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nounou96
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Dear Friends,
I ll start teaching absolute beginners next week and I don �t Know from where to start . Could You Please help? |
22 Feb 2014
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Gulsi1985
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I think you should start from greetings and parts of a aday. Find some colourful pictures that shows morning, afternoon, evening and night. You can also draw a picture that shows a day. you can prepare a greetings activity in the classroom. write all greetings that includes hello, hi good morning, how are you?, ım fine, good bye...etc in a worksheet then copy, cut down each greetings, Make 2 or 3 groups in the class and handout the copies, then students in groups try to create a dialogue. Students read the dialogue, stick this dialogue in a paper and you can hang them to the board. Hope ı could help you. have a nice day. |
22 Feb 2014
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cunliffe
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...Or put classroom objects on a desk - ruler/pen/pencil/rubber etc. Have the students repeat the names, then point to the right ones as you say the words. Then a competition. Put them in two teams. Two competitors come out and see who points to the right object the quickest. Then draw them and they have to guess the object before the drawing is complete. Then in pairs, they play that same game.... also, a game of splat. I continue this way for a while, introducing more and more nouns, with some social language as Gulsi suggests. Then plurals of nouns with basic prepositions and is/are. keep it kinaesthetic. Get a box, a chair and a table and give instructions. Put the pen in the box/ put the rubber on the table, or true or false? ETc................. |
22 Feb 2014
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sarasantos
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Hi!
I think you can find some good tips there! Good luck!
Cheers |
22 Feb 2014
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blackssheep
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Hi!
I always start my classes from rules (with children - you didn �t write age of your students).
Later on it is easier to conduct the lessons.
I have got small picteres with rules and childern say (in their native language and I translate it) what the rule is and how they understand it (according to them). Then, we prepare a big poster, we stick the rules and students sign the poster as they are ging to obey the rules.
The first lesson is mostly in the native language, but under the rules there are labels in English.
My next lesson is always connected with comments like sit down, stand up, put your hand up, be quiet... there are a lot of games to practice the new vocabulary with flascards (or, in this case, whithout them). You can e.g. play with the ball. Firstly, you say the secret word e.g. sit down. Students stand in a raw. You throw the ball to them (one by one) and say one word - the student has to repeat it. When you throw it and say "sit down" the student can �t catch the ball. When he/she does it, he/she looses.
Another game without flascards: Simon says...
Here are some ideas with the usage of flashards:
http://www.macmillan.pl/szkolenia/small-talks/2936,ten-great-ideas
Bye!
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22 Feb 2014
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maestralidia
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look at "first lesson" on www.maestralidia.com
I generally start with English words that have known in all the languages.
hope useful. bye. Lidia |
23 Feb 2014
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maestralidia
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look at "first lesson" on www.maestralidia.com
I generally start with English words that have known in all the languages.
hope useful. bye. Lidia |
23 Feb 2014
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