Recipes for August, 2009
Drawing and Vocabulary
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16 Aug 2009
Kids love to draw! Use that interest to develop their English.
This lesson recipe is my "go to" lesson. An idea which you can use at the last minute for almost any children's class. Also a good lesson when unprepared or just plain tired/hungover! (it happens).
Give each student a blank A4 piece of paper. Draw a large rectangle on the board. Give the chalk…
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Text Messaging – A writing lesson
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15 Aug 2009
Cellphones are the imbilical cord of today's youth. Instead of fighting against them, let's use this interest to get them learning English!
Transl8it.com allows the teacher to enter English text and then get the "text message" equivalent. Simply copy this and handout to students. The students look at the text messaging and "decode" this into proper English. After they are done, ask…
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Guessing games are a standard way to play and practice/learn vocabulary.
Simply generate with the class your vocabulary list. It can be recent vocabulary from your book/lesson/unit.
Then, the teacher describes one thing/place/person on the board and students try to guess. Only one guess / student or team ( or you will have some students just saying a hundred guesses!). Erase or mark out each…
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Those with --ken past participle sound:
speak spoke spoken
take took taken
wake woke waken
break broke broken
shake shook shaken
Those with --sen past participle sound
choose chose chosen
freeze froze frozen
Those with --ght past participle sound
buy bought bought
fight fought fought
think thought thought
teach taught taught
etc....
chorus repetition is musically enjoyed by students.
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Backdoor – a great teaching technique
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12 Aug 2009Mr. Bean works well with this technique.
Backdoor is a technique where in pairs students sit back to back. One student watches the screen and describes the action. The teacher can write vocab. on the board to prompt student talk. Continue for a few minutes then pause the video and the pairs switch positions.
Continue and then watch the end of the video together, describing without the sound.
This works well with 3-7…
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Talking about your family
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12 Aug 2009
This generates a lot of talk and students are always very interested in each other's lives.
Write down on the board some of your own (the teacher) family names. Underneath write;
A. Who is .......................?
B. ........ is ...........'s ................
A. .................................?
Students ask the teacher about the family members on the board. The teacher replies, using "B" and writing more information on the board. The student then… » Click here to read the rest of ‘Talking about your family’…
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Introduce Yourself…
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11 Aug 2009
This is just one of many ways your students can communicately introduce themselves.
Give each student a slip of paper. Ask them to write their name and two things they like (or you can switch this to suit your class - like from? / Nationality? job? etc...).
Next, students stand up and introduce themselves to each other.
Hi, I'm ..... and I like ...... and…
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Guess the Wordle – a vocab. game
In: All Ages & Levels| High School| Middle School| Recipe| University
11 Aug 2009
Wordle is a wonderful tool for teaching English!
You can put in groups of words and then display them in a "cool" fashion. Your teenagers especially will love this personalization.
I designed a quick game of random wordles - What The Wordle?!. Students make guesses and if correct get points. If they add more words to the wordle, they even… » Click here to read the rest of ‘Guess the Wordle - a vocab. game’…
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Lily knows her Geography!
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