustain your students' motivation for the rest of the day?

       

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      gizemünsay
      Submitted on 20 January, 2012 - 11:23

      thanks for your comment.