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Teaching Languages

"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater."

Gail Godwin (American author, 1937 - )

 

 

Teaching Reading

KWL and KWLS charts

This is an excellent activity that allows students activate their prior knowledge on a certain topic and make predictions about the assigned non-fiction (expository) or fiction text.

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Reading Aloud
Reading aloud is one of the most powerful techniques for improving students’ reading skills and keeping them engaged. It can be done by the teacher or by the students.

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Teaching Writing

Differences in ESL learners

Those who have ever taught an ESL course would agree that one cannot have a completely homogenous group of ESL students in one classroom. Typically ESL classes include students of different ages, genders, personalities, cognitive styles, motivations, socioeconomic status, cultural backgrounds, L1 educational experiences, and different levels of L2 proficiency.

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Learning Written Academic Language

The main purpose of an ESL composition course is to educate L2 learners in the area of written academic discourse. This can be a very demanding task for the instructor and for the students. There are a number of issues involved in achieving the intended result successfully.

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Error Correction in ESL Writing

The problem of correcting of errors that ESL students make in their writing has been extensively discussed in professional literature on ESL writing.

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Teaching Vocabulary

Alphabet soup

Students look throuhg a text or a list of words on the topic that they have recently studied and fill in the "Alphabet Soup" chart with words. The student who can fill in the most lines on the chart, wins a prize or gets extra credit. You can make the assignment more challenging by asking students to find the words that have only 4 or 5 letters in them.

You can download the "Alphabet Soup" chart icon here .
Feelings-Words Poster (Album)

You can create a class picture Poster (or a picture-dictionary Album). Take pictures of students showing different emotions (sad, happy, bored, scared, excited, etc.). Arrange the pictures on a poster-board or in a photo album. Label the pictures with appropriate feeling words.

Extension: Invite students to write a description (or a short story) of when/in what circumstances they could have such feelings.

 

Download icon Feelings in pictures. (for registered members)

 

First Day of Class

True or False

This is a nice activity that can be used on the first day of ESL (language learning) class in order to learn more about your students.

Level: Intermediate - Advanced

Materials: paper and pencils

Procedures:

1. Students write three sentences about themselves on a piece of paper. Two are true facts, one is false. They mark the false one with a star (so that students don't change their answers later)

2. One student reads his/her statements. The class has to guess which one is false.

3. Students who guess correctly get points for that. Later the student with the most points gets a prise.

 

 

 

Names A to Z

This activity is good for introductions and for practicing the alphabet. It is good for a new group of students and for the class where you have just a few new students or a new teacher.

Level: Beginning through Advanced

Language: What is your name? - My name's ___./I am ___.

Alphabet

Procedures:

1. Students introduce themselves: What is your name? - My name's Anna.

2.Then students line up in the alphabetical order (A to Z). If there isn't enough room in the classroom students can form a circle.

Variation:

More advanced students can be asked to add an adjective in front of their names: I am a smart Sandra.

Find the Person

Level: Intermediate

Language: asking questions

Procedures:

1. Day 1 - the teacher writes some questions on the board for the students to answer. Students can choose 3 questions and write the answers on three slips of paper. Students are required to give a full answer (I usually read a book at 7 p.m.). The teacher collects the answers and checks them for any mistakes.

Questions:

What do you usually do at 7 p.m.?

What is your favorite movie/TV show?

What is your telephone number?

What is your street number/name of your street?

How many sisters/brothers do you have?

When is your birthday?

What do you like cooking?

Where did you go last summer?

How do you usually get to school?

Who is your father? (What is your father's name?)

2. Day 2 - each student receives 3 slips of paper written by other students. Now students have to go around the room and find those who wrote those answers. They have to ask questions: Do you have three brothers?
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