English, please!

國中小全英語教材教法

Sophie Chen

陳郁方

September 2011

Issues

 Mixed-ability students  Time (tests/ test results)  Curriculum (textbooks/ parents)  Motivation 2011/09/22 Sophie Chen 陳郁方 2

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General guidelines Getting ready to teach Practical teaching ideas Discussion and demonstration 2011/09/22 Sophie Chen 陳郁方 3

General Guidelines

 Working with young learners – Creating optimal conditions – Managing students positively – Relationships – Classroom management – Routines – Rights and responsibilities – Rewards 2011/09/22 Sophie Chen 陳郁方 4

 Relationships – English, please Policy • How • Everyone wants to achieve better learning results 2011/09/22 Sophie Chen 陳郁方 5

Classroom Management

 General principles – Keep Ss busy – Establish your class rules and expectations by yourself at the beginning – Have body language or gestures that will go with often used instructions 2011/09/22 Sophie Chen 陳郁方 6

Classroom Management

 General principles – Give younger children opportunities to move – Don ’ t repeat the same activities too often 2011/09/22 Sophie Chen 陳郁方 7

Routines

 Use a set of routines – Have classroom routines that you follow & Ss understand – When I need to start the lesson 2011/09/22 Sophie Chen 陳郁方 8

Getting Ready to Teach

To teach in English  Motivation  Purpose  Preparation  Learning  Personalization  Timing 2011/09/22 Sophie Chen 陳郁方 9

 Efficient teaching – Attention factor – Involvement factor 2011/09/22 Sophie Chen 陳郁方 10

When you want to

– Encourage involvement • Versatile teaching activities • Blackboard games • Team or individual competition • Storytelling • Drama • A Joke 2011/09/22 Sophie Chen 陳郁方 11

Teaching ideas –

 Why use activities – Language learning is a hard task – An interesting way to practice 2011/09/22 Sophie Chen 陳郁方 12

Teaching ideas

 Listening / Speaking (basic) 1. TPR: Show me/ Bring me/ Put it here 2. How old are you? --- Paper/Scissors/ Stone 3. Body parts. ----------- Doctor! Doctor!

4. Monster drawing activity 5. Bingo 6. Magic finger 2011/09/22 Sophie Chen 陳郁方 13

Teaching ideas

 Listening / Speaking (advance ) 7. Mime what happens (past tense) 8. Favorite bar chart (favorite, how many, there are, 9. Agree or disagree 2011/09/22 Sophie Chen 陳郁方 14

Teaching ideas

 Vocabulary (basic) 1. Days of the week----- Sunday, Monday … 2. Magic eyes 3. Missing flashcards 4. Lip reading 2011/09/22 Sophie Chen 陳郁方 15

Teaching ideas

 Vocabulary (advance ) 5. Repeat if it ’ s true 6. Categories (food, write a list of as many food words as they can think of) 7. Numbers, shapes, objects, telephone no.

8. Bingo game / The matching game 9. Word puzzle 10. Killer Shark 2011/09/22 Sophie Chen 陳郁方 16

Activities for high school students

 Reading – Memory game – Puzzles – Riddles – Mime it 2011/09/22 Sophie Chen 陳郁方 17

 Writing – Letters in the air – ABC relay/ Spelling relay/ Sentence relay – Feelings poem 2011/09/22 Sophie Chen 陳郁方 18

 Grammar – Physical line-up – Sentence scramble – Monster adjectives – Color-coded grammar cards – Grammar detective 2011/09/22 Sophie Chen 陳郁方 19

Teaching Resources

 http://www.starfall.com/  http://www.enchantedlearning.com/  http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.co

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Frequently Asked Questions

 Students show low interests in learning.

 Is it possible to do classroom management without Chinese language?

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