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English, please!??????????
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Issues

• Mixed-ability students
• Time (tests/ test results)
• Curriculum (textbooks/ parents)
• Motivation

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• General guidelines
• Getting ready to teach
• Practical teaching ideas
• Discussion and demonstration

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General Guidelines

• Working with young learners
• Creating optimal conditions
• Managing students positively
• Relationships
• Classroom management
• Routines
• Rights and responsibilities
• Rewards

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• Relationships
• English, please Policy
• How
• Everyone wants to achieve better learning results

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Classroom Management

• General principles
• Keep Ss busy
• Establish your class rules and expectations by
  yourself at the beginning
• Have body language or gestures that will go with
  often used instructions

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Classroom Management

• General principles
• Give younger children opportunities to move
• Dont repeat the same activities too often

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Routines

• Use a set of routines
• Have classroom routines that you follow Ss
  understand
• When I need to start the lesson

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Getting Ready to Teach

• To teach in English
• Motivation
• Purpose
• Preparation
• Learning
• Personalization
• Timing

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• Efficient teaching
• Attention factor
• Involvement factor

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When you want to

• Encourage involvement
• Versatile teaching activities
• Blackboard games
• Team or individual competition
• Storytelling
• Drama
• A Joke

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Teaching ideas

• Why use activities
• Language learning is a hard task
• An interesting way to practice

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Teaching ideas

• Listening / Speaking (basic)
• TPR Show me/ Bring me/ Put it here
• How old are you? --- Paper/Scissors/ Stone
• Body parts. ----------- Doctor! Doctor!
• Monster drawing activity
• Bingo
• Magic finger

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Teaching ideas

• Listening / Speaking (advance )
• Mime what happens (past tense)
• Favorite bar chart (favorite, how many, there
  are,
• Agree or disagree

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Teaching ideas

• Vocabulary (basic)
• Days of the week----- Sunday, Monday
• Magic eyes
• Missing flashcards
• Lip reading

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Teaching ideas

• Vocabulary (advance )
• Repeat if its true
• Categories (food, write a list of as many food
  words as they can think of)
• Numbers, shapes, objects, telephone no.
• Bingo game / The matching game
• Word puzzle
• Killer Shark

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Activities for high school students

• Reading
• Memory game
• Puzzles
• Riddles
• Mime it

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• Writing
• Letters in the air
• ABC relay/ Spelling relay/ Sentence relay
• Feelings poem

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• Grammar
• Physical line-up
• Sentence scramble
• Monster adjectives
• Color-coded grammar cards
• Grammar detective

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Teaching Resources

• http//www.starfall.com/
• http//www.enchantedlearning.com/
• http//puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com

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Frequently Asked Questions

• Students show low interests in learning.
• Is it possible to do classroom management without
  Chinese language?