Love Laughter and Learning in

the English Classroom

 What do we see in our students?

• Respond well to visual stimulus

• Great at multi tasking
• Think creatively
• More awareness
 What are we up against?

• Concentration span of 10 minutes

• Do not enjoy reading
• English is not important!
• Poor sense of real time
• Student need to SWRL every day in every
class
 Realia
• Kinesthetic learning
• A welcome change from reading and writing
• The unexpectedness interacting with real
objects
• Chance to practice real life situations
• Clearly understand the reason they’re learning
 Answering the phone

Eating out 5 o’ clock tea

Tell me about your family

Location location location

The job interview

Celebrate the holidays

What’s the weather like

today? Asking for directions
Scaffolding
 Eating clean
Going on a diet
Summer fresh food, exercise
What’s trending?
Winter – staying indoors and
Juicing and cleansing
eating more
rebooting system
Monsoon – avoid certain
Cutting carbs
foods, exercise?
Staying hydrated
Swimsuit season?
Following a meal plan
Seasons Daily dose of vitamins
Counting calories
Leading a
healthy Creating a plan
balanced
life Choosing the
Shopping smart right ingredient
Vegan or vegetarian
Organic
Farmer’s market
Sugar free
Health food store
Heart healthy
Organic section
High Fibre
Low fat
Superfoods
 Picture story/ Descriptions

Use the 5
senses
http://writingexercises.co.uk/random-images.php
Fruits Man Cane baskets Weather

brightly colored
brimming
buttery
Farm fresh
carefully selected
delectable
delicious
eco-friendly
exotic
Exquisite
firm
flavorful
fleshy
fragrant
fresh
fresh-picked
freshly harvested
freshly plucked
fruit-filled
hand-picked
luscious
 Structured summary
• Somebody] wanted…but…so…”
Somebody: Who is the main character of the story? This character’s
name can replace [Somebody] in the sentence above.

Wanted: What is the character’s motivation? (In other words, what

does he or she want?) This should come after the word “wanted.”

But: What stands in the way of the character and what he or she
wants? Put whatever it is after “but.”

So: What does the character do to overcome this obstacle? Follow

“so” with whatever they do.

Then: What happens after the character overcomes the obstacle

(how is everything resolved)?
• “Little Red Riding Hood wanted to visit her grandmother but
when she got there she found a wolf instead, so she yelled
for help and a passerby came to her rescue. Then everybody
lived happily ever after!”
 Story of my life

• start in the past and end in the future.

“Istarted playing the piano when I was five, but I

stopped only two years later. Right now I can’t play
anything, but I hope to start learning again in the
future.”
 How to……

You need to take off the paper sleeve the product was
bought in.
Then you need to make some holes in the plastic lid so
that the steam can escape
You should then put the product in the microwave and
cook it on full power for three minutes
The product will need to be left to stand for two
minutes before you cook it any more
After you have left it to stand you should stir to make
sure it cooks through.
Then you should cook the product for another three
minutes.
 A Blessing In Disguise:

A Slap on the Wrist:

A Leopard Can't Change His Spots:

Chip On Your Shoulder:

 'Take Three Nouns' Writing Prompt

One abstract and two concrete

evil
island
ice-cream

What's the Story About?

Some questions you could ask yourself:
1) Where?
2) How?
3) Why?
 Odd Objects
• A yellow kettle is on a beach.

A golden snowman is on a bus.

A colourful cushion is floating in space.

What is it doing there?

If it could talk to you, what would it say?
 News Headline

Sugar Rationed From Today

Missing Dog Turns Up After 2 Years

Snow Causes Chaos

Family Get Lost In Maze

Cinema Bans Local Kids

Thousands March To Save Trees

Girl Saved As She Falls Out Of Window

'Take Three Nouns' Writing
Prompt

Odd Object
News Headline
 Teaching prose
Break It Up
Questioning strategies

Class Discussion

Meaning in context
Retelling

Reference to context

Summarizing

Analyzing

Creating
 Questioning Strategies
• Questioning using Bloom’s Taxonomy
Knowledge:
Who was the biggest bear?
What food was too hot?
Comprehension:
Why didn't the bears eat the porridge?
Why did the bears leave their house?
Application:
List the sequence of events in the story. Evaluation:
Draw 3 pictures showing the beginning, middle Write a review for the story and
and ending of the story. specify the type of audience
that would enjoy this book.
Why has this story been told over and
Analysis: over again throughout
Why do you think Goldilocks went for a sleep? the years?
How would you feel if you were Baby Bear? Act out a mock court case as though
What kind of person do you think Goldilocks is the bears are taking
and why? Goldilocks to court
Synthesis:
How could you re-write this story with a city
setting?
Write a set of rules to prevent what happened
in the story.
 Strategies
• Journal writing
• Re-writing in another context
• Writing from a character’s viewpoint
• Changing the ending
• Critique
• Pre-listening activities
• While listening activities
• After listening activities
• Anyone can write poetry!!
 Diamantes
• They are 7 lines long
• The word count is simple: 1, 2, 3, 4, 3, 2, 1
• Your lines should have: noun, adjectives,
verbs, nouns, verbs, adjectives, noun
• Try to “center” your poem on the page to give
it a diamond shape
• Most importantly, have fun!
 Cat
Gentle, Sleepy
Purring, Meowing, Scratching
Whiskers, Fur, Collar, Leash
Barking, Licking, Digging
Slobbery, Playful
Dog
 Grammar Games

• Teaching grammar in context

• Don’t Over-Explain

• Incorporate Grammar into Other Activities

 Mad Lib
• It is an interactive story that you add words to.
When prompted, you insert a specific type of
word. Once all words are added, the story is
ready. The end story is usually quite funny.
It has often been said that "a dog is a man's best _______." Dogs

are very ________.and can be taught many ________

tricks. A dog can be trained to carry a _______.in his mouth.

And if you throw his ___________, he will run and fetch it. Dogs

will also bark ____________.if someone tries to break into your

____________.during the night. One of the most popular canine pets

today is the __________.Spaniel. Spaniels have curly _________

coats and ________.ears. They also have very___________

dispositions and live to be ___________.years old. Other popular dogs

are __________.Terriers, German ___________, and the

_____________.Poodle. Every home should have a loyal dog for a _______

Calvin told Hobb that……
Hobb asked…….
Calvin replied…..
And went on to say….
• 1. Learning English is mandatory. It’s not my
choice.
• 2. I get so embarrassed trying to speak
English in class. I feel ashamed.
• 3. It’s so boring! Grammar, worksheets, drills
….
• 4. Why learn English? I’ll never need it. I’ll
never use it. Anyway It will come
automatically once I take up a job!!
 Tactics
• Star charts and effort charts
• Set goals
• Progress markers
• Questionnaires
• Feedback sheets
• Personalise
• Look outside the classroom
• Think to the future