A FUNNY WAY TO TEACH WORD ORDER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySnT_5IcWGg

LEARNER - CENTERED CLASSROOM 

http://lfonetwork.uoregon.edu/learner-centered-classrooms/

Examples of Learner-Centered Classroom Activities

§  Think-pair-share

§  Learner logs

§  KWL charts

§  Application cards

§  Admit and exit slips

§  Pair and small group work

§  Journal writing

§  Interviewing native speakers

§  Rubrics and self-assessments

§  Peer assessment

§  A portfolio like LinguaFolio Online that shows what students can do using the target language

Lots of activities can be taken here:

https://www.facinghistory.org/for-educators/educator-resources/teaching-strategies/

TEACHING SPEAKING 

Many thanks to British Council for such a variety of different activities to develop students' speaking abilities!

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/speaking-activities

TEACHING CRITICAL THINKING

If you are intersted in teaching your students critical thinking, then you will definitely like the following chart. Keep it handy while planning your lessons' activities.

Teaching Listening

Pre-listening activities:

·         looking at pictures, maps, diagrams, or graphs

·         reviewing vocabulary or grammatical structures

·         reading something relevant

·         constructing semantic webs (a graphic arrangement of concepts or words showing how they are related)

·         predicting the content of the listening text

·         going over the directions or instructions for the activity

·         doing guided practice

While-listening activities:

·         listening with visuals

·         filling in graphs and charts

·         following a route on a map

·         checking off items in a list

·         listening for the gist

·         searching for specific clues to meaning

·         completing cloze (fill-in) exercises

·         distinguishing between formal and informal registers

 Post-listening activities:

·         problem solving

·         summarizing

·         role play

·         group discussion and writing as follow-up are necessary. 

Using Timeline in Teaching Grammar

 Timelines are used to:

·         Simplify linguistic explanation

·         Reinforce the understanding of a concept

·         Illustrate the differences between verb forms and other language items

·         Help students with a visual learning style

·         Provide a reference point for students

·         Encourage awareness of how language refers to time in different ways

Advantages:

clear visual demonstration of tense

Disadvantages:

questionable whether students will understand by the end of the lesson;

no context provided;
concept of a timeline (not a circle or spiral) is culturally dependent

TEACHING THINKING

Creative thinking techniques

There is no limit to ways there are of thinking creatively. Some techniques you can begin with are:

• Brainstorm ideas on one topic onto a large piece of paper: don't edit these. Just write them down.
• Allowing yourself to play with an idea whilst you go for a walk.
• Draw or paint a theory on paper.
• Ask the same question at least twenty times and give a different answer each time.
• Combine some of the features of two different objects or ideas to see if you can create several more.
• Change your routine. Do things a different way. Walk a different route to college.
• Let your mind be influenced by new stimuli such as music you do not usually listen to.
• Be open to ideas when they are still new: look for ways of making things work and pushing the idea to its limits.
• Ask questions such as 'what if….?' Or 'supposing….?'.