Workshop for English Teachers: Add fun to your classes !

Exercises that can be adapted from elementary to upper intermediate level

1) English isn’t too far away from us: Words students already know

2) Working with Flash Cards

3)Teach your students to do listenings gradually: (e.g : sounds of animals)

Selective Listening:

Identify the people who are talking

Identify the topic
Identify the place where the conversation takes place
Complete the chart, list.. etc

Story Telling

4) Activities with Vocabulary (can be adapted to every level)

Crosswords
Jumbled Words
Mimics : e.g. Guess the animal
Pictionary
Simon Says
Guess Who ?
I can see...

Pre-Intermediate and up:

5) Listening + Imagination (Vocabulary – Verb Tenses):

Working with sounds

Sequences of sounds
Music + Imagination
(listening, speaking, writing, reading)

6) Speaking, Writing + Imagination: Group Techniques:

Activities to enhance comunication

Techniques to encourage students to know each other better.
Techniques to make sure everyone works.
Techniques to develope and improve language fluency, imagination

ETC...

Lic. Gabriela Vargas.

Techniques for groups:

Describe a drawing. Directions

Role Playing: congelamiento , doblaje
Draw a character. Gather up and make a short story with the characters
Guess Who ?
What do I know about..
Test de Fluidez Ideacional
Give them vocabulary. They have to use it while they talk. Each time they make a mistake
you give them another one.

Working With Sounds:

Listen to sounds. Evoque them. Make a short story

Stevie Wonder’s theme
Music + pictures

2) Working with Flash Cards

Make flash cards with your students
What can we do with them?
Vocabulary
Grammar : What is it ?
Is it a ... ?
Guessing game: It is.. It has got.. It can ...

3)Teach your students to do listenings gradually:

Make a list of animals with your students.

Read the list
Sounds of animals: Put a tick in their list.
Sounds of animals: Number them in their list.
Evoque them
Make a short story with them
Read the list aloud
Play the names of the animals . Tick them
Order them

Polimodal: who? What? Where ? Make a Quiz . Write a Quiz

ETC...
CONSIGNAS FOR THE TEACHERS:

Listening and Imagination: Choose a piece of music that would describe how you felt
during the workshop.

Jumbled Words: Make a paragraph describing how you felt during the workshop
Make a paragraph analysing how these techniques would help you (or not) with your