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Demanding students
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Magdalena Ganowska-Sztuba
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Demanding students
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Dear teachers, I am writing to you for some advice, maybe you can share your ideas with me. I have an adult student (pre-intermediate) who is very demanding and wants lots of revisions and my ideas are on the verge of exhaustion. We mainly speak and do lots of speaking and listening exercises. Can you share your sources / ideas with tasks I can do? I did a lot of gap information, comparing pictures and describing pictures. What other speaking tasks I can do to practice Past Simple for example? tank you for your help and greetings from Poland |
22 Apr 2015
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maryse pey�
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http://www.eslprintables.com/buscador/search.asp?eje=30&page=1&nivel=any&age=0&tipo=any&contents=picture based conversation&orderby=#thetop
You will find on this site (with the link above) several ideas. |
22 Apr 2015
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ilonzia
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Have you tried story cubes or Tabboo. Do you know "The Great verb game"? |
22 Apr 2015
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carme sammut
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Similar students need several tasks within one lesson. Their attention span is very limited and this hinders them from participating. The lesson should be made of multiple tasks and missions. Example: introduce your lesson with a song or instrumental music. Then ask your student to write down emotions felt during the song or else he may draw his emotions. Then move on to auditory tasks and exercises. Start your objective grammatical or any other language competence. Exercises should be given language games format, for instance crossword puzzles, word search, find the correct word. Conclusion should be creative writing: writing an e mail, letter, a recipe, a shopping list. good luck |
22 Apr 2015
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cunliffe
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�Picture story dictation. � Get some news stories, Tell them to your student while drawing pictures/symbols. Then ask questions about it, eventually getting the student to re-tell the entire story. |
22 Apr 2015
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class centre
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my students love the tasks where they have to keep on talking until the time is out ( bomb, sound timer etc.) google something like " online timer" |
22 Apr 2015
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cunliffe
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If you have the internet, a great resource is newsinlevels. I ask my students to choose 3 stories which interest them, read them, watch the clip, then come back and report the articles to me, answering the �wh � question words. Also, why they chose those particular stories - what is interesting etc.... |
22 Apr 2015
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stessenspaola
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I use the internet TESL Journal http://iteslj.org/ and also TV series like Friends where you can find many informal expressions and phrases that can help your students to talk in a natve like manner |
22 Apr 2015
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ninon100
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Two books: Speaking extra Listening extra They will keep him busy, believe me :) |
23 Apr 2015
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