To try and make learning words a reaL "LIFE" situation, I ask pupils to
keep a list of all the words they encountered in the previouos week.
They bring them to the lessons and they ar
Once again, because I found the material logical and easy to
understand, it never occurred to me to question the validity of the
theories or the research. I embraced it enthusiastically, to the extent
that I developed a resource for my students at the IT learning centre,
by means of which they could identify their own learning style and
adopt some tactics that would enable them to maximise their learning
experience at the centre... Read more >>
A simple activity to try is to print out flash cards for the
astrological signs. Then print out the "advice" from one of the many
offered in papers or magazines.
With small groups, a useful exercise is to write down a simple, basic sentence and ask the students to add as many adverbs and adjectives to make the sentence more "colourful".
To revise new vocabulary I keep a vocabulary bag in the classroom for the term. When we study new vocabulary in a lesson I write the words on strips of card (one word on each) and put the cards in the vocabulary bag.
Hello everybody. In Afghanistan we do not have a lot of facilities to use in order to help the students improve their English. We most often use our local newspapers which are not in English.
I am an English trainer at Whitefield Academy, and I tried one activity which became an exercise for fluency. I have ten students in each class so I make students, taking it in turns,be a "Celebrity": an actor, sportsperson, a singer etc..
