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22 Apr 2013

This is an easy "video" lesson.    

Ask students to brainstorm all the things / buildings that could be called "home". Then show the video and see how many they got correct. Show again, pausing and review all the names for these things people all over the world call "home". 

alphabetEspecially for beginners - what I call "Body English" is a great technique. 

Start with letters / spelling and numbers.  

1. Bring a student to the front of the class.  

2. "Draw" a number or spell a simple word on their back or the palm of their hand. 

3.  Ask the student to guess the word or number.  

4. Get students in pairs…

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This is an excellent video to study places in a house. As the video plays, you can have students note the places in the house.  Check by replaying.  Ask the students how the place has changed, what was happening in the room and what is happening now. Lots of critical thinking embedded in this simple video. Find more videos like this on EFL CLASSROOM 2.0
using videoIf you have a screen and projector - using video in class brings amazing power - the power of context, into your teaching. The classroom no longer has 4 walls!  Here is one quick idea. Use the video  When I grow Up . The students watch and note all the jobs they can possible note during the length…

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This is a great idea for the start of the year. 

Give each group of students some card board strips of paper. Also some tape. 

Students brainstorm the names of all things in the classroom (in English!). 

Then, ask them to go tape the names up around the classroom. First come, first server.

After, take up the names. Student will learn the words over time, as they see them in class and use them. 

Next…

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This idea works well in pairs.  Model in front of the class first. 

 

1. Write numbers or letters on the back of a student/classmate by using your finger.

2. The classmate guesses the number/letter.

3. Make it more advanced. Larger numbers / words. 

 

You can also do a variation of this by doing the same on the palm of the person. 

 

Really "visceral" and kinesthetic way of teaching basic content. …

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Sometimes it is really difficult to avoid students talk in their mother tongue, so usually I choose a corner of the whiteboard and draw a small circle and write Portuguese Area. So if a students want to say anything that he/she can't say in English he/she has to stand up and go to the Portuguese Area. This is interesting because students don't want to stand up all the time in…

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Great activity to revise VOCABULARY from previous classes.

Ask students to think of a word they've learned previously. They have to make sure they know how to write it.

Students come to the front of the class and write the word in the air using his index finger. Then, students write down they word and say it out loud. The student who wrote the word in the air gets 1 point for…

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