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Sharing my experience of teaching young learners’ Δράμπα Σουζάνα 20 ο Δημ. Σχολείο Σερρών- ΕΑΕΠ 2011-2012

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Page 1: Sharing my experience of teaching

‘Sharing my experience of teaching young learners’

Δράμπα Σουζάνα20ο Δημ. Σχολείο Σερρών-ΕΑΕΠ

2011-2012

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What are a “washing-line” , some hats and a train doing

in a classroom?

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The “ washing-line” activities !

Ice-breaking activities • Questions you want to ask your students on

the first day• Students write questions they would like to

ask their classmates• Suggesting favourite topics for discussion,

ideas for projects etc.• BINGO GAME

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Activities for advanced Primary students•Reading Comprehension questions•True or False sentences•Dictation (give the explanation/ definition and ask for the word) (make sentences with the word)•Divide into groups by hanging the names of 4-5 (depending on the number of students and groups you want to form)animals or nationalities etc.•MATCHING activities (English proverbs/Countries-Capitals, two halves of sentences etc.)•Complete sentences: “I like…” “Two days ago…” “ I’ve never…”•Assigning Projects (6th Grade/Unit 1 Project)•Hang our projects

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Just for Fun Scrambled words

GAME “Find the word”

Even after or before class encourage them to hang

• Questions directed to the teacher• Classroom rules• New Year Resolutions• “I believe or I think “ sentences about a topic (Environment,

Violence in schools etc.) to raise self-esteem• Brainstorming (give the topic of the next Unit or Lesson

and they can find, bring to class and hang words on the “washing-line”

• Writing their opinion and feelings about lesson or activities

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Activities for younger students

•Introduce new Vocabulary•Revise Vocabulary•Group Vocabulary (colours, animals,food words, school objects)•Learn songs (The colour song, The clothes song)•Hang their drawings•Hang things to remember like healthy food flashcards or recycling packages•“English around us” corner with whatever cut-outs of English words they can find

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“Colourful Speaking Hats”

Made for a school show and then left forgotten in a dark storeroom for three whole years! Found after cleaning up the storeroom. 2 seconds before given for recycling they started to speak English. Saved at the very last moment ,

they have proved to be very useful to me and my students

We have used them to learn, play with and sing the colours.We have used them to tidy our teacher’s desk and

unscramble her piles of flashcards putting them in the right hat-red for toys, blue for school objects, green for food, brown for animals etc.

They are magic! Whoever wears one of them can speak English!

Then our teacher took them to other higher classes to help those students speak English too!

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•Choose two words from two hats and form a sentence or a question to your classmates

•Put words in order

•Produce speech using a word from one hat

•Form groups according to the colour of the hat which the leader of the group wears

•Guess “What have I got in my hand?” “Is it…?” “Does it…?”

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The writing train(3rd grade 9 year-old students)

Our own “writing train”! A train carries people and goods.

Our train carries words but not any words.Words which hide our feelings and thoughts and dreams!

Now writing is our favourite task!

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What do a “washing-line”, some hats and a train have in common?

I feel they have turned my classroom into a fun , motivating, colourful environment and the teaching and learning process different, fun and interesting for my students, satisfactory and fulfilling for me as a teacher.

THANK YOU