How to make children concentrate for the whole lesson?

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How to make children concentrate for the whole
lesson?
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Two types of motivation

• Intrinsic
• - a natural interest
• - hobby
• no external incentives
• no idea of reward

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• Extrinsic
• comes from outside of the performer
• rewards

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The joke atmosphere could be dangerous

• A surplus of language games
• Excessive joviality on the part of the teacher
• Selection of visual aids which cause the
  distraction

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Reasonably

• However if we want to make children concentrate
  during the whole lesson we should prepare some
  funny games or activities to warm them up either
  at the beginning or during the lesson to restore
  the concentration

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• first five minutes of the lesson are very
  important for the whole class- we cannot enter
  the room and start writing a test
• it is better to ask your pupils about their
  week-end, or about their plans for the evening
• we can also ask how they are,to prepare the nice
  atmosphere for a language lesson

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• after this easing and creation of a good
  atmosphere we should warm up our pupils
• this warm-up activity can be listening to a song
  or playing some games
• when we see that pupils lose their concentration
  we can come up with some activity in the middle
  of the lesson

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• Why do the pupils lose their concentration?

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• They do not understand the instructions
• -always demonstrate and rather than asking them
  if they understand, ask them questions such as
  Do you have to draw in this box or in this box?
• -you should not start giving instructions
• unless you have complete silence

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They do not know why they are doing the activity

• Help them become active learners, tell them
  briefly why they are doing it Lets play a game
  to remember the colours we learnt yesterday
• Then get feedback from them about what they did
  so they do not see it as an isolated activity
  Did you enjoy that game? How many colours can
  you remember now?

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The activity is boring

• Think first if you are doing an activity for the
  first time, first think about what exactly you
  want to teach them and whether it is something
  you yourself would enjoy doing
• The fact that you have considered how successful
  an activity may or may not be before doing it,
  will better help you to deal with any problems
  that may arise. .

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The activity is too easy/difficult

• Split them into groups some learners may finish
  extremely quickly and start disrupting.
• Check straightaway that they have understood the
  activity. You may find out that they have
  misunderstood and done only half of what they
  needed to do.
• For those who finished early because they found
  the activity too easy you need to challenge them
  further to ensure they stay interested. Have a
  box of extra activities that they can do while
  they wait.
• You can make the butterfly group working on one
  task and the spider group on another.

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Youve forgotten materials you need to set up an
activity

• You should always have some rescue activities
  on hand
• If you know what you planned to do you can apply
  a rescue activity on it
• For example
• You wanted to review the present continuous, but
  do not have your materials-you pick out some
  pictures from your box and introduce a miming
  activity.
• What are you doing? Are you swimming?
  No, I am drowning!
• !!Having a picture gallery can help a lot
  whenever you have a few minutes at the end of the
  lesson or you need to rescue your lesson (it
  happens?)

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The equipment doesnt work?

• Prepare your equipment check before class that
  the DVD is working.
• Put your cassette to exactly the right place to
  avoid wasting time when trying to find the song
  you want.
• You will lose the children if you have to fiddle
  with machines!

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Some examples of language games

• Story-Go-Round Game
• Puzzle game
• I went to the supermarket and I bought
• Who am I?
• Word association
• A long word

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• Describe a picture
• Dictation- a memory game
• Crosswords
• Explain a word
• Classroom observation- spot the difference
• Memory game- look at it and describe what did you
  see
• Find somebody who..
• What is red, small, nice

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• Write a postcard
• What is my job?
• Pantomime
• Alphabet Game-individuals, groups
• Bingo
• Hangman
• Word football (word snakes)
• Scrabble

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Other alternatives to maintain childrens
concentration

• Make every listening interesting
• -first listening without questions- write as many
  details as you can
• -filling in the missing words
• -mistakes in the text

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And what about you?

• How do you make your lessons interesting?