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Teaching with Cartoons
A variety of ways to use cartoons to teacher, listening, speaking, reading, and writing. |
Jigsaw Technique
Here is a fun way for your students to practice reading or listening comprehension. This is a good technique to use with larger classes to encourage everyone’s participation. |
Multiple Choice Cards
By changing your procedure for dealing with common classroom activities, such as multiple choice questions, you can increase motivation and add an element of fun. |
Using Letter Tiles
Many activities can be devised using letter tiles. These activities are a way for students who learn by moving things around to practice a variety of skills. |
Total Physical Response
Total physical response is a popular way to help beginning-level students. It helps them develop their listening and vocabulary skills through body movement. It usually proves to be very popular with students. |
Create a Picture File
Old magazines and newspapers are a great source of visual material. If you make a habit of cutting out pictures from them over time, you'll have a complete file of useful visuals for your learners. |
Dictogloss
Dictogloss is a variation on a regular dictation. During a dictogloss lesson, learners listen to the tutor read a text. Then they write down key words and phrases that they remember and try to reconstruct the text. |
Seeing Red
Here are a few tips to help learners retain words they learn, and to help learners who lose their place when reading. |
Using Model Texts
One way to show learners a particular type of writing is to give them a model text. But a model text can be used in many other ways to help learners better understand the format and conventions of that type of writing, language structures used, formality and tone. |
Vocab Box
The vocabulary box is an easy and convenient way to keep a record of words introduced or encountered during lessons. Because the words are already on cards, they are in a “ready to go” format for various classroom activities. |
Finding the Right Book
Here is some guidance for tutors who need to choose an appropriate textbook for their learners. |
Grammar Chants
Chants can be a fun way for learners to memorize language naturally. Here are some activities that can be done with them. |
Using Films to Practice Grammar
A short segment of a film can be used to practice a variety of tenses. This example provides a general procedure in which learners describe what happens in a segment and then write about it. |
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