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Lessons in a Can Upgrade
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30 Nov 2011
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Classroom labeling
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23 Jul 2011This 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.
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Body writing
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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.
Really "visceral" and kinesthetic way of teaching basic content. …
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Two players face each other. One palms up and the other palms down over the other hand. The player with the palms up try to slap the hand with palms down. When successful, the student can ask the other student a question (improvised or from a list). Swap places.…
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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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The teacher elicits some verbs from students (4 or 5 verbs) and writes them on the board. Ex: run-eat-see-fly.
Give students 2 or 3 minutes to write a sentence with all the verbs from the board in the same sequence without adding any other verb except for auxiliaries. Ex: I was running home to eat when I saw a beautiful bird flying.
Students then can mingle and tell each other the sentence…
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Matching Game (flashcards)
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4 Jan 2011Use this video to show students how to play the game. It is very simple!
Get more flashcards and ideas for more Flashcard games HERE.
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Running Dictation
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4 Jan 2011
# 96 Running Dictation
This activity can be used with any level - just use an appropriate text. It is great for introducing a text that you will study in depth through intensive reading. Or it can also be used to finish off a lesson/unit and review the text again...
Basically, you have to do 4 things.
1. Divide the class into…
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Spelling game
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11 Sep 2010I use this game with my students to check spelling of vocabulary introduced in the previous lesson.
Divide class in two teams, A and B. Divide the board in the middle. Mark each side of the board for each team.
On each side of the board draw:
- a river with stepping stones for students to get across the river. The winner is the team that crosses the river first. For every correct
Disappearing Dialogue
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13 Jul 2010I got this one from EFL Classroom 2.0. There is a ppt you can use to do dialogues which is cool.
Disappearing dialogues is a very much used language teaching technique
1. Elicit and write the dialogue. Or use a prepared dialogue.
2. Students practice in pairs.
3. Once they are comfortable with the dialogue. Disappear some parts. Continue disappearing more...
4. Rebuild the dialogue together to…
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