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Tips Watch teachers in the classroom and out in our Tips series of videos. You will find new videos regularly added with new ideas and issues for you to consider. Why not watch a video and tell us what you think? |
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Group secretaryTo motivate everyone to take part in a group discussion and listen to each other, I sometimes ask them all to be secretarys and take notes on what they discuss and any opinions people in the groups have or decisions they make. |
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Register ideaI teach small groups of kindergarten children. When I take the register and call out a student's name, I ask the student to sing a little song they know in their own language or in English before moving on to the next student. |
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Proverbs and quotationsFor years I have been writing quotations, proverbs and statements on the top left side of the board. |
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Improving the classroomHave students decorate the classroom with projects on movie stars, athletes, family, weather, etc. |
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Developing student autonomy"Teaching English to high school students in regular classes and as a facilitator in a self-access centre within the same institution has led to some experimentation on promoting autonomy in the classroom. |
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Getting to know new coursebooksI find it is always worth taking time to explore a new coursebook when we start working with it so I sometimes take a whole class to do this and prepare a variety of activities for my learners including quizzes and mini-presentations on features of the new material. |
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Group secretaryTo motivate everyone to take part in a group discussion and listen to each other, I sometimes ask them all to be secretarys and take notes on what they discuss and any opinions people in the groups have or decisions they make. |
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Vocabulary in everyday lifeTo try and make learning words a reaL "LIFE" situation, I ask pupils to keep a list of all the words they encountered in the previous week. |
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Celebrity interviewI am an English trainer at Whitefield Academy, and I tried one activity which became an exercise for fluency. I have ten students in each class so I make students, taking it in turns, be a "Celebrity": an actor, sportsperson, a singer etc.. |
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Learning phonemic symbolsRemember that all activities for learning phonemic symbols must involve 'listen, look and say'. |
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Using the phonemic chartTeachers often disagree on whether or not to use the phonemic chart in their lessons. Watch Peter and Clare argue for and against, then why not tell us what you think. |
Vocabulary bagTo revise new vocabulary I keep a vocabulary bag in the classroom for the term. When we study new vocabulary in a lesson I write the words on strips of card (one word on each) and put the cards in the vocabulary bag. |
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Vocabulary in everyday lifeTo try and make learning words a reaL "LIFE" situation, I ask pupils to keep a list of all the words they encountered in the previous week. |
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Vocabulary recordsWhen I write a new word up on the board, I rarely only write the word itself. I try to consider what extra useful information I should include. |
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WarmersWhat kind of warmers do you use with your students? Watch Andy's ideas and leave your suggestions for warmers below.
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Eddie GuzVel
Mexico
Thanks so much! yes, even I have downloaded one of them. I will practice a lot with...
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Sally Trowbridge
Spain
Hi Eddie,
You can select the '8 cards per A4 sheet' to make dominoes. Have you seen the...
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Eddie GuzVel
Mexico
Hello!! I have a month with you and is really nice the website! I use many tips,...
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