ENGLISH TEACHING TIPS

1-Pre-teach vocabulary of personal items. 2-Take one small personal item from each student and put them in a bag. 3-Ask each student to take one item from the bag making sure they don`t take their own. 4-Have your Ss stand up and look for the owners of the items by using the following dialog, which will be written for them on the board. A: EXCUSE ME. IS THIS YOUR__________________? B: YES, IT IS! THANK YOU VERY MUCH/ NO, IT`S NOT. A: YOU`RE WELCOME/ SORRY.

Here`s a way to teach and practice vocabulary of family members with low and intermediate levels. 1-Draw a family tree on the board made up of rectangles with people`s names inside and connected with lines. The size of the family tree will depend on how much vocabulary you want to teach. One of the rectangles should read ME. 2-Write a list of family words next to the tree for your Ss to label the people`s names within the boxes. 3-Have your Ss work in pairs and practice the following exchange. B will play the role of the person belonging to the family whose tree has been drawn on the board. A will ask questions with the names within the boxes. A: WHO`S_______________? B: THAT`S MY_________________? ( B`s answers will depend on the family tree on the board and not his or her own )

1-Put some small classroom items in a bag ( a pencil, an eraser, a sharpener,etc. ) 2-Ask your students to stand around your desk. 3-Ask the Ss to close their eyes for a minute. 4-While the Ss have their eyes closed you empty the content of the bag on the desk. 5-Ask the Ss to open their eyes and look at the objects on the desk during a minute without talking. 6-When the minute is over ask your Ss to close their eyes again and put the items back in the bag. 7-Ask you Ss to open their eyes, go back to their seats and write as many phrases as they can using the structure A(N)+ADJECTIVE+NOUN based on what they saw on the desk. For example, A YELLOW PENCIL, A SMALL ERASER, etc. 8-Have your Ss exchange papers and check one another as you take out the objects from the bag one by one and prompt phrases from the class.

1-Write the following exchange on the board : A: WHO-------------? B: IT WAS-------BY----------- 2-Write the following ideas below the exchange : DISCOVERED AMERICA PAINTED THE MONALISA WROTE ROMEO AND JULIET DISCOVERED PENICILLIN DESIGNED THE STATUE OF LIBERTY INVENTED THE LIGHT BULB INSPIRED THE BIBLE ( And-or any other of your choice ) 3-Have your Ss practice the exchange in 1 with the ideas in 2 ( model first ) 4-Check answers with your Ss. CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, LEONARDO DA VINCI, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, ALEXANDER FLEMING, FREDERIC BARTHOLDI, THOMAS EDISON, THE HOLY SPIRIT.