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Classroom – Blog EBE https://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg English Book Education Tue, 21 Apr 2015 06:23:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/cropped-English-Book-Education-Symbol-02-32x32.png Classroom – Blog EBE https://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg 32 32 Philip Kerr: Learning Vocabulary: It Takes Two to Tango https://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg/philip-kerr-learning-vocabulary-it-takes-two-to-tango/ Wed, 05 Nov 2014 06:27:39 +0000 http://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg/?p=2153 Continue reading Philip Kerr: Learning Vocabulary: It Takes Two to Tango ]]> On Saturday the 8th of November, English Book in Georgia, in conjunction with the Ministry of Education and Macmillan Education will be holding a conference discussing “English Language and Economic Development in the Globalized World”.

One of the speakers, Philip Kerr, will be talking about “Learning Vocabulary: It Takes Two to Tango”.

During his talk, Kerr will be referencing several websites. We’d like to provide those for you today, in preperation for his talk.

We look forward to seeing you there!!

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Using Songs with Young Learners https://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg/for-teachers-using-songs-with-young-learners/ Mon, 04 Aug 2014 06:52:15 +0000 http://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg/?p=1419 Continue reading Using Songs with Young Learners ]]> Why to use songs with young children:

  • They are memorable, and so make students remember the language
  • They can be great fun
  • They cover the same topics as they kids are covering in the English lessons and other classes: animals (Old Macdonald), body parts (Teddy Bear Teddy Bear) etc.
  • They are the best way of marking different stages of the lesson
  • Students can listen to the songs at home and revise the language
  • They provide an easy way of changing the pace, e.g. settling down restless students with a lullaby-like calming song (Incy Wincy Spider etc.) or wearing them out with a manic, lively song (YMCA etc.)
  • They provide an achievable challenge for all levels of learner in mixed ability classes, by letting some students just show their understanding by doing the actions while others can sing along or even improvise their own words
  • They allow for lots of repetition of the language without kids getting bored (as long as you add variations), vital for learning in small children. Variations to keep it interesting include doing the song louder and quieter, slower and faster etc.

The Wheels on the Bus

Next question is how songs should be used. Here are some general principles for making a song ‘work’. First of all, what does ‘work’ mean? What are we aiming for when we use a song in class? Here are some of the things we might want to achieve by using a song:

  1. Students have fun and are therefore motivated for the rest of the lesson and future lessons
  2. Students learn quicker than with other methods
  3. Students remember longer than with other methods
  4. Students lose some of their inhibitions about speaking out, using rhythm and intonation when speaking, moving around and using gestures etc.
  5. Using the song reinforces other things you are working on in the classroom such as discipline, teaching kids to work together, rewarding good behaviour, fostering learner independence etc.

To make sure we achieve those things we will need to make sure that:

  1. The meaning of the song’s words can be made clear in a quick and easy way
  2. Whether the students understand the meaning of the song or not is easy to gauge
  3. The meanings and the song are easy to remember
  4. The song is suitable for the students in terms of age, speed, content, embarrassment factor
  5. The language in the song is similar to language they will be able to use in other parts of the class and/ or outside the class

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Using Ball Games to Teach English https://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg/for-teachers-using-ball-games-to-teach-english/ Mon, 07 Jul 2014 08:51:10 +0000 http://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg/?p=1337 Continue reading Using Ball Games to Teach English ]]> Ball games are a great way of practicing all kinds of language with young learners, particularly kids who struggle with more traditional classroom activities. Because they have so many possible uses, ball games are particularly good for revising a load of old language before moving onto presenting the new language point of the day.

Throwing or bouncing balls to drill language

playing-ball-line-drawing-mdThe simplest use of a ball is for students to throw and catch it while drilling something like months of the year or pairs of infinitive and irregular past forms of verbs. This can be done with all three of the ways mentioned in the introduction above – one student on their own, two or more students cooperating, or a more competitive version with more challenging throws or things said to catch the other people out. You could also have one or two people throwing and catching while everyone else chants, perhaps as teams. Other sequences which students can drill include Days of the week, Numbers, Times and Dates, Adjectives and adverbs, I me my mine, you you your yours, etc.

Going beyond drilling with throwing and bouncing balls

Another obvious activity that could be considered one step above drilling is brainstorming as a ball goes back and forth, e.g. “banana”, “apple”, “grape” etc if the topic is fruit. The same thing can be done for grammar by brainstorming things like past participles (“been”, “seen”, “watched” etc) and uncountable nouns. You can also do the same thing for pronunciation, brainstorming words with “iz” ending (“passes”, “churches” etc), words with long vowel sounds (“arch” etc), single syllable words (“fan”, “bar” etc), words stressed on the first syllable (“power”, “waterfall”, etc), and so on.

Target practice games for practicing English

Target practice in the classroom can be played with students aiming balls at the places that the teacher or a student says or writes up on the whiteboard. If you don’t have enough balls for one per student or don’t want lots of things flying around the classroom at the same time, students can use paper (screwed up into balls or made into paper aeroplanes) or one person from each team can throw, with their teammates helping them work out where to do so. To add extra language, you can let students try again if they can describe where their ball actually ended up (“It’s in front of the box” “That’s right. Try to throw it behind the box again then.”). You can also play the opposite game of one person throwing and the other students competing to be first to correctly shout out where the ball has ended up.

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Ball actions

As well as listening for where the ball has gone, students can listen for what someone is doing with the ball, e.g. “You are bouncing it on the door” and “You are kicking it”. Students can also race to do the action that is shouted out or written up (“Balance the ball on your shoulder”, “Hold the ball between your knees”, etc), challenge each other to do tricky things (“Can you head it four times?” etc), or think of and do actions that no one else has (“We are holding it with our little fingers”). One person or group can also do a whole sequence of actions that the other people must try to remember, as practice of Past Simple and/ or sequencing language (“after that” etc).

TEFL dodge ball

This is kind of the opposite of the throw and catch games at the start of this article. People try to avoid the thrown ball, and if it hits them they have to answer the question, come up with the next word, guess the next missing letter, etc. If they are wrong, they lose a point or are out of the game. If they are right, they can throw the ball next, perhaps also setting the next challenge. If you and the students can stand the chaos, this works best with everyone running around freely, rather than gathered at opposite walls as in the normal rules of dodge ball.

Article written by Alex Case for UsingEnglish.com
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5 Minute Classroom Activities https://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg/5-minute-activities/ Thu, 26 Dec 2013 06:06:10 +0000 http://englishbookgeorgia.com/blogebg/?p=583 Continue reading 5 Minute Classroom Activities ]]> There are many ways for children and young people to have fun, make friends and get active while studying. We offer 5 minute activities to strengthen your classes

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