Students are not always in the right mood to speak and to help them, to encourage them to speak, teachers can use little things that will help students
Post-it notes
- Create a task according to which your students are to write something on a post-it note. Ask them to wear it and then to find out about each other.
- Do you want to train “to be going to” construction? – Ask your students to write on post-it notes their plans for the forthcoming summer, for example. They are to write the name of an activity, the date, the place. Then, they mingle and learn about other students’ plans.
- Do you want to train Past Simple? – Ask your students to think of a past event in their life. This can be connected to some topic you are working on. For instance, when did they go on holiday? They are to write the date and the place. Then, they find out about other students’ stories.
Walls
- Ask them to position themselves between the two
walls to express their opinion. The closer they are to a wall the more
they are of that opinion. Then ask them to share their points of view with
people standing close together, and then with people who are far from each
other.
- The same idea can be applied to numerous
contexts. Such as: “Like – dislike”; “I know – I don’t know” etc. Let them
share their standpoints and their experience with other classmates.
Small
objects
- Give each of your students a certain number of
small objects. They are to get rid of these objects. For each 3-5
sentences (as you wish) that they say on the topic, they can put one
object down.
- The same idea but the other way round. For each
3-5 sentences on the topic, they get one object and students are to
collect as much as they can.
- Students can take one piece of a puzzle. Then,
give them time to join the jigsaw puzzle and ask them to speak about the
picture they got.
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