Tomorrow I will share one awesome activity that can be adapted for any topic. Stay tuned 👀👂😇😄
Here's the activity that my students and I enjoy immensely - Sleeping Pandas 🐼🐼🐼🐼. It allows you to practice listening and speaking. There's also focus on sentence structure. The activity was shared by David Chiesa, a language teaching fellow from the US, at a conference in Tashkent a few years ago. It has become one of my favourites since then.
🐼 Choose a sentence you want to practice. It can be a statement from the text you have read or a rule that you want to review. Divide it into four parts, e.g. "The most famous /British/ royal home is/ Buckingham Palace". Write them on 4 separate pieces of paper.
🐼 Bring four chairs in front of the classroom and call four volunteers to sit on them.
🐼Number them 1-4 and ask them "to sleep". Students "sleep" by closing their eyes and putting their heads down.
🐼When they hear you call their number, i.e. "Number One, wake up", they "wake up" and read the part of the sentence. They have to remember what they see.
🐼 After four rounds, everyone "wakes up" and puts the sentence together.
P.S. If you teach young learners or a beginner class, you can divide a word into 4 parts.
🐼 Bring four chairs in front of the classroom and call four volunteers to sit on them.
🐼Number them 1-4 and ask them "to sleep". Students "sleep" by closing their eyes and putting their heads down.
🐼When they hear you call their number, i.e. "Number One, wake up", they "wake up" and read the part of the sentence. They have to remember what they see.
🐼 After four rounds, everyone "wakes up" and puts the sentence together.
P.S. If you teach young learners or a beginner class, you can divide a word into 4 parts.
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English Teaching 101 made a video instruction of the game. You can watch it in case my instructions are not clear.
https://t.me/eltresources
English Teaching 101 made a video instruction of the game. You can watch it in case my instructions are not clear.
https://t.me/eltresources
Sleeping-Pandas.pptx
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Or you can play it on the whiteboard by using this powerpoint template.
https://t.me/eltresources
https://t.me/eltresources
What do you think of organizing vocabulary notes this way 🤔🧐? Interesting? Definitely 🤩🤩🤩! These templates from Olga Pavlova will help your students remember different phrases and collocations in a fun and engaging way.
🗃 This set of speaking cards will become your favourite item in your teaching toolbox, that is for sure 😁.
How to use:
📌 A student desribes the picture using as many words from the list as possible.
📌 Fold the cards so that a student can't see the list of words. Tell him/her to create his/her own list for the picture. Then the cards are exchanged with a partner and both students describe the picture using the partner's words.
📌 Describe the picture without preparation, then unfold it and see how many words have been used.
How to use:
📌 A student desribes the picture using as many words from the list as possible.
📌 Fold the cards so that a student can't see the list of words. Tell him/her to create his/her own list for the picture. Then the cards are exchanged with a partner and both students describe the picture using the partner's words.
📌 Describe the picture without preparation, then unfold it and see how many words have been used.
Headless sentences_@eltresources.pdf
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#unit5governmentandpoliticalstructure
An activity to revise unit 5 Government and Political Structure. The instructions are inside the file.
https://t.me/eltresources
#unit5governmentandpoliticalstructure
An activity to revise unit 5 Government and Political Structure. The instructions are inside the file.
https://t.me/eltresources
etf_58_3_pg46-48_grammar salad.pdf
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Instructions for the game "Word Salad"