esl teaching tips
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ESL Teaching Tipsto Solve
Common ClassroomProblems
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Will you imagine if this happens in your class while teaching?
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Outline
ESL Lesson Planning Problems-Prep Time
-Finding Fresh Ideas
-Finishing a Lesson Early
-Unexpected Substitutions
-ESL Activities that are Falling Flat
-Mixed Levels In Class
Problems with Materials
-The ESL Textbook is Boring
-ESL Textbooks That Aren't a Good Fit
-Finding Materials
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ESL Students
-Students Look Bored Or Don't Seem Motivated
-Students can arrive late
-Students Don't Listen, or Keep Speaking Among
Themselves in Their Native Language
-Lecture Hall Setting And Large ESL Classes
-A student refuses to join in with games
because they seem silly
-Students who only want to study one aspect of English
-Traumatized Students
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ESL Lesson Planning Problems
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Prep Time
There are schools in Japan where English teachers get all of ten minutes to find out who their students are going to be in the lesson, and then prepare their activities. This is an extreme example, but there are few ESL English teachers who would not like to have a bit more planning time. While you can't add time to the day, you can make efficient use of the time you have.
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Finding Fresh Ideas
Keeping a file of language games for re-use is great, but it's just as important to find fresh ideas and ESL activities to keep classes fun. But where can we find ideas?
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Finishing a Lesson Early
Every now and then a lesson will go faster than you thought it would, leaving you with ten or fifteen minutes to fill. This can be a panicky moment if you don't have a backup plan.
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Unexpected Substitutions
Occasionally a colleague will become ill or have an emergency and you will have to cover an ESL class that would otherwise be left without a teacher. Sometimes you'll have a lesson plan to work form, sometimes you won't.
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ESL Activities that are Falling Flat
Probably the worst feeling in the world is watching an activity you've selected fall flat with your students. It happens to the best English teachers, and how you handle it is what makes the difference between success and failure for the overall lesson. How you handle it will depend on exactly what is going wrong.
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Mixed Levels In Class
You will probably never have a class where all the students are on the same language level in all skills.
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Problems with Materials
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The ESL Textbook is Boring
This is a fairly common problem, since no textbook is perfect and every textbook will probably bore at least some of your students some of the time. This is when you start digging out alternative ESL materials and activities.
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ESL Textbooks That Aren't a Good Fit
Sometimes you will have an ESL textbook that is just too hard or too easy, or simply so out of date that it isn't appealing to students.
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Finding Materials
Money and location can both limit your access to materials. There are ways around both these problems, however.
Talk to other ESL teachers and find out what they are doing. This is probably the single most helpful thing you can do. Don't limit yourself to other English teachers. Content classes often have materials and realia that are wonderful for ESL and EFL lessons.
Join a blog on ESL teaching tips and share with teachers there. Here is a teaching tips blog: http://teachingenglishgames.blogspot.com/
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More materials log on…
Sites to Link Description
www.chantyta.blogspot.comVarious interesting things for everyone – more than
you expect!
http://englishwithjennifer.wordpress.com/A blog for teacher, focusing on methodology,
strategies, and classroom activities
http:// www.developingteachers.com/A site for developing language teachers with
teaching tips, lesson plans and articles
http://www.eslflow.com/ ESL Lesson plans and Ideas for teachers
http://www.col-ed.org/cur/lang.html#lang2Language arts lesson plans by Columbia Education
Center
http://dreamingenglish.blogspot.com/A blog of an ESL teacher with a lot of lesson plans,
teaching tips, professional development ideas, reading materials...
http://newteacherresourcecenter.com/An online new teacher support site with information
on lesson plans, learning styles and many issues faced by new ESL teachers
http://www.esl-lab.com/Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab. Listen to
everyday conversations with adults and Children’s voice
http://www.englishlistening.comListen to real people talking real English from easy
listening to advanced listening passages
http://www.youtube.com/user/Jennifer ESL?gl=ES&hl=en-GB
Online English lessons (videos) for learners and teachers of English by an experienced ESL
teacher
http://stonesoup.com/Magazine by young writers and artists (8-13):reading and listening to young writers and
artists’ essays
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http://www.awesomestories.comA place for stories, materials, lesson plans to
enhance extensive reading
http://www.achievement.org/
The American Academy of Achievement online resource: written interviews, inspiring life stories of eminent achievers of our time,
transcripts, audio of insightful discussions with Academy members
http://www.thisibelieve.org/A public dialogue about belief: reading and listening
to inspiring essays discussing about life
http://www.betteratenglish.com A site for English learners, various materials
http://www.urch.com/forums/Test Magic Forum: students discussing about English
tests
http://www.englishtips.org/
This virtual library brings English textbooks including teacher books, student books, audio material
and other learning materials to your fingertips. Subscribe to this website to receive weekly
newsletters and download books, audio CDs, DVDs all for free
http://www.americanrhetoric.com Interesting speeches made by famous people
http://www.musicalenglishlessons.com/ Various activities to use music in English lessons
http://focusenglish.com/A website focuses on developing ESL/EFL learners’
conversational English skills
http://www.englishmedialab.com/English Grammar exercises, Video lessons, Quizzes,
Vocabularies Exercises
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish
BBC learning English
http://edition.cnn.com/studentnews CNN Students News
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/students/ The New York Times Students Connections
www.futureme.orgA magic site where you sent your today’s mail and
you’ll get it back after around 3 months
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Problems with ESL Students
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Students Look Bored Or Don't Seem Motivated
Activities that fall flat were discussed above, but sometimes it isn't
the ESL activity that is the problem. Sometimes it's the students' attitude. It's important to find out why the students are in class.
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Students can arrive late
This can be really disruptive if you aren't prepared
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Students Don't Listen, Speaking Among Themselves in Their Native Language
This always happens to an extent, but you can't let it take over the class.
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Lecture Hall Setting And Large ESL Classes
Sometimes your classroom isn't a good setting for practising conversation or games, or the class just seems too big.
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A student refuses to join in with games because they seem silly
There will always be students who think games are beneath them.
Clearly demonstrate the purpose of the game and show through the demonstration that it is a more effective way of learning.
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Students who only want to study one aspect of English
conversation or reading or writing If the class is meant to be a well rounded
class, rather than specifically a class focused on a single skill, then try using games and activities that integrate more than one skill at a time, like shopping games, sentence relays, and role-plays.
Demonstrate to the student that most uses of English integrate all the skills you are studying in class. Role-plays and videos can provide evidence of this.
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Traumatized Students
If you have students who have been recently traumatized due to war or political upheavals in their home countries, it is best to steer clear of any games that rely on personal information.
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Conclusion
Lesson planning – helps teacher know where to start and where to finish the lesson. A good teacher must have an explicit lesson.
Teaching materials – Not all books are suitable for students. Hence, a teacher needs to choose interesting topics or materials for the students.
ESL students – read the students like a book trying to understand what their needs are and what their expectation is. REMEMBER you teach the students NOT the textbook.
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Make yourself like water – Be flexible
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