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Activities

We can include

warm-up activities

worksheets

role play skits

games.

These can be an individual activity, pair activity, small group, or a whole class activity.

Why do we pick certain activities versus others? What makes something a good activity? ______________________________________________________________________________

We want to use activities that include all or most of the students.

All levels must be able to enjoy and succeed in our activities.

Activities must meet the learning objective for each lesson.

Teachers also tend to use activities that are easy to explain and use few materials.

Even though our lessons are arranged in a listen, speak, read, and write order, it doesn’t mean we have to stay fixed to that model. The PPP method doesn’t have be a tedious approach to teaching. I hope we will leave this workshop leaving with a variety of activities to use for the rest of the year and for following years.

Some activities do not work because we have poor class room management, lack of directions, or students are not ready to complete the activity.

Introduction/First days

What icebreakers have you played in your class? Have you heard/played any of these? _____________________________________________________________________________

M & M /Skiddles/ colored candy - Each color represents a subject they must share in their group. It can also be a question or an action the must do

Toilet paper video Each panel they have is something they must share or say

Beautiful scribbles Students have 15 seconds to doodle on a page. After the times is up they switch for another's piece of paper and create a drawing from the doodles in 30 seconds.

People Bingo The teacher prepares identical Bingo sheets with topics/questions the students have to gather by moving around the room and talking to their classmates. After the students ask a question, they would write the person's name in the box. The first person to get five in a row wins. You can make it easier by changing they typical 5×5 grid into a 3×3

Who am I? Put a card on your back with a picture and/or name of a famous person or character. You can only ask yes or no questions. "Am I real? "Am I am a woman? "I have long hair"

Famous pairs- Similar to "Who am I?" The teacher should introduce all the pairs that would be in the game before it starts. People have to learn who they are and then find their pair. You could also use this game with reviewing verb tenses. Example. One person would have write and needs to find wrote. The class wouldn't talk but pantimine the action to explain the verb.
Guess who- Everyone will write a short interesting thing about themselves and audience has to guess who it is about. It is better to do this with a group of five people or less. You could also do this in sessions.

Quiet

Boom-chica-boom

Teeth

Two truths-one lie video

Year of the coin

Quick line up

Song scramble

Teacher Says/Simon says

What do you see

Pick a letter,

Engergizers
Pictionary

Before class starts/the first five minutes

How do you start class? Is it led by you? Do you pick an activity to energize the students or to settle them down? Is it the same every day? Are the students/you excited about learning English?

I start with a song. The students have their favorites. Some are pop songs and some are EFL or for young learners.

Using audio

Having two teachers in the class means there are three sources of audio-the book, Korean teacher and Guest teacher. Sometimes listening activities can be boring. Usually we do listen and repeat- with the book’s audio or the teacher. Instead make different versions of a listen and repeat. I like to do a robot voice, angry voice, an opera singer’s voice, or cat voice. The students have to repeat it, and they think it’s funny. I also slow down the listen and repeat sections. Another way to modify listen and repeat is for the students to walk around, find a partner and repeat with the audio, then move around again and repeat with the audio.

Songs- Pop songs, kid songs, songs from the book

I like to use both pop songs and kids songs. Once a month, pick one or two pop songs to teach the class. Teachers pick the six songs and let the students vote. Also make lyric sheets for students to glue in their notebook/book. Some of the songs relate to the grammar or vocabulary of the lesson. Some songs relate to the holiday or season. Super Simple Songs, Pancake Manor, and Storybots are my FAVORITE YouTube channels for student songs.

I use http://en.savefrom.net/ to download the song and then edit and manipulate the song. For example, you can use MovieMaker to add captions/words to videos. You can use your media player to slow down or speed up the video.

Other activities to do with songs

· Underline certain words and let the students change the words.

· Fill in the blanks or circle the correct word.

· Have the students circle, underline certain words.

· Students can draw pictures to describe versus of the song.

· Have the students put the song in order.

· Assign students certain words and they will stand up when they hear those words in the song.

· Students have the lyrics of the song but instead of filling in the right words, have students find the mistakes.

Worksheets

How can you make a worksheet activity exiting? How can you make a worksheet activity a bit more productive and meaningful for the student?______________________________________

Use of Visuals

When I think of “visuals” I mean flashcards from the book, comics, PPTs, and videos. How do you use visuals in your classes? Is it just to learn and review vocabulary? How can you use it in other ways? How do you use flashcards (your own or the book’s)? ______________________________________________________________________________

Students should make their own visuals in class. What are some activities that could integrate writing and reading with visuals?___________________________________________________

Helpful sites for comic strip making, embedding videos with quizzes, music videos and pre-made flashcards are www.educanon.com, www.edpuzzle.com, www.makebeliefscomix.com, www.pixton.com, www.writecomics.com, www.mes-english.com, www.eslflashcards.com, AND grammarmancomic.com/freestuff/music/doodlevideos/

Skits/Role play- Use props! I make stickers of the characters from the book. Students can create their own skit, read from the book or teacher prepared skit.

Stations

This requires a lot of classroom management and planning. This is easier if you have your own classroom because it takes some time to set up the desks, hang directions on the wall (though you should still explain how to do the activities for each station) and set out the games or worksheets for each station. Many of the students like this type of learning. The activities are completed at their own pace (within set time limits). You can create stations with games, independent work, group work activities with the teachers, and so on. This is a good way to review a lesson but also a good way to introduce a chapter.

Games If you have taught something other than English, what games have you used that came from another subject? ____________________________________________________________

Below is a list of games. What are the positives and negatives to these games? Which language skill are the students applying when playing these games?

Games I use often

Simple directions, few materials to prepare, format they have seen in other classes, most/all the students are participating in the game

Games I don’t use often (This is not saying these games are bad. Personally, I might like a type of game but the students don’t. Sometimes the students like a games but I don’t think they really help them study or apply the skills.

Mime/charades +Younger students love acting out vocabulary. +We turned this into a team game. –Older kids don’t like this activity.

Telepathy-Easy to make. Students have fun. It is an easy way to get them to write. Those that have the powers of telepathy get a prize. Anyone can get high points regardless of level.

Evolution/Food chain/baseball bases- Students use the key phrase to get to the top. They ask a question, answer it, RPS, the winner is the higher on the chain and do this until time ends. There can be many winners.

Detective- This is a speaking game. Students use the book’s flashcards. The detective has to find who put the card in the middle. The detective has to use the key question, “Where is the library?” If you didn’t put out the card the student says, “Sorry, I don’t know.” If you did put the card out the student says, “It’s next to the bank.” Play in groups of four. Three points when they can guess on the first try, two points on the second try, and one point on the third try.

Baskin Robins 31- Speaking and reading game. You have 31 spaces. You can read 1,2, or 3 squares. If you land on 31 you are out. So easy.

Football/soccer game- You have to be the first to make a goal. You read the phrase or make a sentences based on the picture. RPS, read, move up, and RPS repeat until you make a point.

Coin slide/ blow a tissue- You can play this in many ways. The student’s coin lands on a spot and they have to say the phrase. The goal is either to get more points or land on all the spaces.

Bomb games +It is Easy to find a template. +Fun way to review. +Students like it. -There is only one student that can answer at time. -What are the rest of the students doing?

Board games- The book’s board games end quickly. I am too lazy to make a better one. Finding a template online and using flashcards that you already have would be helpful.

Taboo/Hot Seat- The students’ English level at my school isn’t high enough to play this game. This is a great game if the class knows a lot of vocabulary.

Bingo-. I like this game but my students don’t. Students cross off boxes on a Bingo sheet; students would have to find or ask information from other students Actually, I play One line Bingo which they do like.

Fly swatter/hammer game- Only two people are participating at a time. I don’t like the noise.

Chicken Cha Cha – I like this game too. I just don’t like how many parts it has. Sometimes the students don’t actually use the language and play it as a memory game. It is usually a speaking game but it can be a reading game too.

Spy- Students mingle and have to use the key phrase. You ask and answer questions to others that have the same response (card) as you. If you are the Spy you can lie. The group that has the spy doesn’t win. I like this game also, but sometimes the kids get crazy trying to figure out if someone is the spy and not practicing the key expression.

Spinning game- Easy to make, but it can be a bit boring.

Activities that focus on specific language skills

Listening	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Combination

So many activities!!!!!! But how do you organize and save them all?

YES. You will want to save them. If you plan on teaching next year, you will want to use these activities again.

· Group them by type of activity, lesson, language focus

· Put them in a binder/portfolio clear file

· Save them on a USB drive, also add pictures or video

· Put it in a location you can access easily

I hope you are able to use a new set of activities in your classes. Thank you for participating. Enjoy the rest of your year!

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Bloom’s Taxonomy and EFL lessons		What are the students doing?
Knowledge/Remembering	define, label, find, listen and repeate , select, How do we help students memorize vocabulary words and key phrases?
Comprehension/ Understanding	describe, match, select, translate
Application/ Transferring	classify, compare, use, demonstrate, change
Analysis / Relating	Guess the meaning, investigate, survey
Evaluation / Judging	debate, pick the better word, recommend
Synthesis/ Creating	Write a story, give a presentation

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Listening	Speaking	Reading	Writing
· Listen and repeat · Chose the correct word · Listen and draw · Flashcards · O X Quiz · Clap or stand when you here key words · Dictations (older students can make their own script for their partners) · Line Bingo · Slap or pick up vocabulary cards · Whisper/ telephone · Relay game/ running dictation	· Listen and repeat, chant · Role play · Hello neighbor/ speed dating · Make new lyrics · Pass the ball · Survey · Battleship · Tic-Tac-Toe, · Pictionary · Interviews · Be the teacher · Conversation stations · Pyramid / evolution · Guess who · Who am I? What is this? Picture on the forehead · Taboo · Uno · Go Fish · Let’s get together	· Put the story in order · Pick the correct word · Vocabulary strips · Phonics and rhyming · Bingo · Rewrite the story/ song · Sentence scramble · Story time · What’s missing? · Color reading · Baskin Robbins · 사목 놀이 · Kaboom · Dice game · Telepathy · Nunchi · Find the mistake · Four corners · Board game	· Dictation · Crossword · Filling out a chart · Cloze activities / Fill in the blank · Tracing the word · Make their own comic/ storybook · Spelling Bee game · Relay game /running dictation · Telepathy · Comic strip · Picture prompts · Word Lotto · Dictations · Sleeping elephants