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Teaching tips

Teaching tips extends the Language Assistant resource manual with more tips and practical hints. You can find helpful hints and advice under these categories:

Strategies for keeping attention  
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Keeping students' attention and stopping them from getting distracted is a big challenge. Here are some reasons why students’ attention may wander and ways to keep your classes on track.
Recycling Vocabulary  
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Did you know that you have to see a new word at least five times before you can usually use it and include it in your ‘active’ vocabulary?
Ways to encourage more use of English in class  
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Getting students to use English in the classroom is one of the biggest challenges of teaching. At first you might get frustrated when students speak their own language in class. Keep this checklist in mind and it may help.
Dealing with discipline  
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No matter how interesting and well prepared our lesson may be, it can be ruined by a confrontation with students. A bad atmosphere can result. Here are some strategies for ‘telling off’ students and still avoiding confrontations.
Activities for first lessons 2  
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The following activities focus primarily on fluency and are suitable for intermediate level and up. They will give you a chance to get to know the class, break the ice and estimate their language level.

Activities for first lessons 1  
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The activities that you use in your first lessons are very important and are likely to set the tone for the rest of your classes. In your first lessons, it is good to focus on two areas:
Question techniques and strategies  
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The way you use questions to engage with your students can have a big effect on your lesson. Here are some tips to help you get the most out of your questions.
Reluctant talkers 1  
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 Being faced with a class which won't speak can be very disappointing after all your planning. When there are rows of blank faces or questions that nobody will answer it can de motivating.

Getting teenagers to talk  
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Getting teenagers to use English in class and practise their speaking can be a challenging task, but there are some tips and hints which can make the task easier to achieve.
Checking comprehension  
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Making sure that students understand what is happening in the lesson and that they have understood the language you have taught them can at times be very difficult. Just asking "Do you understand?" isn't really enough. You need to be sure.
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