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".
Especially 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.
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1 Jun 2011This 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.
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25 Mar 2011Sometimes 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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25 Mar 2011Great 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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