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Cristina DumitruCarmen García Navarro

Elena Martín CabañasMarta Martin-Luengo Ruiz

ADVANTAGES: It is fun and easy. It does not require a great deal of preparation on the

part of the teacher. It is a good tool for learning vocabulary. Class size does not need to be a problem. There is no age barrier. It is very effective with teenagers and young learners.

DISADVANTAGES

• It is not a very creative method. Students are not given

the opportunity to express their own views and thoughts

in a creative way.

• It is easy to overuse TPR.

• It is limited, since everything cannot be explained with

this method. It must be combined with other approaches.

ACTIVITIES:

Simon Says GameThe School RaceTheatreAction Songs

SIMON SAYS GAME!1. The students are in front of a

wall.2. The teacher gives

instructions to the students. For example: “Simon says to put your hands in the air”.

3. They should follow the instructions, so they advance a step.

4. The students that follow all the instructions will win, because they reach the goal.

THE SCHOOL RACEWith “The Amazing Race” as one of the activities, the class will be racing to language acquisition.1. The teacher have to group the class into four or five teams. Each team have to be composed of three to four players. 2. The teacher gives the task to children verbally. For example, one task can be a “bring me” scenario and the teacher can tell the teams to bring him an yellow object. Or the class can shout their favorite color.3. They can go outside the classroom for this activity and have it in the schoolyard. The teacher tell to the students to bring in the garbage bins, pick up twenty dried leaves, arrange flower pots in a line, etc.

THEATRE• Your role as the teacher is to

narrate and move the story forward by telling the characters in front of the class what they need to do.

• First, you have to decide what your play will be. Knowing this, you have to decide also the number of characters, the nature of events in the story, their reactions to it and distribute de characters.

• The aim of this game is to practice listening and comprehension at the same time students have fun.

ACTION SONGSThis is a great memory-improving tool. You can create actions for any song that you want.1. Decide the important words in the song. 2. Choose the gestures for your words. There are obvious actions for some words like “jump”, “look”, etc. But when the song has words like “hope” or “integrity”, you should be creative. The gestures only need to be similarity of the thing they signify.3. Do the actions a little bit of exaggeration; it makes the lyrics of the song more interesting and vivid for your students. Don´t teach the song line by line. The objective here is to let the students understand what they are singing about.